The Politics of Aesthetics: Ezra Pound’s Jefferson is Mussolini by Hélène Aji

“…Mainly focused on Jefferson and/or Mussolini and a comparative study of the American edition and its Italian translation Jefferson e Mussolini, this article considers the possibility of a Poundian perilous fascination for an aestheticized vision of politics, yoking together the conception of state and the construction of the poem, under similar demands of beauty and aesthetic elegance, at the expense of ethical imperatives.…”
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Le théâtre du Grand-Guignol et l’esthétique du féminicide by Rimpei Mano

“…This article examines the aestheticization of feminicide in the Grand-Guignol theatre. …”
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AN APPRAISAL OF THE 21ST CENTURY THROUGH BAUDRILLARD'S IDEAS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE INTERPLAY AMONG POLITICS, PHILOSOPHY, ORGANIZATIONS AND BEING HUMAN by Onur Kazancı, Aytaç Odacılar

“…The study will argue that the human being is a creature capable of aestheticization as the capacity to express something with the help of other things. …”
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La resistenza culturale nel Libano contemporaneo. Le sfide di artiste locali e profughe by Estella Carpi, Stefano Fogliata

“…This phenomenon generates in part a de-politicization and aestheticization of art, thus demobilizing the political verve behind cultural work and, at the same time, linking the material survival of such cultural spaces to cyclical humanitarian crises.…”
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L’esthétique au prisme de la trans‑caribéanité : Perspectives décoloniales sur l’art jamaïcain et martiniquais by Frédéric Lefrançois

“…Consequently, two opposite paths can be envisaged: to opt for unconscious scarring by way of oblivion, or to accept traumatic memory so as to aestheticize resistance against cultural genocide. In the French and English-speaking Caribbean, this dilemma has tormented the aesthetic consciousness of three successive generations of artists inheriting a traumatic bequeathal, like the Jewish artists-legatees of the Shoah. …”
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Butterflies, Orchids and Wasps. Polyglossia and Aesthetic Lives: Foreign Languages in The Spirit Lamp (1892-1893) by Xavier Giudicelli

“…The aim of this paper is to show that the polyglossia of The Spirit Lamp is an essential part of an aestheticization of life and the expression of otherwise unspeakable desires. …”
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Les quatre éléments dans « Karain » de Joseph Conrad : du mythe au manque by Catherine Delmas

“…The four elements first highlight the motif of human illusions and contribute to the symbolic function of the East ; they also serve a literary topos by enhancing the tragic muthos which is then immediately deconstucted ; the orientalist mode of representation is also called into question by impressionism, conveyed by fragmentation and the relativity of the point of view. The aestheticization of space in the orientalist painting clearly shows the decoy of representation and lets the reader have a glimpse of the reality of colonialism through the cracks of the painting. …”
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Distance without Remoteness: The Objectivist Poetics of Nonmimetic Pain by Xavier Kalck

“…In doing so, this article will show how all three attempted to produce accounts of, or to reflect upon, what had taken place in a way that would not allow for any forms of aestheticization and that would show extreme caution when engaging with readers’ sensitivities. …”
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‘Savages’ and Spiritual Engines: Feeling the Machine in H. G. Wells’s Time Machine and ‘Lord of the Dynamos’ by Tamara Ketabgian

“…Wells ironizes and aestheticizes these mechanical models of belief, both in his eponymous ‘time machine’ (1894–95) and in ‘The Lord of the Dynamos’ (1894), which restages Paley’s analogy with a ‘savage’ worshipping the industrial engine. …”
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De l’Esthétisation à l’anti-symbolisme : les évolutions du corps chez William Carlos Williams by Samantha Lemeunier

“…Therefore, the passage from aestheticized to anti-symbolic bodies in Williams’ work is based on both the stylistic and biographical evolutions of the author, making his writing the mirror of the living and evolving bodies of his period.…”
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FORCED HAPPINESS AS A MODERN SOCIO AND CULTURAL IMPERATIVE by H. V. Khodus

“…Such analytical optics enable reading of contemporary social reality as a discursive space that permeated with visual aestheticization of various emotions, legitimized with knowledge/power. …”
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‘Subtle Instrument of Music’: Translating the Sound and Appearance of Decadence in Wilde’s Salomé by Erin Dunbar

“…Through writing in French and, ‘In choosing to write his version of Salomé in the form of a play, Wilde rather archly extends the dynamics of the aestheticizing gaze and its struggle for perceptual authority out beyond the canvas of his art’ (Greger 50). …”
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