Art as embodiment of feeling: an aesthetic approach to contemporary novels

• Main Author: Siti Nadia Yanti Bte Alang M. K.
• Other Authors: Neil Murphy
• Format: Thesis-Master by Research
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Humanities::Literature; Social sciences::Sociology::Culture; Humanities::Language::Philology; Visual arts and music::Art criticism
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/172306
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The central question that drives this thesis is: what does it mean to call a novel a work of art? This question opens itself to the field of aesthetics with its traditional approaches to art and theories on what makes art important. Further investigation tells us that aesthetics have traditionally b...