Vol. 47, No. 4, Winter 2024 [Supplement]
SPECIAL ISSUE – Design and its Relations
Guest Editor: Michalle Gal (Professor of Philosophy, Shenkar College, Israel)
- Michalle Gal – Introduction
- Gal Ventura – Design and the Modern Crib: Hygiene, Configuration, Materiality, and Social Status
- Jane Forsey – Design and Beauty: Functional Style
- Michalle Gal – Design and Rationalism: A Visualist Critique of Instrumental Rationalism
- Saul Fisher – Design Science and Aesthetics
- Jeffrey Strayer – Design and Abstraction
- Thomas Leddy – Design and Definitions: Reflections on the Question of “What is Design?”
- Matilde Carrasco Barranco – Design and Aesthetic Appreciation: Form, Functionality, Performativity
- Pauline von Bonsdorff – Design and Tacit Aesthetics: Design as the Art of Objects-in-Use
- Panos Paris – Design and Value: The Ethical Nature of Beautiful Design
- Yanai Toister – Design and Photography: Pinhole, Perpendicular, Programmatic
- Gregory Galford and Jeremy Barris – Design and the Constitution of Semantic or Conceptual Meaning
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ARTICLES
- Shobha Elizabeth John – “Poet, be seated at the piano”: The Imperative of Change and the Sounds of Music in the Poems of Wallace Stevens
- Abhirupa Roy – The Correspondence Between City and its Margin in the Jewish Novels of Isaac Goldemberg and Mario Szichman
- Felicia A. Soskin – Post-colonialism in Allende’s Daughter of Fortune and Murakami’s Norwegian Wood
- Justina Šumilova – Intersections and Divergences in Writing: Exploring Rhizomatic and Fragmentary Writing
- Sharanya DG – “There Will Be No Seepage, No Bleeding”: Play with Form and Language in Contemporary Narratives of Violence
- Pallavi Singh and Dhara Chotai – A Tale of a Cabinet Obscene: Tailoring the Kehbi
- Md Asif Uzzaman – National Imagination and Postnational Condition: Autobiography and the Shaping and Reshaping of Indian Political Discourse
- Ananya Dutta – Spaces in Partition Fiction as Sites of Memory-History
- Keerthana Swaminathan – Between Menarche and Mobility: Locating Gender in the Works of Hephzibah Jesudasan and Salma
- Kiranpreet Kaur Baath – Revisiting Oral Travel Narratives and the Egyptian Circumnavigation of Africa: A Decolonial Approach
- Yashvi Srivastava – No Shortcuts to Posthuman Utopia: Religion, Technology, and Society in The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh
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SPECIAL ISSUES
- Translation & Philosophy: Disciplines in Need of Dialogue
- Gnosis and Esotericism in Speculative Fiction
- 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.