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Decadences - Morality and Aesthetics in British Literature
400 Seiten, Paperback
ibidem-Verlag | ISBN: 3898215733
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PrefaceThis collection seeks to examine the intersections of aesthetics and morality, of what Decadence means to art and society at various moments in British literature. The inclination toward either the artistic or social perspective in each essay has been rendered more straightforwardly by employing capitalization for aesthetic Decadence, and the lower-case to illustrate moral decadence. Both artistic and social values are inflected by their histories, and, as time passes, so the definition o...
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This collection seeks to examine the intersections of aesthetics and morality, of what Decadence means to art and society at various moments in British literature. Both artistic and social values are inflected by their histories, and, as time passes, so the definition of what it means to be D/decadent alters. The very ideas of the decline from a higher standard, of social malaise, of aesthetic ennui, all presume certain facts about the past, the present, and the linear nature of time itsel... [weiter lesen] |
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ContributorsBrian Burton completed his Ph.D. thesis on the poetry of Derek Mahon in 2004. He has taught English at the University of Durham, and is currently an Associate Lecturer with the Open University. His publications include essays on Mahon, Samuel Beckett, and Gérard de Nerval. He is presently conducting research on the poetry of North East England. Michael R. Catanzaro is a lecturer at the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio where he received his Ph.D. in English literature an... [weiter lesen] |
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Contents
Prefacevii
Paul Fox
Containing the Poisonous Text: Decadent Readers, Reading Decadence 1
Shafquat Towheed
Arthur Symons' Decadent Aesthetics: Stephane Mallarmé and the Dancer Revisited 3...
Petra Dierkes-Thrun
Cultural Decline and Alienation in Vernon Lee's "Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady"63
Peter G. Christensen
A Decadent Discord: George Egerton 91
Sarah E. Maier
"Lifeless, inane, dawdling": Decadence, Femininity and Olive Schreine' s Woman and La...
Ewa Macura
The Perversion of Decadence: The Cases of Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray and Salome 147
Bonnie J. Robinson
A Moment's Fixation: Aesthetic Time and Dialectical Progress 169
Paul Fox
Decadence in Post-Colonial British Dystopias 193
James Whitlark
"Lascivious Dialect": Decadent Rhetoric and the Early-Modern Pornographer 217
Eric Langley
Dandies, Libertines, and Byronic Lovers: Pornography and Erotic Decadence in Nineteen...
Deborah Lutz
Sexual Literary Freedom vs. Societal Hypocrisy and Ignorance: Aleister Crowley and th...
Michael R. Catanzaro
Discourse of Pathology and the Vitalistic Desire for Unity in Lawrence Durrell's The ...
Ann-Catherine Nabholz
The Obscure Camera: Decadence and Moral Anxiety in Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to...
Heather Marcovitch
Permissive Paradise: The Fiction of Swinging London 339
Nick Freeman
Derek Mahon: "A decadent who lived to tell the story"367
Brian Burton
Contributors 389
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