“Cancer,” Susan Sontag observed in Illness as Metaphor, “is a rare and still scandalous subject for poetry; and it seems unimaginable to aestheticize the disease.” Though she wrote this in the late ...

"The evolution of Chinese aesthetics reflects an active dialogue between Chinese youth and the contemporary era. Through the ...

Courtesy of Laurence Xu. Editor's Note: The sense of beauty has intrigued humanity since the dawn of civilization. Various ...

Infused with the wit and charm of Jane Austen and driven by Shakespearean interventions of fate, the novel is an inviting romance that doesn’t seek to merely aestheticize the decadent Regency ...

Films distance the audience from the story by using symbolic narrative techniques that are meant to aestheticize and hyperbolize reality. Social media platforms, contrastingly, are a much more ...

Public Works - deals with the design, planning, construction, and maintenance of structures and components to design, beautify, and aestheticize public spaces such as fountains and parks.