Aesthetics across Cultures : Intertextuality, Intermediality and Interculturality (Paperback)

Introduction- Rosy Singh Part I: On the Programmatic Concept of Intersectionality and Comparative Research 1. Intermediality or 'Mutual Illumination of the Arts'? - Wolfgang Braungart Part II: Art, Artistry and Aesthetic Theory 2. Nietzsche’s Aesthetic Phenomenon- Babu Thaliath 3. Beauty, Arts and Artists in Hermann Hesse’s Fairytales- Sadhana Naithani 4. Aestheticization of Martyrdom in La Chanson de Roland- Abhimanyu Sharma 5. Dadaism and Internet Meme: Aesthetics of Non-sense- Vaibhav Sharma Part III: Religion, Mysticism, History of Ideas 6. “Nachahmung des schon Dagewesenen”: Goethe’s Discourse on Poetry and Religion in the Poem Open Secret of the West-Eastern Divan- Hamid Tafazoli 7. Indian Thought in Martin Buber’s I and Thou: Chandrika Kumar 8. A secular Pancatantra and its religious journey- Priyada S. Padaye Part IV: Literature, Film and Intertextuality 9. How Franz Kafka’s ‘Mann vom Lande’ sneaks into Thomas Bernhard’s Der Diktator - Rosy Singh 10. Kafka In SoHo: An Analysis of Martin Scorsese’s After Hours (1985)- Syed Habeeb Tehseen 11. The Intersection of Visual Arts and Literature: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s Woodworks of Adelbert von Chamisso’s Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte - Mercy Vungthianmuang Guite Part V: Performing and Fine Arts 12. Rhythms of the ‘Third’ Across Cultures - A Study of Performance Aesthetics- Anuradha Ghosh 13. To play the puppet. Intermediality in Robert Wilsons adaptation of E.T.A. Hoffmann's The Sandman- Thomas Wortmann 14. Intermedial Study of Stuart Patience’s Paintings and E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Der Sandmann (1816)-Sahib Kapoor . Index