Vol. 48, No. 3, Autumn 2025 (Regular Issue)
ARTICLES
- Saam Trivedi – Anandavardhana on Literary Suggestion
- Michael H. Mitias – The Beautiful in Fine Art
- Stefan Snævarr – Models in Novels
- Per Bjørnar Grande – Triangular Desire in Jane Austen’s Novels
- Joshua M. Hall – Death-Defying Indigenous Dance: “Palest-Indian” Solidary Love
- Justina Šumilova – Intersections and Divergences in Writing: Exploring Rhizomatic and Fragmentary Writing
- Alberto Gabriele – Fragmented Impressionism and the Visual Translatio of History in the Literary and Artistic Experiments of the Romantic Castle
- Rocío Moyano Rejano – Ekphrasis and Intermediality: Evolving Theories from Humanistic Tradition to Twenty-First Century Aesthetics
- Pijus Kanti Pal and Snigdha Mondal – From Āsurī Nature to Daivī Nature: Sri Aurobindo’s Interpretation of the Gītā in light of Classical Exegesis
- Amit Kumar Rath – (Im)personation and (Im)morality: Investigating the Pramāṇa of Artificial Integrity in Naomi Kritzer’s “Cat Pictures Please”
- Xia Zhao and Riping Liao – Storied Matter: The Vietnamese Jungle as War Narrator in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried
- Muskan Kaur – The Three Modes of Conversion: Defending Hume’s Solution to the Paradox of Tragedy
- Santanu Sarkar – Beyond Fidelity: Reimagining Narrative Adaptation in Contemporary Media
- Arnab Das – Aesthetic Matrices of Decay and Transcendence in Jeet Thayil’s Narcopolis
- Shivangi Singh and Hemachandran Karah – Shattering Silence: Trauma, Care, and Resistance in Gayathri Prabhu’s If I Had to Tell It Again: A Memoir
- Atef Al-Khawaldeh and Wasfi Shoqairat – Reincarnation as a Transcultural Motif in Edgar Allan Poe’s “Ligeia” and Khalil Gibran’s “Ashes of Generations and the Eternal Fire”
BOOK REVIEWS
- Charles Altieri – All in All (More or Less): Rhetorical Considerations in Literature, Thought, and Experience. By Walter Jost. UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. 649 pp.
- Ankit Rath – The Philosophy of Worship: Divine and Human Aspects. By Aaron Segal and Samuel Lebens (Eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 345 pp.
- Alessio Porrino – Foucault’s Aesthetics of Existence and Shusterman’s Somaesthetics: Ethics, Politics, and the Art of Living. By Valentina Antoniol and Stefano Marino (Eds.). London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. 208 pp.
- Adil Hussain – Overdetermined: How Indian English Literature Becomes Ethnic, Postcolonial, and Anglophone. By Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2025. 336 pp.
- Syed Shamil Bukhari – Gadamer on Art and Aesthetic Experience: Rethinking Hermeneutical Aesthetics Today. By Stefano Marino and Elena Romagnoli (Eds.). New York: State University of New York Press, 2025. 208 pp.
- Syed Shamil Bukhari – Transcending Postmodernism: Performatism 2.0. By Raoul Eshelman. UK: Routledge, 2025. 228 pp.
- Paul Doolan – Gandhi, Truth, and Nonviolence: The Politics of Engagement in Post-Truth Times. By Vinay Lal (Ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. 368 pp.
- Muskan Kaur – Kant and Literary Studies. By Claudia Brodsky (Ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 346 pp.
- Pankaj Kumar Verma – Speaking with Nature: The Origins of Indian Environmentalism. By Ramachandra Guha. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2024, 407 pp.
- Anusha Hegde – Culture’s Futures: Science Fiction, Form and the Problem of Culture. By Eric Aronoff. UK: Palgrave MacMillan, 2025. 291 pp.
- Anusha Hegde – Feminist Literature as Everyday Use: New Materialist Methodologies for Critical Thinking. By Beatriz Revelles-Benavente. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 192 pp.
- Anusha Hegde – Return of the Gods: Mythology in Romantic Philosophy and Literature. By Owen Ware. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. 280 pp.
- Omotayo Jemiluyi – The Problem of God in Buddhism. By Signe Cohen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 74 pp.
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Vol. 48, No. 4, Winter 2025
SPECIAL ISSUE – Reimagining the Ocean: The Blue Humanities in French and Francophone Studies
Guest Editors: Keith Moser (Mississippi State University, USA) and Isaac Joslin (Arizona State University, USA)
- Isaac Joslin – Introduction
- Julia Frengs – Coral Souls: Think-Feeling with the Ocean in Denis Pourawa’s Ton âme corail
- John Walsh – A Call for Justice in Ma’ohi Nui [French Polynesia]: The Post-Climate Change Imaginary of Mourareau’s Méridien Zéro and Maeva nulle part
- Chadia Chambers-Samadi – A Seabird’s Messages to the Blue Humanities: The Frigatebird, Steward of Water, Land and Cultures
- Jonathan Krell – Sibylle Grimbert’s Le Dernier des siens: Imagining the Solitude of the Last Great Auk
- Filippo Menozzi and Emily Cuming – Fanon’s Ship’s Journals: The Logbook of Decolonisation
- J. Ariane Ngabeu – Migration, Water, and the Human Condition in Laurent Gaudé’s Eldorado
- Anne-Sabine Nicolas – Fatou Diome’s Belly of the Atlantic: A Chronotope at Sea
- Anne Quinney – Rolling in the Deep: Mati Diop’s Atlantic Histories
- Sigy Ghosh – Maritime Resistance and Island Identity in Asterix in Corsica: A Blue Humanities Perspective
- Peter Russella – The Lighthouses on Victor Hugo’s Sea/Shore
- Jacqueline Moulton – Becoming Ocean: Mourning-with as Multiplicitous Weaving and Becoming-with In-trouble Oceans
- Keith Moser – Thinking Blue Through Somatic Encounters with the Universe in Michel Serres’s Philosophy
- Notes on Contributors
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MORE SPECIAL ISSUES
- Art, Imagination, and Affect
- A Festschrift for Peter Lamarque
- Aesthetics and Leisure: Historical, Intercultural, and Theoretical Perspectives
- (De)Bordering Aesthetics: 19th-Century German Philosophy and the Migratory Turn
- Art and Emotion: Philosophical Engagements with Painting
- Understanding and Enjoyment in Aesthetic Experience
- Perspectives in Contemporary Critical Theory
- Reception of Sanskrit Studies in the 19th-century European Ideology
- Painting and Poetry: New Accents
The Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics publishes special volumes on themes of current critical interest and contemporary relevance. Some of the special issues published in the past include “Deconstruction in Contemporary Criticism” (1985), “Representation in Contemporary Criticism” (1986), “Frankfurt School of Aesthetics” (1988), “Prague School of Structuralism” (1991), “Indian Aesthetics and Contemporary Theory” (1992), “Italian Aesthetics since Croce” (1993), “Aesthetics Today” (1994), “Environmental Aesthetics” (1995), etc. The Journal welcomes proposals for possible special issues at any time.