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Dealing with creative logos, this collection aims to lift human experience into spirit and culture. In it, the momentum of a gathering "creative brainstorm" leads to the vertiginous imaginative transformability of the creative logos as it ciphers through the elements of experience - sensing, feeling, emotions, forming - in works of art

In den letzten Jahrzehnten ist man zunehmend darauf aufmerksam geworden, dass Ästhetik als Lehre von der Wahrnehmung ihre medialen Bedingungen mit bedenken muss. Demgegenüber lässt sich aber auch eine Haltung einnehmen, die versucht, ästhetische Phänomene als emergente Sinnformen zu analysieren, ohne sie auf ihre medientechnischen Voraussetzungen zurückzuführen. Unter den in diesem Band versammelten medien-, literatur- und theaterwissenschaftlichen Beiträgen finden sich beiderlei Perspektiven wieder, wobei verschiedene Autorinnen und Autoren den Schwerpunkt auf die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Werk Walter Benjamins legen. So spiegelt das Buch, der Anlage einer Festschrift entsprechend, die facettenreichen Forschungsinteressen Burkhardt Lindners wider.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1: THE MEDIA AND BODY IMAGE -- CHAPTER 2: BUILDING STRONG RELATIONSHIPS -- CHAPTER 3: EATING DISORDERS AND SELF-HARM -- CHAPTER 4: HEALTHY LIFESTYLES -- CHAPTER 5: SUCCESS AND SELF CONFIDENCE -- GLOSSARY -- FOR MORE INFORMATION -- FOR FURTHER READING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Back Cover

This paper explores analytical and stylistic tools in the discourse of modernist literature as epitomized in three canonical works of three influential modernist literary figures: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot and Samuel Beckett. The paper shows how, upon meditation on the lived reality of Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, modernist literature writers resort to fragmented language, mythical usages, and nonlinear structures to respond to the much ravaging and grotesque events witnessed by the world in general and Europe in particular in this epoch. Reflecting the compartmentalized and Balkanized reality of the world through its dazzling stylistic and figurative innovations, modernist literature sought to shock audiences, to lead bare the inconsistency of the human condition. This goes in parallel with an emerging philosophy that turned conventions upside down in different domains: ethics and morals, religion, history, economy, politics, aesthetics, arts, and language among others.

Marc Redfield maintains that the literary genre of the Bildungsroman brings into sharp focus the contradictions of aesthetics, and also that aesthetics exemplifies what is called ideology. He combines a wide-ranging account of the history and theory of aesthetics with close readings of novels by Goethe, George Eliot, and Gustave Flaubert. For Redfield, these fictions of character formation demonstrate the paradoxical relation between aesthetics and literature: the notion of the Bildungsroman may be expanded to apply to any text that can be figured as a subject producing itself in history, which is to say any text whatsoever. At the same time, the category may be contracted to include only a handful of novels, (or even none at all), a paradox that has led critics to denigrate the Bildungsroman as a phantom genre.

"This book explores the ways the narration of the nation in popular literatures, film, and television gives rise to various public discourses of contemporary China, and defines social subjects such as intellectuals, netizens, media elites, and state-sponsored filmmakers. It argues that these subjects have, to varying degrees, transformed the state project of modernization into their own through mass aestheticization of the nation, whereby postsocialist politics is contingent upon and performative through national aesthetics. By analyzing cultural products from a wide range of media, including the Internet, this book sheds light on the historical significance of nationalism for mass imagination and identification in the less-than-democratic system of China for the past three decades. "--