Abstract: Beauty in art is inherent and in all its aspects dominates the world of literature. Some creative writers have realised the importance of outdoor sports in human life and consciously included them in their work to bring about their…
Abstract: The paper discusses beauty as a social construct, a means of domination and subjugation as employed by the dominant class/gender over the less privileged/ marginalised. It briefly surveys, with instances from the literary world, the panorama of societies from…
Abstract: This paper proposes to explore how the notion of beauty is qualified en face transgender identity and experience. In her lecture titled On Beauty and Being Just, Elaine Scarry associates the experience of beauty with the desire for justice.…
Abstract: Beauty, Elaine Scarry argues, is sacred, life-giving and immortal. The memoir The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful and (HIV) Positive by the African American Marvelyn Brown co-authored with Courtney E. Martin challenges these commonplace notions of beauty in the context…
Abstract: In the present paper I seek to explore the differences between the handling of the enigma of beauty by Socrates and that by Diotima. Drawing on the feminist writers who strongly argue for a historically ‘real’ Diotima, and following…
Abstract: The existence of beauty and the question of reality had been baffling the philosophical inquiries for centuries. The current paradigm of space and time set limits for man, a finite being, to solve the problem of the ‘one’ and…
Abstract: This essay argues that Lessing’s The Fifth Child opens with the parturition Gothic centered around pregnancy with an unindividuated monstrous and childbirth with an individuated one, but an individual whose ontological identity is uncertain. In the second section, the…
Abstract: My objective in this paper is a limited and modest one: to illumine the suggestive analogy Michel Foucault proposed between life and works of art. This analogy presupposes that ethics and aesthetics have much in common than what is…
Abstract: On Beauty and Being Just by Elaine Scarry consists of the Tanner lectures on Human Values delivered at Yale University on March 25 and 26, 1998. The two lectures are “On Beauty and Being Wrong” and “On Beauty and…
Abstract: There often seems to exist, in many contexts, no boundary between beauty horror, monstrosity and ugliness. How these divisions came into being? The readings on beauty branch into multiple concerns in the papers included in the volume. In this…
