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This article reappraises commodification theory in light of literary-aesthetic categories, specifically, allegory vs symbol, as analyzed in Walter Benjamin’s criticism on German drama. As a larger framework of a modernity critique, the symbolic theory of Georg Lukács is read against the allegorical, critical impulse of Walter Benjamin.
Ecocriticism of Nineteenth-Century Taiwan in John Dodd’s “Formosa”
Li-Ru Lu, The International Journal of Literary Humanities, Volume 15, Issue 2, pp.1–8
Kenneth DiMaggio, The International Journal of Literary Humanities, Volume 14, Issue 3, pp.41–49
Anticipating Nietzsche: Culture and Chaos in “The House of Usher” and "Wuthering Heights"
Fred Mensch, The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review, Volume 13, Issue 1, pp.1–15
Cross-Cultural Studies and Aesthetics Discursive Transformations in China
Li Qingben, The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review, Volume 11, Issue 1, pp.113–122
Tama Weisman, The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review, Volume 10, Issue 1, pp.1–13
VideoPoetry: Collaboration as Imaginative Method
Peter Lutze, James Armstrong, and Laura Woodworth-Ney, International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review, Volume 9, Issue 5, pp.107–122
Cultivating Moral Sensibilities through Aesthetic Education: The Power of Everyday Cosmopolitanism
Suzanne S. Choo, International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review, Volume 8, Issue 2, pp.109–118