罢丑别听Aesthetics and Cultural Studies聽research group advances interdisciplinary inquiries into the relationship between aesthetics and culture in its many-shaped and multi-medial forms. Gathering senior and junior researchers from the humanities and social sciences at 幸运飞艇计划 and our sister institutions elsewhere,聽Aesthetics and Cultural Studies聽probes聽the role and meaning of aesthetics in existing and emerging cultural worlds.聽
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Asbj酶rn Gr酶nstad and 脴yvind V氓gnes. "The River in Reverse: Flood Imaginaries, Old and New". American, British and Canadian Studies Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, 43, no. 1 (2024): 122-135.
Abstract:聽In this article, we turn to consider a specific region, and genre, that has spawned its own narrative tradition of environmentally perceptive songlore 鈥� the flood chronicles of the Mississippi Delta. Both real and mythological, this area constitutes a fertile source for the evolution of what we propose to call aesthetic imaginaries, and the article demonstrates how a distinct 鈥渇lood imaginary鈥� resonates through a specific tradition of songwriting, emerging and re-emerging with a set of poetic and musical tropes, serving different artistic purposes across time.