In recent decades, one after another, masterpieces of the southern Chinese theatrical genre chuanqi 傳奇 have been staged in productions that are more ambitious than stringing together the separate scenes that have been preserved in the Kunqu 崑曲 performance repertoire. These include Tang Xianzu’s 湯顯祖 (1550–1616) Peony Pavilion (Mudan ting 牡丹亭), Kong Shangren’s 孔尚任 (1648–1718) Peach Blossom Fan (T...

A longstanding tradition in the humanities holds that a writer's inspiration is infectious, but this thesis has not been tested. We hypothesized that (a) inspiration is infectious, such that inspired writers are more inspiring to the average reader; (b) contagion is mediated by the insightfulness of the text; and (c) contagion is moderated by readers' openness to experience, such that open read...

This essay is divided into two sections. In the first, I argue conditions for Keatsean Sensevil Sublime, drawing upon adequate resources from political (Hobbesian) and aesthetic categories (Longinus, Edmund Burke Immanuel Kant) to showcase expansions limitations of this Sublimity. A close-reading “This Living hand, now warm capable” (Written approximately in December, 1819, published posthumous...

Jacques Derrida’s reading of the topic sublime is disseminated throughout his different texts such as Glas (1974) and Truth in Painting (1987) to a vast area convergence between topoi its being colossal monstrous or examples from Greek sculptures monotheistic religions. Yet one topos, namely law, utmost example sublime, where opposite also at stake: position law exemplifies itself sublimity law...

There are severe issues that bring the impact of AI enabled systems into sharp focus for cultural heritage sector, especially when these platforms open, extremely tempting, and now accessible everyone who may wish to create art or write a novel at keyboard. Creating verbal cue waiting sublimity every desire i...

The Babyn Yar memorial complex is one of the few Holocaust spaces in Eastern Europe, located on site mass murder people during occupation Kyiv by German troops 1941-1943, especially Jewish population. article presents study logic and aesthetics space with help concepts optics "Symbolic Architecture" (Georg Hegel), "Sublime" (Immanuel Kant), as well "Greate Tradition" (Robert Redfield, Milton Si...

social happiness is one of the humanity’s most necessary innate needs and which plays a crucial role in the sublimity of individuals and society. reaching this would occur once individual has either physical or mental health. one of the effective factors in increasing the amount of individuals’ social happiness especially in women is providing them with mental dimension of security e.g. felling...

Social Happiness is one of the humanity’s most necessary innate needs and which plays a crucial role in the sublimity of individuals and society. Reaching this would occur once individual has either physical or mental health. One of the effective factors in increasing the amount of individuals’ social Happiness especially in women is providing them with mental dimension of security e.g. felling...