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  2. Outline of aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    Outline of aesthetics at PhilPapers "Outline of aesthetics". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Medieval Theories of Aesthetics article in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy; Revue online Appareil; Postscript 1980- Some Old Problems in New Perspectives; Aesthetics in Art Education: A Look Toward Implementation; More about Art, culture ...

  3. Stylistics - Wikipedia

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    Stylistics, a branch of applied linguistics, is the study and interpretation of texts of all types, but particularly literary texts, and spoken language with regard to their linguistic and tonal style, where style is the particular variety of language used by different individuals in different situations and settings.

  4. The Sense of Beauty - Wikipedia

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    Santayana objects to the role of God in aesthetics in the metaphysical sense, but accepts the use of God as metaphor. [1] His argument that beauty is a human experience, based on the senses, is influential in the field of aesthetics. [4] However, Santayana would reject this approach, which he called "skirt[ing] psychologism," later on in life. [1]

  5. Applied aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    Aesthetics in cartography relates to the visual experience of map reading and can take two forms: affective responses to the map itself as an aesthetic object (e.g., considering a map to be "beautiful," or "interesting," or "frustrating"), and affective responses to the geographic subject of the map (e.g., considering the mapped landscape as ...

  6. Outline (list) - Wikipedia

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    The outlines described in this article are lists, and come in several varieties. A sentence outline is a tool for composing a document, such as an essay, a paper, a book, or even an encyclopedia. It is a list used to organize the facts or points to be covered, and their order of presentation, by section.

  7. Wikipedia:Outlines

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    Wikipedia outlines are a hybrid of topic outlines (outlines made of terms) and sentence outlines (outlines made of sentences), and many outlines include elements of each. Many outlines provide descriptive annotations in their entries, to assist readers in topic identification and selection, to help them at a glance to understand the terms and ...

  8. Aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    Aesthetics examines the philosophy of aesthetic value, which is determined by critical judgments of artistic taste; [2] thus, the function of aesthetics is the "critical reflection on art, culture and nature". [3] [4] Aesthetics studies natural and artificial sources of experiences and how people form a judgment about those sources of experience.

  9. Stylistic device - Wikipedia

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    In this sentence, Wiesel uses two parallel independent clauses written in the passive voice. The first clause establishes suspense about who rules the ghetto, and then the first few words of the second clause set up the reader with the expectation of an answer, which is metaphorically revealed only in the final word of the sentence.