Consciousness, Literature and the Arts
Archive
Book Reviews
Aberbach, Alan D. Richard Wagner’s Religious Ideas: A Spiritual Journey
reviewed by Leslie Barcza (3:1, April 2002)
Allen, Richard and Malcolm Turvey (Eds.) Wittgenstein, Theory and the Arts
reviewed by Howard Cannatella (3:1, April 2002)
Armstrong, Paul B. How Literature Plays with the Brain: the Neuroscience of Reading and Art
reviewed by Vivienne Glance (15:2, August 2014)
Arendt, Hannah. Reflections on Literature and Culture
reviewed by Per K Brask (8:3, December 2007)
reviewed by David Ian Rabey (16:2, August 2015)
Stephen T. Asma. The Evolution of Imagination
Reviewed by Gregory F Tague (19:1, April 2018)
Badiou, Alain. Plato’s Republic: A Dialogue in Sixteen Chapters, with a Prologue and an Epilogue
reviewed by John Vignaux Smyth (14:2, August 2013)
David Baggett and William A. Drumin, Eds. Hitchcock and Philosophy. Dial M for Metaphysics
reviewed by Gregory Minissale (10:1, April 2009)
Ball, Philip. Nature’s Patterns: A tapestry in three parts
reviewed by Dennis Schauffer (11:1, April 2010)
reviewed by Per K. Brask (8:1, April 2007)
Bataille, Georges. The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture
reviewed by Jeremy Bell (7:3, December 2006)
Baudrillard, Jean. The conspiracy of art: Manifestos, interviews, essays
reviewed by Christine Boyko-Head (7:1, April 2006)
Beecher, Donald. Adapted Brains and Imaginary Worlds: CognitiveScience and the Literature of Renaissance reviewed by Necla Çıkıgil (18:1, April 2017)
Beer, John. Romantic Consciousness
reviewed by Susan Nyikos (5:2, August 2004)
Beiser, Frederick. Schiller as philosopher: a re-examination
reviewed by Brad Eden (7:2, August 2006)
Bell, Kevin, Ashes Taken for Fire. Aesthetic Modernism and the Critique of Identity
reviewed by Isabel M. Andrés (8:3, December 2007)
Benito Jesus, Manzanas, Ana MŞ, Simal Begona, Magical Realism in US Ethnic Literatures
reviewed by Farzaneh Haratyan (11:3, December 2010)
Benson, Ophelia; Stangroom, Jeremy, Why Truth Matters
reviewed by J. Elias Saidennunez (7:3, December 2006)
Bernhart, Walter and Werner Wolf (eds). Self-reference in literature and music
reviewed by Bradford Lee Eden (12:3, December 2011)
Bianchini, Samuel., and Verhagen, Erik. PRACTICABLE: From Participation to Interaction in Contemporary Art
reviewed by Deborah Newton (18:2, August 2017)
Biro, Matthew, The Dada Cyborg: visions of the new human in Weimar Berlin
reviewed by Christopher Webster (12:2, August 2011)
Bloor, Anthony, A Multidisciplinary Study of fiction Writing
reviewed by Gloria B. Clark (5:1, April 2004)
reviewed by Odile Popescu (17:1, April 2016)
Bohn, Willard. The Rise of Surrealism: Cubism, Dada, and the Pursuit of the Marvelous
reviewed by Amy Ione. (4:1, April 2003)
reviewed by John Danvers (4:1, April 2003)
Bonshek, Anna. Mirror of Consciousness: Art, Creativity and Veda
reviewed by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe and William S. Haney II (5:1, April 2004)
Bottomer, Phyllis Ferguson. So Odd a Mixture. Along the Autistic Spectrum in Pride and Prejudice
reviewed by Isabel M. Andrés (9:1, April 2008)
Bowie, Andrew, Aesthetics and Subjectivity: From Kant to Nietzsche
reviewed by Adele Tomlin (5:1, April 2004)
Boyd, Brian. On the origin of stories:Evolution, cognition and fiction
reviewed by Christine Boyko-Head (10:3, December 2009)
Bracken, Christopher, Magical Criticism: The Recourse of Savage Philosophy
reviewed by Roberta M. Tucker (10:1, April 2009)
Bradby, David and Maria M. Delgado (eds.) The Paris Jigsaw: Internationalism and the City’s Stages
reviewed by Carl Lavery (5:1, April 2004)
Brakhage, Stan. Telling
Time: Essays of a Visionary Filmmaker
reviewed by
Brian Charles Clark
(5:3, December 2004)
Brantley, Richard E.
Experience and Faith: The Late-Roantic Imagination
of Emily Dickinson
reviewed by Brian Charles Clark (6:3, December 2005)
Brillenburg Wurth, Kiene, Musically Sublime: Indeterminacy, Infinity, Irresolvability
reviewed by Bennett Hogg (12:2, August 2011)
Richard Brilliant, Death: From Dust to Destiny
reviewed by Tamar Mebuke (19:1, April 2018)
Britzolakis, Christina. Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning
reviewed by Leslie Barcza (2:3, December 2001)
reviewed by Isabel M. Andres (13:2, August 2012)
Brown, Steven T., Theatricalities of Power: The Cultural Politics of Noh
reviewed by Carl Lavery (4:2, July 2003)
Bryan, Jennifer. Looking Inward: Devotional Reading and the Private Self in Late Medieval England
reviewed by Robert Paul Dunn (9:3, December 2008)
Burack, Charles, D. H. Lawrence’s Language of Sacred Experience: The Transfiguration of the Reader
reviewed by Sheridan Burnside (7:2, August 2006)
reviewed by Kimmika L. H. Williams-Witherspoon (13:3, December 2012)
reviewed by Jeffrey L. Wilson (10:1, April 2009)
Campen,Cretien van, The Hidden Sense: Synesthesia in Art and Science
reviewed by Necla Çıkıgil (9:1, April 2008)
Canclini, Néstor García. Art beyond itself: Anthropology for a society without a story line
reviewed by Tui Nicola Clery (17:2, August 2016)
Carroll, Noel, Comedy Incarnate – Buster Keaton, Physical Humor, and Bodily Coping
reviewed by Daniel Barnett (10:1, April 2009)
reviewed by Pramod K. Nayar (9:3, December 2008)
reviewed by Carla Stalling Huntington (7:3, December 2006)
Cattel, Ray. An Introduction to Mind, Consciousness and Language
reviewed by Daniel Barnett (8:1, April 2007)
Caute, David. The Dancer Defects
reviewed by Chad McLane
(5:2, August 2004)
Casey, Edward S. Earth-Mapping: Artists Reshaping Landscape
reviewed by
Amy Ione
(6:3, December 2005)
Catalano, Joseph S. Thinking Matter
reviewed by Javier Pulido Biosca (4:2, July 2003)
Chaudhuri, Una and Holly Hughes (Eds). Animal Acts: Performing Species Today
reviewed by John Vignaux Smyth (17:2, August 2016)
Chodat, Robert. Worldly Acts and Sentient Things; The Persistence of Agency from Stein to DeLillo
reviewed by Carla Stalling Huntington (12:2, August 2011)
reviewed by Ralph Yarrow (7:2, August 2006)
Consenstein, Peter, Literary Memory, Consciousness, and the Group Oulipo
reviewed by Thomas Aiello (7:2, August 2006)
reviewed by Necla Çıkıgil (13:2, August 2012)
Cooksey, Thomas L., Masterpieces of Non-Western Literature
reviewed by Theo Malekin (9:1, April 2008)
Crane, Mary Thomas. Shakespeare’s Brain. Reading With Cognitive Theory
reviewed by Michael Mangan (3:2, August 2002)
Cunningham, Anthony. The Heart of What Matters: The Role for Literature in Moral Philosophy
reviewed by James Willgoose (3:2, August 2002)
Currie, Gregory. Arts and Minds
reviewed by Brian Charles Clark (6:2, August 2005)
Cutrofello, Andrew. All for Nothing: Hamlet’s Negativity
reviewed by Per Brask (16:2, August 2015)
Dadlez, E. M., Mirrors to One Another: Emotion and Value in Jane Austen and David Hume
reviewed by Marcia K. Farrell (10:3, December 2009)
Dames, Nicholas. Amnesiac Selves: Nostalgia, Forgetting and British Fiction, 1810-1870
reviewed by Roger Dawkins (5:3, December 2004)
reviewed by Lisa Pavlik-Malone (9:2, August 2008)
Damian, Theodor. Ein Fallen selbst im Steigen. Gedichte
reviewed by Heinz-Uwe Haus (17:1, April 2016)
Damisch, Hubert, trans. John Goodman, A Childhood Memory by Piero della Francesca
reviewed by Valorie A.Worthy (9:2, August 2008)
Danto, Arthur C. The Madonna of the Future: Essays in a Pluralistic Art World
reviewed by Brian E. Butler (3:1, April 2002)
Danvers, John. Interwoven Nature: relatedness and identity in a changeful world
reviewed by Harry Youtt (18:2, August 2017)
Davis, David.
Art as Performance
reviewed by William Alejandro Martin (5:3, December 2004)
Davies, Stephen and Sukla, Anata Ch. (eds.) Art and Essence
reviewed by Jayne Fenton Keane (5:1, April 2004)
Davies, Stephen, The Philosophy of Art
reviewed by Pavel Sedlák (7:3, December 2006)
Dean, Jeanie S. A New Alphabet: Iconographic Language & Textual Embodiment
reviewed by Dene Grigar (5:1, April 2004)
Dehejia, Harsha V. Leaves of a pipal tree: aesthetic reflections on some Hindu myths and symbols
reviewed by Brad Eden (7:2, August 2006)
Denham, Robert D, Northrop Frye: Religious Visionary and Architect of the Spiritual World
reviewed by Allyna E. Ward (6:2, August 2005)
DiBattista, Maria. Fast-talking Dames
reviewed by Trisha Rhodes (3:1, April 2002)
reviewed by Carla Stalling Huntington (12:3, December 2011)
Dicker/Sun, Glenda. African American Theatre: A Cultural Companion
reviewed by Samuel Ayedime Kafewo (9:3, December 2008)
Dobson, Julia. Hélčne Cixous and the Theatre: The Scene of Writing
reviewed by Carl Lavery (3:3, December 2002)
Dolar, Mladen. A Voice and nothing more
reviewed by Christine Boyko-Head (7:3, December 2006)
Donoghue, Denis. Speaking of Beauty
reviewed by Beth Hawkins (5:1, April 2004)
Dosamantes-Beaudry, Irma. The Arts in Contemporary Healing
reviewed by Brad Eden (5:1, April 2004)
Draaisma, Douwe. The Nostalgia Factory: Memory, Time and Ageing
Reviewed by Benjamin Poore (15:1, April 2014)
Draaisma, Douwe. Forgetting: myths, perils and compensations
reviewed by Brad Eden (16:1, April 2015)
reviewed by Brian Charles Clark (5:2, August 2004)
Drew, John. India and the Romantic Imagination
reviewed by Steve Wall (3:2, August 2002)
Dyens, Ollivier. Metal and Flesh. The Evolution of Man: Technology Takes Over.
reviewed by Chloe Veltman (3:2, August 2002)
Emden, Christian J., Nietzsche on Language, Consciousness, and the Body
reviewed by Angela Holzer (7:2, August 2006)
Eshel, Amir. Futurity. Contemporary Literature and the Quest for the Past
reviewed by Kevin O’Regan (16:2, August 2015)
Etkind, Alexander. Internal Colonization: Russia’s Imperial Experience
reviewed by Verita Sriratana (14:3, December 2013)
Favorini, Attilio. Memory in Play: From Aeschylus to Sam Shepard
reviewed by Necla Çıkıgil (10:3, December 2009)
Farago, Claire and Robert Zwijnenberg, eds. Compelling Visuality: The Work of Art In and Out of History
reviewed by Amy Ione (5:1, April 2004)
reviewed by Gregory F. Tague (17:2, August 2016)
Finch, Annie. The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
reviewed by Julie Kane (7:2, August 2006)
Finkelpearl, Tom. What we made: Conversations on art and social cooperation
reviewed by Tui Nicola Clery (15:2, August 2014)
reviewed by Julianne White (5:1, April 2004)
Fisher, Philip, Wonder, the Rainbow and the Aesthetics of Rare Experiences
reviewed by Gloria B. Clark (6:2, August 2005)
Florman, Lisa. Concerning the Spiritual—and the Concrete—in Kandinsky’s Art
reviewed by Don Hill (16:3, December 2015)
Forman, Robert K. C. Grassroots Spirituality: What it is, Why it is here, Where is it going
reviewed by William S. Haney II (6:1, April 2005)
reviewed by Carl Lavery (4:2, July 2003)
Frankenberg, Ruth. Living Spirit: Living Practice. Poetics, Politics, Epistemology
reviewed by Maria Way (6:1, April 2005)
Franzen, Georg, Symbolisches Verstehen
reviewed by Fabio Akcelrud Durăo (6:1, April 2005)
Gabor, Olivia G. The Stage as ‘Der Spielraum Gottes’
reviewed by Per K. Brask (8:2, August 2007)
Candelas Gala. Poetry, Physics, and Painting in Twentieth-Century Spain
reviewed by Shahab Entezareghaem (17:3, December 2016
reviewed by Tim Mehigan (14:1, April 2013)
Reviewed by Norman Madarasz (6:3, December 2005)
Gaukroger, Stephen (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Descartes’ Meditations
reviewed by Alexandra Cauto (8:1, April 2007)
Gaut, Berys, and Lopes, Dominic McIver Lopes, editors. The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics.
reviewed by Andy Hamilton (3:3, December 2002)
Giannachi, Gabriella with Nick Kaye. Performing Presence: Between the Live and the Simulated
reviewed by Christophe Collard (12:3, December 2011)
reviewed by Brian Burton (5:2, August 2004)
Goerner, Ruediger, ed., Mozart--eine Herausforderung für Literatur und Denken
reviewed by Sonja Streuber (9:1, April 2008)
Goldman, Michael. On Drama Boundaries of Genre, Borders of Self
reviewed by Ioan Williams (4:1, April 2003)
Goodman, Russell, ed., Contending with Stanley
Cavell
reviewed by
Matthew Guy (6:3, December 2005)
Gorak, Jan (ed.) Canon vs. Culture: Reflections on the Current Debate
reviewed by William S. Haney, II (3:1, April 2002)
Gordon, John. Physiology and the Literary Imagination: Romantic to Modern
reviewed by Marcia K. Farrell (5:2, August 2004)
Grace, Daphne, The Woman in the Muslin Mask: Veiling and Identity in Postcolonial Literature
reviewed by Dimple Godiwala (5:2, August 2004)
Gracyk,Theodore. The Philosophy of Art
reviewed by Adrian Page (12:3, December 2011)
Graham, Gordon. Philosophy of The Arts
reviewed by Anthony J. Palmer (3:1, April 2002)
Graham, Arthur, Shakespeare in Opera, Ballet, Orchestral Music, and Song
reviewed by Dwayne Brenna (3:1, April 2002)
Grau, Oliver. Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion
reviewed by Roger Dawkins (4:3, December 2003)
Grinshpon, Yohanan. Crisis and Knowledge: The Upanishadic Experience and Storytelling
reviewed by William S Haney II (5:2, August 2004)
Groover, Kristina K., ed., Things of the Spirit
reviewed by Susan Nyikos (6:2, August 2005)
Gu, Ming Dong, Chinese Theories of Reading and Writing, A Route to Hermeneutics and Open Poetics
reviewed by Daniel Barnett (8:2, August 2007)
Guerlac, Suzanne, Thinking In Time, An Introduction To Henry Bergson
reviewed by Elena Cologni (9:1, April 2008)
Gundle, Stephen. . Bellissima: Feminine Beauty and the Idea of Italy
reviewed by Lisa Pavlik-Malone (9:3, December 2008)
Gupta, Anoop. Kierkegaard's Romantic Legacy: Two Theories of the Self
reviewed by Edward P. Butler (7:2, August 2006)
Guyer, Sara. Reading with John Clare: Biopoetics, Sovereignty, Romanticism
reviewed by John Danvers (17:1, April 2016)
Hägglund, Martin. Dying for Time: Proust, Woolf, Nabokov
reviewed by Verita Sriratana (14:1, April 2013)
Hagberg, Gary. Art and Ethical Criticism
reviewed by Ben Schachter (9:3, December 2008)
Halcour, Dorothée. Wie wirkt Kunst: Zur Psychologie des ästhetischen Erlebens
reviewed by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein (4:3, December 2003)
Hamilton,John T. Music,Madness, and the Unworking of Language
reviewed by Necla Çıkıgil (9:3, December 2008)
Hammer, Anita. Between Play and Prayer: The Variety of Theatricals in Spiritual Performance
reviewed by James McNicholas (12:2, August 2011)
Haney, William S., II Culture and Consciousness: Literature Regained
reviewed by James Tipton (5:1, April 2004)
reviewed by Ralph Yarrow (3:3, December 2002)
Haney, William S. II, Cyberculture, Cyborgs and Science Fiction. Consciousness and the Posthuman
reviewed by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe (7:2, August 2006)
Hansen, Mark B. N., New Philosophy for New Media
reviewed by Pavel Sedlák (5:3, December 2004)
Hargreaves, David J. and Adrian C. North, Eds. The Social Psychology of Music
reviewed by Anthony J. Palmer (4:2, July 2003)
Hart, George. Inventing the Language to Tell It: Robinson Jeffers and the Biology of Consciousness
Reviewed by Sarah Giragosian (15:1, April 2014)
Hatfield, Gary and Holly Pittman, eds. Evolution of Mind, Brain, and Culture
reviewed by Gregory F Tague (15:2, August 2014)
reviewed by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe (15:3, December 2014)
Hathaway, William T. Summer Snow
reviewed by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe (7:1, April 2006)
Heifetz, Milton D. Sexuality, Curiosity, Fear, and the Arts: Biology of Aesthetics
reviewed by Hans J Rindisbacher (5:1, April 2004)
Hertel, Ralf. Making Sense: Sense Perception in the British Novel of the 1980s and 1990s
reviewed by Hans J. Rindisbacher (6:2, August 2005)
Hirsch, Edward. The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration
reviewed by Maria Way (5:1, April 2004)
Hockey, Susan, Electronic Texts in the Humanities
reviewed by Robin Hodge (3:2, August 2002)
Hocking, Brent, Haskell, Johnna, Linds, Warren (Eds.), Unfolding Bodymind: Exploring Possibility Through Education
reviewed by Amy Ione (3:2, August 2002)
Hodgkinson, Tim. Music and the myth of wholeness: toward a new aesthetic paradigm
reviewed by Bradford Lee Eden (18:1, April 2017)
Hogan, Patrick Colm, Understanding Indian Movies. Culture, Cognition, and Cinematic Imagination
reviewed by Reinhold Schein (10:2, August 2009)
Holm, Bent, Bent Flemming Nielsen and Karen Vedel, editors. Religion, Ritual, Theater
reviewed by Kimmika L. H. Williams-Witherspoon (11:1, April 2010)
Holm, Bent. The Taming of the Turk: Ottomans on the Danish Stage 1596-1896.
reviewed by Per Brask (16:1, April 2015)
Huebert, Ronald. The Performance of Pleasure in English Renaissance Drama
reviewed by Winter Elliott (5:1, April 2004)
Humble, Nicola, The Feminine Middlebrow Novel 1920s to 1950s: Class, Domesticity, and Bohemianism
reviewed by Paula Redway (4:1, April 2003)
Hunter, Lynette, Disunified Aesthetics: Situated Textuality, Performativity, and Collaboration
reviewed by Holly Berkowitz (17:1, April 2016)
Ione, Amy, Innovation and Visualization: Trajectories, Strategies, and Myths
reviewed by John Danvers (8:1, April 2007)
Iseminger, Gary. The Aesthetic Function of Art
reviewed by Christa Zorn (6:1, April 2005)
Isham, Howard. Image of the Sea: Oceanic Consciousness in the Romantic Century
reviewed by Brian Burton (6:1, April 2005)
Jacobs, Carol. Skirting the Ethical
reviewed by Tim Mehigan (10:2, August 2009)
Jaén, Isabel and Julien J. Simon, eds. Cognitive Literary Studies
reviewed by Harry Youtt (13:3, December 2012)
Jaeger, C. Stephen. Enchantment: on charisma and the sublime in the arts of the West
reviewed by Bradford Lee Eden (14:1, April 2013)
Jefferson, Ann. Genius in France: An Idea and Its Uses
reviewed by Ralph Yarrow (17:1, April 2016)
reviewed by Krishna Barua (13:2, August 2012)
Jewanski, Jörg/Sidler, Natalia (eds.): Farbe – Licht – Musik. Synästhesie und Farblichtmusik
reviewed by Christiane Heibach (9:1, April 2008)
Johnson, W. J., Kalidasa The Recognition of Sakuntala
reviewed by Margaret Coldiron (3:2, August 2002)
Jones, Richard Elfyn. Music and the Numinous
reviewed by Anthony J. Palmer (9:3, December 2008)
Jordan, J. Scott, ed. Modeling Consciousness Across the Disciplines.
reviewed by Roberta Tucker (3:3, December 2002)
reviewed by Veronica Freeman (5:1, April 2004)
Kac, Eduardo. Telepresence and Bio Art: Networking Humans, Rabbits, and Rabbits
reviewed by Pramod K. Nayar (7:1, April 2006)
Kac, Eduardo. Media Poetry: An International Anthology
reviewed by Dene Grigar (9:2, August 2008)
reviewed by Angela Holzer (8:1, April 2007)
Kermode, Frank. Pleasure and Change: The Aesthetics of Canon
reviewed by Marcia K. Farrell (6:1, April 2005)
Kieran, Matthew, ed.
Contemporary debates in aesthetics and the
philosophy of art
reviewed by Brad Eden (6:3, December 2005)
Kieran, Matthew, Revealing Art
Reviewed by Christian W. Denker (6:3, December
2005)
King, Thomas. The Truth about Stories: A Native Narrative
reviewed by Brian Charles Clark (6:2, August 2005)
Kirby, Vicki. Quantum Anthropologies: Life at Large
reviewed by Christine Boyko-Head (14:1, April 2013)
Kivy, Peter, ed., The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics
reviewed by Siobhán Collins (5:3, December 2004)
Kivy, Peter. The Performance of Reading: An Essay in the Philosophy of Literature
reviewed by Julian Jason Haladyn (11:1, April 2010)
Koch, Christof. Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist
reviewed by Gregory F. Tague (14:1, April 2013)
Kooy, Michael John, Coleridge, Schiller and Aesthetic Education
reviewed by Angela Holzer (5:1, April 2004)
reviewed by Brad Eden (9:2, August 2008)
Kristeva, Julia. The Incredible Need to Believe
reviewed by Christine Boyko-Head (12:1, April 2011)
Laland, Kevin N. Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind
reviewed by Gregory F. Tague (18:2, August 2017)
reviewed by Brian Burton (5:1, April 2004)
Lamarque, Peter The Philosophy of Literature
reviewed by Jeffrey Strayer (10:2, August 2009)
Lamberts, Koen; Goldstone, Robert L. (editors). Handbook of Cognition
reviewed by Amy Ione (6:2, August 2005)
Landy, Joshua Philosophy as Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust
reviewed by Anna Howitt (7:2, August 2006)
Reviewed by Kriben Pillay (15:1, April 2014)
Lehmann, Courtney, Shakespeare Remains: Theater to Film, Early Modern to Postmodern
reviewed by Ken Wong (4:2, July 2003)
Lehmann, Marc. Embodied Music Cognition and Mediation Technology
reviewed by Kimberly Mosher Lockwood (10:1, April 2009)
Leverage, Paula. Reception and Memory: A Cognitive Approach to the Chansons de geste
reviewed by Anthony Squiers (12:3, December 2011)
Livingston, Paisley, Art and Intention: A Philosophical Study
reviewed by Matthew Guy (6:2, August 2005)
Livingston, Paisley. Cinema, Philosophy, Bergman: On Film as Philosophy
reviewed by Theo Malekin (15:3, December 2014)
Lloyd, Dan Edward, Radiant Cool: A Novel Theory of Consciousness
reviewed by Joseph Naimo (5:1, April 2004)
Loesberg, Jonathan, A Return to Aesthetics: Autonomy, Indifference, and Postmodernism
reviewed by Pavel Sedlák (7:3, December 2006)
López, José, and Garry Potter, Eds. After Postmodernism: An Introduction to Critical Realism
reviewed by Gloria B. Clark (9:2, August 2008)
Lotringer, Sylvčre and Paul Virilio, The Accident of Art
reviewed by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein (7:1, April 2006)
Luckhurst, Roger. The Invention of Telepathy: 1870-1901
reviewed by Jake Kennedy (5:1, April 2004)
Luhmann, Niklas. Art as a Social System
reviewed by John Danvers (2:3, December 2001)
Mangan, Michael. Performing Dark Arts: A Cultural History of Conjuring
reviewed by Michael A. Harding (10:2, August 2009)
reviewed by Maya N. Öztürk (13:1, April 2012)
Mather, George. The Psychology of Visual Art: Eye, Brain and Art
reviewed by Amy Ione (15:2, August 2014)
Mathews, Pamela R. and David McWhirter. Eds. Aesthetic Subjects
reviewed by Pramod K. Nayar (5:1, April 2004)
Marshall, David. The Frame of Art: Fictions of Experience
reviewed by Jennifer Ewing Pierce (8:1, April 2007)
Martin, David L. . Curious visions of modernity: enchantment, magic, and the sacred
reviewed by Bradford Lee Eden (13:2, August 2012)
Massumi, Brian, Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrant arts
reviewed by Ben Schachter (14:3, December 2013)
reviewed by John Marmysz (3:2, August 2002)
McAlpine. Fiona. Tonal consciousness and the medieval West
reviewed by Bradford Lee Eden (10:3, December 2009)
McAuley, Gay. Not magic but work: An ethnographic account of a rehearsal process
reviewed by Vivienne Glance (14:1, April 2013)
reviewed by Dan Pinchbeck (8:1, April 2007)
reviewed by John Downie (11:2, August 2010)
McGinn, Colin. Inborn Knowledge: The Mystery Within
reviewed by Gregory F. Tague (18:1, April 2017)
McRobert, Laurie. Char Davies's Immersive Virtual Art and the Essence of Spatiality
reviewed by Amy Ione (9:1, April 2008)
Mee, Erin B. (Ed.), Contemporary Drama: India
reviewed byRalph Yarrow (3:3, December 2002)
Meerzon, Yana , The Path of a Character: Michael Chekhov’s Inspired Acting and Theatre Semiotics
reviewed by Franc Chamberlain (7:2, August 2006)
Meyer-Dinkgräfe, Daniel, Theatre and Consciousness: Explanatory Scope and Future Potential
reviewed by William S Haney II (7:2, August 2006)
Miles, Elza. Selby Mvusi: to fly with the north bird south
reviewed by Sope Maithufi (17:3, December 2016)
Milner, Andrew. Literature, Culture and Society
reviewed by Brian Burton (6:1, April 2005)
Mills, Bruce. Poe, Fuller and the Mesmeric Arts: Transition States in the American Renaissance
reviewed by Annemarie E. Hamlin (7:2, August 2006)
Milutis, Joe, Ether: The Nothing That Connects Everything
reviewed by Dan Watt (7:2, August 2006)
Mirzoeff, Nicholas, The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality
reviewed by Juneko J. Robinson (14:2, August 2013)
Morris, Robert, Have I Reasons
reviewed by Ben Schachter (10:3, December 2009)
Morrissey, Lee, Debating the Canon. A Reader from Addison to Nafisi
reviewed by Asimina Karavanta (7:1, April 2006)
Murphy, Timothy S. Antonio Negri: Modernity and the Multitude
reviewed by Mini Chandran (14:2, August 2013)
Murray, Janet H., Hamlet on the Holodeck The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace
reviewed by Shari Burnard Ostrom (18:3, December 2017
Nair, Sreenath. Restoration of Breath: Consciousness and Performance
reviewed by Ralph Yarrow (9:2, August 2008)
reviewed by Susan Green (12:3, December 2011)
Nehamas, Alexander. Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art
reviewed by José Baracat Jr. (9:2, August 2008)
Nelson, Victoria, The Secret Life of Puppets
reviewed by Matt Palmer (4:2, July 2003)
Noë, Alva. Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature
reviewed by Gregory F. Tague (17:2, August 2016)
Noland, Carrie & Ness, Sally Ann (eds.), Migrations of Gesture
reviewed by Isabel M. Andres (9:3, December 2008)
reviewed by Kevin O’Regan (17:1, April 2016)
Nussbaum, Charles O., The Musical Representation, Meaning, Ontology, and Emotion
reviewed by Daniel Barnett
Nuttall, Sarah. Beautiful / Ugly
reviewed by Ndubuisi Ezeluomba (8:2, August 2007)
Okamoto, Shiro; The man who Saved Kabuki: Faubion Bowers and Theatre Censorship in Occupied Japan.
reviewed by Margaret Coldiron (3:3, December 2002)
Orwin, Donna Tussing. Conseuqences of Consciousness: Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy
reviewed by Susan Nyikos (12:1, April 2011)
Paster, Gail Kern, Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage
reviewed by Siobhán Collins (6:2, August 2005)
Pastoureau, Michel. The Colours of Our Memories
reviewed by Anne Newton (14:3, December 2013)
Pastoureau, Michel. The Colours of Our Memories
reviewed by Hans R. Rindisbacher (14:3, December 2013)
Patton, Laurie L., Bringing the Gods to Mind: Mantra and Ritual in Early Indian Sacrifice
reviewed by Margaret Coldiron (6:3, December 2005)
Paulsen, Kris. Here/There: Telepresence, Touch, and Art at the Interface
reviewed by Don Hill (18:2, August 2017)
Pepperell, Robert. The Posthuman Condition: Consciousness Beyond the Brain
reviewed by William S. Haney II (5:1, April 2004)
Pepperell, Robert and Punt, Michael, eds Screen Consciousness, Mind and World
reviewed by Jan Baetens (7:3, December 2006)
Peretz, Eyal. Becoming Visionary. Brian De Palma’s Cinematic Education of the Senses
reviewed by Isabel M. Andrés (12:3, December 2011)
Piedmont, Ferdinand: Aktuelles Theater mit Schiller
reviewed by Angela Holzer (7:3, December 2006)
Platt, Carole Brooks. In Their Right Minds: The Lives and Shared Practices of Poetic Geniuses
reviewed by Jade Rosina McCutcheon (17:2, August 2016
Poore, Benjamin, Heritage, Nostalgia and Modern British Theatre: Staging the Victorians
reviewed by David Ian Rabey (14:3, December 2013)
Pordzik, Ralph, ed., Futurescapes Space in Utopian and Science Fiction Discourses
reviewed by Sinem Bezircilioğlu (12:2, August 2011)
Porte, Joel. Consciousness and culture: Emerson & Thoreau reviewed
reviewed by Brad Eden (6:2, August 2005)
reviewed by Keneth Bamuturaki (19:1, April 2018)
Ratcliffe, Sophie. On Sympathy: Oxford English Monographs
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Richards, I.A. Principles of Literary Criticism
reviewed by Roberta Tucker (3:3, December 2002)
Nicholas Ridout, Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
reviewed by Maya Nanitchkova Öztürk (10:2, August 2009)
Ricoeur, Paul. Hermeneutics. Writings and Lectures, Volume 2
reviewed by Kevin O’Regan (14:3, December 2013)
Rigby, Kate. Topographies of the Sacred: The Poetics of Place in European Romanticism
reviewed by Pramod K. Nayar (6:2, August 2005)
Roald, Tone. The Subject of Aesthetics: A Psychology of Art and Experience
reviewed by Gregory F. Tague (17:2, August 2016)
Roberts, David. The Total Work of Art in European Modernism
reviewed by Claire Warden (14:2, August 2013)
Robinson, Jenefer,
Deeper Than Reason: Emotion and its Role in Literature,
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reviewed by Juneko J. Robinson
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Roche, Mark William. Why Literature Matters in the 21st
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reviewed by Gregory Vaughn McNamara (6:2, Augu st 2005)
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Rousseau, George S.,
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reviewed by Marcia K. Farrell (6:3, December 2005)
Roy, Louis. Transcendent Experiences, Phenomenology and Critique
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Schleifer, Ronald. Intangible Materialism: The Body, Scientific Knowledge and the Power of Language
reviewed by Hans J. Rindisbacher (11:2, August 2010)
Schmidt, Gisla. Mirror Image and Therapy
reviewed by Christine Boyko-Head (6:1, April 2005)
Schor, Mira. A Decade of Negative Thinking
reviewed by Ben Schachter (11:2, August 2010)
Schulte, Philipp. Identität als Experiment: Ich-Performanz auf der Gegenwartsbühne
reviewed by Christa Zorn (13:3, December 2012)
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reviewed by Christa Zorn (7:1, April 2006)
Shaughnessy, Nicola. Applying performance: Live art, socially engaged theatre and affective practice
reviewed by Christine Boyko-Head (14:2, August 2013)
Sheehan. Paul. Modernism, Narrative and Humanism
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Shelton, Allen: Dreamworlds of Alabama
reviewed by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein (9:3, December 2008)
Shepherd-Barr. Kirsten E. Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett
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Showalter, Elaine. Faculty Towers. The Academic Novel and its Discontents
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Shusterman Richard, and Tomlin, Adele, Aesthetic Experience
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Simpson, Anne B. Territories of the Psyche: The Fiction of Jean Rhys
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Simpson, Ken. Spiritual architecture and Paradise Regained: Milton’s literary ecclesiology
reviewed by Brad Eden (10:2, August 2009)
Silver, Carole. Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness and
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reviewed by Arthur Versluis (3:1, April 2002)
reviewed by Lauren Elkin (5:2, August 2004)
reviewed by Francisco Javier Sánchez-Verdejo Pérez (12:2, August 2011)
Snaevarr, Stefan. Minerva and the Muses: The Place of Reason in Aesthetic Judgment
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reviewed by Marcia K. Farrell (8:2, August 2007)
reviewed by Christa Zorn (10:1, April 2009)
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Sonnevi, Göran. Mozart’s Third Brain
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Sorgner, Stefan Lorenz and Oliver Furbeth (eds) Music in German Philosophy: An Introduction.
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Spellmeyer, Kurt, Arts of Living, Reinventing the Humanities for the Twenty first Century
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reviewed by Constance Eichenlaub (5:2, August 2004)
Spiegelman, Willard. How Poets See the World: The Art of Description in Contemporary Poetry
reviewed by Julie Kane (9:3, December 2008)
Starr, G. Gabrielle. Feeling Beauty: The Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience
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Stavans, Ilan and Jorge J.E. Gracia. Thirteen Ways of Looking at Latino Art
reviewed by Laura Hatry (16:3, December 2015)
Strayer, Jeffrey. Subjects and Objects: Art, Essentialism, and Abstraction
reviewed by Julian Jason Haladyn (9:1, April 2008)
Sudnow, David. Ways of the hand – a rewritten account.
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reviewed by Bradford Lee Eden (15:2, August 2014)
Synder, Bob. Music and Memory: An Introduction
reviewed by Christine Boyko-Head (4:3, December 2003)
Tanner, Tony. The American Mystery: American Literature from Emerson to DeLillo
reviewed by William S. Haney, II (3:1, April 2002)
reviewed by Robert Dunn (5:2, August 2004)
Thompson, Kate, Therapeutic Journal Writing: An Introduction for Professionals
Bolton, Gillie, Victoria Field and Kate Thompson (Eds.), Writing Routes: A Resource Handbook of Therapeutic Writings
reviewed by Christine Boyko-Head (13:2, August 2012
Thompson, Krista, Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice
reviewed by Sope Maithufi (17:2, August 2016)
Tomlinson, Barbara. Authors on Writing: Metaphors and Intellectual Labor
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Torey, Zoltan. The conscious mind
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reviewed by Dimple Godiwala (4:2, July 2003)
Van Campen, Cretien. The Proust Effect: The Senses as Doorways to Lost Memories
reviewed by Roberta Tucker (15:2, August 2014)
Vendler, Helen. The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar: Essays on Poets and Poetry
reviewed by John Danvers (17:1, April 2016)
Versluis, Arthur. The Esoteric Origins of the American Renaissance
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Waaijman, Kees. Spirituality: Forms, Foundations, Methods
reviewed by Gregor Thuswaldner
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Walden, Scott (Ed.). Photography and Philosophy – Essays on the Pencil of Nature
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Wallace, Jeff, D. H.
Lawrence, Science and the Posthuman
reviewed by Pavel Sedlák
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Walter, Christina. Optical Impersonality: Science, Images, and Literary Modernism,
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Warburton, Nigel. The Art Question
reviewed by Amy Ione (4:3, December 2003)
Weinstone, Ann. Avatar Bodies: A Tantra for Posthumanism
reviewed by Laurie N. Taylor (5:3, December 2004)
Wells, Marion A. The Secret Wound: Love-Melancholy and Early Modern Romance
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reviewed by Brad Eden (7:1, April 2006)
Weston, Michael. Philosophy, Literature and the Human Good
reviewed by Howard Cannatella (2:3, December 2001)
White, Gillian. Lyric Shame: The ‘Lyric’ Subject of Contemporary American Poetry
reviewed by Rıza Öztürk (17:2, August 2016)
Whitelaw, Mitchell. Metacreation: art and artificial life
reviewed by Brad Eden (5:3, December 2004)
Whitworth, Michael. Einstein’s wake: relativity, metaphor and modernist literature.
reviewed by Helen Prosser (3:3, December 2002)
Wilhelm, Oliver and Randall W. Engle (Eds.) Handbook of understanding and measuring intelligence
reviewed by Brad Eden (6:1, April 2005)
Williams, Simon and Maik Hamburger, A History of the German Theatre
reviewed by Necla Çıkıgil (14:1, April 2013)
reviewed by David James Prickett (7:1, April 2006)
Wilson, David L. and Bowen, Zack. Science and Literature: Bridging the two cultures
reviewed by Javier Pulido Biosca (5:1, April 2004)
Wilson, Elizabeth A.
Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body
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Wimmers, Inge Crosman. Proust and Emotion
reviewed by Robert E. Chumbley (5:3, December 2004)
Wolf, Philipp, Modernization and the Crisis of Memory: John Donne to Don DeLillo
reviewed by Stephen J. Burn (6:1, April 2005)
Worthen C.B. with Peter Holland (eds) Theorizing Practice: Redefining Theatre History
reviewed by Leslie Barcza (5:3, December 2004)
Young, James O. Cultural Appropriation and the Arts
reviewed by Miriam Jordan and Julian Jason Haladyn (9:3, December 2008)
Zamir, Tzachi. Acts: Theater, Philosophy, and the Performing Self
reviewed by James Hamilton (16:2, August 2015)
Zietze, Sylvia. Light and Consciousness,Licht und Bewusstsein
reviewed by Necla Çıkıgil (8:2, August 2007)
Zipes, Jack, The Irresistible Fairy-Tale. The Cultural and Social History of a Genre
reviewed by Evangelia Moula (14:1, April 2013)
Žižek, Slavoj and Dolar, Mladen. Opera’s Second Death
reviewed by Leslie Barcza (4:3, December 2003)
Zunshine Lisa. (ed, Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies
reviewed by Gregory F. Tague (13:2, August 2012)
Zunshine, Lisa. Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible
reviewed by Troy Camplin (13:3, December 2012)
Zunshine, Lisa. Getting Inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us About Popular Culture
reviewed by Gregory F. Tague (14:1, April 2013)
Hacking Consciousness. The Stanford University Video Series
reviewed by William T. Hathaway (16:1, April 2015)