From Prose to Picture: Critical Reflections on the Road and the Journey in John Steinbeck’s and John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath by Beatrice Melodia Festa

“…However, the film adaptation has been more frequently analyzed for its thematic content than appreciated for its visual aesthetics, likely due to its connection with Ford’s established cinematic legacy and its alignment with the broader corpus of works addressing the socio-economic struggles of Depression-era America. …”
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Management and sustainability of ground-mounted solar parks requires consideration of vegetation succession as an omnipresent process by Markus Zaplata

“…In addition to the aspects of power generation, land use, aesthetics, nature conservation, and multifunctionality considered so far, there are still overlooked issues in the relatively new topic of solar landscapes. …”
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In Search of Lost Weather: Temporal Reflexivity and Ecological Awareness in Participatory Performance by Jamie Harper

“…This proposition is developed with reference to Spinoza’s theory of affects which suggests that being driven by the affects of the present can render the human body passive. An alternative aesthetics of temporal reflexivity is presented through discussion of participatory performance projects using live action role-play drama that were designed and facilitated by the author during 2017-2018. …”
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Dattilogrammatica. Il "typewriter poem" come paradigma dell'immagine "informazionale" sulla scorta di Paul Valéry, Leo Steinberg, Walter Benjamin, Max Bense by Marcello Sessa

“…And then to the Walter Benjamin of the reproducible, edited, anti-auratic image; it would also pass through the technological aesthetics of Max Bense, which arose in conjunction with concrete poetry. …”
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Myth-making and History: The Visual Transformation of Boadicea in Eighteenth-Century History Books by Isabelle Baudino

“…The reinterpretation of her character owed much to the development of neoclassical aesthetics. Artists like John Opie, Thomas Stothard or Robert Smirke reimagined Boadicea draped in classical garb, thus ennobling her character. …”
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The Postdigital as Theme in Narrative Fiction across Media by Alice Bell

“…Taking examples from print and digital fiction, I show how a postdigital perspective can manifest both thematically and aesthetically in fiction and argue that there is an increasing prevalence of postdigital ethics in narrative fiction across media.…”
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There and Back Again by Owen Hopkins

“…The essay argues that the polarised and asymmetrical nature of this debate, conflating questions of aesthetics, typology and planning and tenure type, is typical of populist politics, ensuring a middle ground is by definition impossible. …”
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Staging Atmospheres: Editorial introduction to the first volume by Chloé Déchery, Martin Welton

“…Similarly, what lessons should theatre and performance take from the considerable efforts within the atmosphere studies to address its own affects, aesthetics, and environments?…”
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Féerie pour un scandale : l’art et la morale dans Lolita (1958) de Vladimir Nabokov by Jacques Sohier

“…Nabokov himself, the writer affirms his aesthetics and claims that his novel has no moral in tow. …”
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Silvopastoral systems as a strategy for drought resilience: A short international review by Mohammad Reza Ghaffariyan

“…Some of the environmental benefits include aesthetics, water quality, improvement, soil conservation, carbon sequestration, biodiversity and fuel reduction. …”
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Les études de Sergio Cigada, jalons incontournables de la critique flaubertienne by Liana Nissim

“…As it is a founding work that, for the first time in the history of Flaubertian criticism, achieves a global study of Flaubert’s aesthetics exhibiting both a powerful unity and a detailed and comprehensive expression. …”
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Le théâtre baroque du corps démembré dans The Duchess of Malfi by Line Cottegnies

“…The play is haunted by body parts, at the levels of both plot and imagery. This peculiar aesthetics can be seen as a symptom of a worldview in crisis, in which the correspondences and analogies that had held the world together until then have ceased to operate—as the metaphor of an organic political body no longer holds the society together and the age-old analogy between the microcosm of the human body and the macrocosm of the cosmos no longer signifies the unity of the created universe. …”
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The Precarious Balance of Refugees: Rupture and Connectivity in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West (2017) and Helon Habila’s Travelers (2019) by Vanessa Guignery

“…This paper explores the precarious balance between a poetics of rupture and an aesthetics of connectivity in two novels about refugees: Exit West (2017) by Mohsin Hamid and Travelers (2019) by Helon Habila. …”
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A usability analysis of e-commerce systems: Prestashop, Magento and Joomla by Marcin Wijaszka, Mariusz Dzieńkowski

“… This article focuses on the analysis of available open-source e-commerce systems in terms of their usability in the context of factors such as website consistency, interactivity, interface memorability and the level of aesthetics. The study compares the Prestashop, Magento, and Joomla with the HikaShop module. …”
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Idololatria Vilnensis: The Confessional Debates of Jesuits and Protestants on Sacred Images in the 16th Century Lithuania by Tomas Riklius

“…Wolan’s critique, while rooted in theology, also touched on the Renaissance humanist perspective on aesthetics to question the sensual appeal of Catholic sacred art. …”
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The Humour and Novelty of Congwayndut Puppet Group: An Overview of Performance Studies by Gendot Dekanipa, Aris Setiawan

“…The improvisation even provides the aesthetics of its puppet performance. The key aspect of humour and novelty in the Congwayndut is positioned at the role strategy of entul and trickster. …”
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Design of a Modern Car Parking at the Faculty of Engineering, Technology Applied Design And Fine Art. by Akampurira, Jobathie

“…The activities include the following, Introduction of car parking, background, parking areas type, problem statement, Problem statement, Objectives of Project, Main objective, Specific objective, Scope of Project, Scope of Project, Significance, chapter 2: literature review, Related Work, Parking Design Consideration, Needs Analysis, Parking study, Parking Requirement Factor, Physical Requirement, Aesthetics and Safety, chapter 3: methodology, Introduction of Methodology, Design Methodologies, Bench Marking, Data collection, Observation Method, Design using Architecture, Plan Design, Architectural drawings, Arch CAD, Tools Use, Materials, Procedure for Making the Design Model of Car Parking, chapter results and discussion, chapter 5: conclusion, recommendations and skilled acquired, Skills acquired,Challenges faced during the project plan design, Recommendations, Conclusion, References, Pavement design for concrete parking lots. …”
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Grodek (1914) – le testament poétique de Georg Trakl by Natalia Teuber-Terrones

“…What especially defines modern poetry is the distance and destruction of traditional aesthetics and forms and in this context, literary theory must find its origins other than in aesthetic and formal characteristics, which means that the theory must find a deeper universal way to define why poetry is precisely poetry.…”
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Perbandingan Visualisasi Motif Kalpataru pada Berbagai Candi Peninggalan Mataram Kuno Abad 8-10 Masehi by Herliyana Rosalinda, Nurulfatmi Amzy, Edo Galasro Limbong

“…As significant religious symbols, these temples embodied societal values and were constructed with meticulous attention to materials, architecture, and aesthetics. By chronologically comparing the Kalpataru motif in Hindu and Buddhist temples, this research explores its evolving meaning and form. …”
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Spectacular Bodies: Los Angeles Beach Cultures and the Making of the “California Look” (1900s-1960s) by Elsa Devienne

“…In parallel, consumer capitalism, aided by the rise of the beauty, exercise, and diet industries, transformed these local pursuits of health and fitness into a marketable lifestyle and coherent set of body aesthetics. Despite African-American, Asian, and Latino Angelenos’ continuing engagement with local beach cultures, national and popular culture representations of such trends systematically erased non-white bodies, thereby constructing the California look as a conspicuously white icon.…”
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