Vol. 48, No. 2, Summer 2025 [Regular Issue]
ARTICLES
- David Fenner – Gardening as Artistic Practice
- Shobha Elizabeth John – “Poet, be seated at the piano”: The Imperative of Change and the Sounds of Music in the Poems of Wallace Stevens
- Usha Chandran – Nora’s Travel to Asia: Finding the Asian ‘Nora’ in Lu Xun’s ‘Zi Jun’ and Tagore’s ‘Mrinal’
- 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
BOOK REVIEWS
- Sreya Mukherjee – Colonialism, World Literature, and the Making of the Modern Culture of Letters. By Baidik Bhattacharya. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 302 pp.
- Michael Barr – Narrative and Ethical Understanding. By Garry L. Hagberg (Ed.). London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. 354 pp.
- Syed Shamil Bokhari – Seeing More: Kant’s Theory of Imagination. By Samantha Matherne. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 448 pp.
- Syed Shamil Bokhari – A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity. By Michael A. Cook. NY: Princeton University Press, 2024. 960 pp.
- Syed Shamil Bokhari – The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism, and the Fate of Philosophy. By Robert B. Pippin. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2024. 256 pp.
- Arun Kumar Pokhrel – Beyond Hostile Islands: The Pacific War in American and New Zealand Fiction Writing. By Daniel McKay. New York: Fordham University Press, 2024. 240 pp.
- Kiran Raveendran – Modern Indian Literature as Cosmopolis: Conversations with Hanuman. By Didier Coste. New Delhi: Routledge India, 2024. 324 pp.
- Sylvia Borissova – Singularities: Essays in Aesthetics. By Aaron Ridley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 288 pp.
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SPECIAL ISSUES
- Translation & Philosophy: Disciplines in Need of Dialogue
- Art and Imagination: Philosophical Issues
- 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.