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Zadie Smith's autonomous writing commitments to E.M. Forster
2010
Though Zadie Smith has published only three novels so far, her fiction seems to follow some astonishing path from standard social commitment to the world to a more aesthetic and ideological commitment to Forster's Edwardian Howards End. In White Teeth Smith writes the story of today's multicultural London in a committed way, though soon enough her particular view of the past and its aftermath signals some tension between literature and history. The logic of chance and randomness provides a first hint of the autonomy of fiction for Smith: fiction allows the past and history “to have happened”. On Beauty may forget the world in the same ambiguous way as Howards End did, eventually more poetic…
‘Just keep on walking in a straight line': allowing for chance in Zadie Smith's overdetermined London (White Teeth, The Autograph Man and On Beauty)
2008
International audience; Zadie Smith's three novels signal a sullen yet coherent evolution in the representation of both real and fictional London. Each of the three texts reveals a threefold failure in the way the city can become the ideal place for the characters to know and fulfil themselves. London is first a mere topographical and cultural gridlock: its neighbourhoods are overdetermined in a way that leads to the negation of the individual, leaving no space for action and banning any type of self-improvement. Yet Smith's London in White Teeth is not as coded as often claimed, and may provide some tools to pervert this conditioning of places and people. The novels indeed examine the dyna…
Architettura
2015
L’architettura, fin dalle origini è stata un’arte ancipite, ancorata tanto alla sfera dell’utile (con le sue derivazioni funzionaliste, propugnate in varia misura dai teorici del Movimento Moderno) tanto a quella del bello (che in casi estremi approda a quelle forme di architettura/scultura in cui la destinazione d’uso si annulla nell’esperienza estetica). Questo numero della “Rivista di estetica” vuole fare il punto sullo stato attuale del dibattito, in area analitica e continentale, mettendo a fuoco gli interrogativi che la società oggi pone all’architettura. Nuove problematiche legate alla globalizzazione, all’ecologia, al paesaggio e alla salvaguardia dell’ambiente, richiedono l’interve…
Piękno w poezji chińskiej a poeci polscy
2018
The aim of the article is to present differences between the understanding of the concept of beauty in the Eastern and Western cultures. The author analyses creativity of the Polish poets who translated selected Chinese texts. She analyses also poetry that undertakes themes and motifs characteristic for Chinese poetry and connected with landscape, motifs of moon and grass. Representation of the elements of nature in the creativity of the Chinese classics is compared with works of Tadeusz Różewicz, Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, Julian Tuwim and Halina Poświatowska. Beauty, however differently defined in various cultures, often assumes similar forms.
Kanony kobiecego piękna fizycznego w reklamie telewizyjnej i internetowej
2016
Niniejsze opracowanie dotyczy kobiecego piękna w aspekcie fizycznym w reklamie telewizyjnej i internetowej, a także tożsamości kobiety w popkulturze. Analizowane wizerunki bohaterek wybranych komunikatów zostały podzielone na dwa typy: kobieta zwyczajna (w tym gospodyni domowa i specjalistka) oraz kobieta idealna (w tym aktywistka, kobieta sukcesu oraz zmysłowa). Ukazano także związek schematów istniejących w reklamach z funkcjonującymi w społeczeństwie stereotypami dotyczącymi płci. Ustalono, w jaki sposób poszczególne typy bohaterek są ukazywane w reklamach oraz jakie cechy są kanoniczne dla wizerunku tych kobiet.
ChemInform Abstract: Ferrocene-Beauty and Function
2013
Klasyczna teoria dramatu i jej wychowawcze implikacje
2009
Politiche della bellezza: prospettive per un nuovo umanesimo
2021
Sulla falsariga di James Hillman, il saggio mira a capire se la bellezza può suggerire delle strategie politiche – con riferimento etimologico al termine greco polis, città, o meglio comunità – al fine di costruire un nuovo umanesimo. Dopo aver messo a fuoco il concetto di politica e il nesso con la bellezza, si prenderanno in considerazione le teorie della filosofa nippo-americana Yuriko Saito, esponente dell’Everyday Aesthetics e si metterà a fuoco la nozione di cura. Questa nozione può costituire il fondamento di una politica intesa come “strategia relazionale”, in cui le pratiche comunitarie e la cittadinanza attiva possano costruire un mondo più sano e sostenibile. Along the lines of J…
Observation of the rare B(s)(0) + decay from the combined analysis of CMS and LHCb data.
2015
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Aesthetic Appeal and Visual Usability in Four Icon Design Eras
2016
Technological artefacts express time periods in their visual design. Due time, visual culture changes and thus affects the design of pictorial representations in technological products, such as icons in user interfaces. Previous research of temporal aspects in human-computer interaction has been focusing on particular interaction situations, but not on the effects of design eras on user experience. The influence of icon design styles of different eras on aesthetic and usability experiences was studied with the method of primed product comparisons. Affective preferences and their processing times were analysed in order to examine visual usability in terms of semantic distance and aesthetic a…