The Aesthetic Structure of Jean Toomer's Cane

1975 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Michael Krasny
2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-27
Author(s):  
Maria Elena Ramos ◽  

The inclusion of ethics and politics into artistic creation process is for many contemporary creators/artists an essential motivation while they consciously act in an aesthetic space polluted with the realities of a world in crisis. Art, which produces visible and sensible forms, can reveal aesthetic ideas and fundaments through aesthetic objects: drawing, video-installing or poem/poetry. And artists can make someone feel with their creations—whether these are beautiful, sublime, tragic, or ironic—ethical contentions violated by human action or the exertion/exercise of political power. Works of art that are not only guided by the categories signed by beauty, because in artistic languages, violence and suffering also make/create form. And times of crisis are the ideal sphere/dimension for an art that gives a vivid way of seeing/watching the uncertainty, the perversion, the terrible. In bringing these philosophical—ethical, aesthetic and political—topics, I do it from an approach that departs form artistic creations and curatorial research. I try to penetrate the narrow thread between an ethical topic and the plastic form in which it incarnates/embodies itself, or between a political action and the aesthetic structure of language as a creative, expressive consequence.


2019 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-180
Author(s):  
Florian Mehltretter

The encomiastic efficiency of Ariosto’s tale of Ruggiero and Bradamante in the Orlando furioso could be questioned on the grounds of inconsistency with tradition, fictionality and irony. A glance at other instances of panegyrics, notably in music, as well as an analysis of the moon scene in Ariosto’s epic (canto 35) show, however, that these techniques engender a specific brand of ambiguity that neither cancels nor overemphasizes the intended praise of the dedicatee, but serves to adjust the volume of the encomiastic discourse in order to steer clear of mere flattery. At the same time, by inscribing a specific model reader, Ippolito d’Este (who has to understand this special type of praise), into a text that was to be printed – and thus intended for a general reader – the Orlando furioso transposes part of the pragmatic hors-texte into the aesthetic structure of the poem. Hence, panegyrics can be regarded as a fine art.


2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takahashi Tomoyo ◽  
Shinji Kitagami
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