LEADER 04217nam 2200433 450 001 9910795128603321 005 20230808210051.0 010 $a1-84888-394-3 024 7 $a10.1163/9781848883949 035 $a(CKB)4920000000126662 035 $z(OCoLC)1110087960 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9781848883949 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6481553 035 $a(EXLCZ)994920000000126662 100 $a20210319d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun####uuuua 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cn$2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aBeauty $eexploring critical perspectives. /$fPierre Wilhelm, Rebecca Nash 210 1$aOxford, England :$cInter-Disciplinary Press,$d[2016] 210 4$d©2016 215 $a1 online resource 311 $a90-04-37039-0 327 $aPreliminary Material /$rPierre Wilhelm and Rebecca Nash -- Fat as Natural Beauty: Construction of Fat Embodiment among U.S. Second Wave Feminist Fat Activists /$rAmy Erdman Farrell -- Family, Peer and Media Influence on Cuban and Mexican Women?s Perception of Feminine Beauty and Their Body Esteem /$rPierre Wilhelm and Marianela Morales Calatayud -- The Absolution of the Beautiful Horror: The Erotic and the Sublime in Representations of War /$rAlberto José Viralhadas Ferreira -- Beauty at the Service of Humanity: A Review on the Therapeutic Value of Aesthetic Treatments /$rEva Carpigo -- The Beauty Landscape: Why the Role of the Web on Aesthetic Surgery Matters /$rRebecca Nash -- Decline of Perceived Beauty: Facial Representations between the 18th and 20th Century in Western Art /$rJavier de la Rosa , Natalia Caldas , Nandita Dutta and Juan Luis Suárez -- Digital Beauties: Strategies of Self-Presentation and Resistance /$rOlga Vainshtein -- Beauty and the Politics of Translation /$rJane Elisabeth Wilhelm -- Sing a Soundless Song for Beauty: Beauty in Literature and Music through Shen Congwen?s Fengzi /$rQianwei He -- Beauty in Economics: On the Literary Character of Mathematical Models /$rOliver Fohrmann -- Beauty as Ideological Enemy: Corporal Re-Education of Female Inmates in Yugoslav Political Prisons (1949-1956) /$rMilica Proki? -- Rejection of Beauty: An Unsightly Appearance as a Form of Nonverbal Communication /$rMarta Kargól -- Gagging Beauty /$rLaini Burton -- The Ugly Problem: The Lived Experience /$rJacque Lynn Foltyn -- Perceiving One?s Own Personal Beauty: Emotional indicators of the Identification Crisis /$rVyacheslav Simonov and Irina Strebkova -- Tourist Resorts as Stages of Social Display: Beauty and Fashion in 1930s Estoril /$rCristina Carvalho -- On Beauty: A Manifesto /$rPatricia A. Sayre. 330 $aRather than accept society?s ?preferred metaphors? about beauty at face value, the authors in this volume question the fact that beauty can also surprise us in the least foreseeable setting, at the most unexpected moment and in the most surprising or unsettling ways. Their work underscores beauty?s ephemeral, transitory, fleeting and at times confounding nature. The way beauty reveals itself to us, they point out, may challenge or even contradict established conventions, norms and values about aesthetics. The emergence of unconventional metaphors and analogies about beauty in these chapters calls on us to pay attention to competing and seemingly intractable connotations of fear, darkness, ugliness, oppression, repression, callousness and dejection that won?t leave us indifferent to their appeal. How we, as researchers, envisage beauty as a topic of investigation tells us as much about our conceptualization of beauty arising from particular scientific perceptions as about the language and symbols that express this perception. It raises the important question about why we rely on conceptual constructs to explain beauty and whether beauty remains a mystery to be explored or, ultimately, one best left unexplained. 606 $aMetaphor 615 0$aMetaphor. 676 $a808.032 702 $aWilhelm$b Pierre 702 $aNash$b Rebecca 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795128603321 996 $aBeauty$92698725 997 $aUNINA