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Decadence In Literature And Intellectual Debate Since 1945
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Author : D. Landgraf
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-11-06
Decadence In Literature And Intellectual Debate Since 1945 written by D. Landgraf and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
Bridging the gap between decadence as it is traditionally understood in literary and cultural studies and its relevance to current phenomena, this interdisciplinary collection examines literary texts and movies from Europe and the United States since 1945.
Decadence In Literature And Intellectual Debate Since 1945
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Author : Diemo Landgraf
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Decadence In Literature And Intellectual Debate Since 1945 written by Diemo Landgraf and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Decadence in literature categories.
Bridging the gap between decadence as it is traditionally understood in literary and cultural studies and its relevance to current phenomena, this interdisciplinary collection examines literary texts and movies from Europe and the United States since 1945.
Decadence In Literature And Intellectual Debate Since 1945
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Author : D. Landgraf
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-11-06
Decadence In Literature And Intellectual Debate Since 1945 written by D. Landgraf and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
Bridging the gap between decadence as it is traditionally understood in literary and cultural studies and its relevance to current phenomena, this interdisciplinary collection examines literary texts and movies from Europe and the United States since 1945.
Decadence A Very Short Introduction
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Author : David Weir
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-03-09
Decadence A Very Short Introduction written by David Weir and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
The history of decadent culture runs from ancient Rome to nineteenth-century Paris, Victorian London, fin de siècle Vienna, Weimar Berlin, and beyond. The decline of Rome provides the pattern for both aesthetic and social decadence, a pattern that artists and writers in the nineteenth century imitated, emulated, parodied, and otherwise manipulated for aesthetic gain. What begins as the moral condemnation of modernity in mid-nineteenth century France on the part of decadent authors such as Charles Baudelaire ends up as the perverse celebration of the pessimism that accompanies imperial decline. This delight in decline informs the rich canon of decadence that runs from Joris-Karl Huysmans's À Rebours to Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, Aubrey Beardsley's drawings, Gustav Klimt's paintings, and numerous other works. In this Very Short Introduction, David Weir explores the conflicting attitudes towards modernity present in decadent culture by examining the difference between aesthetic decadence--the excess of artifice--and social decadence, which involves excess in a variety of forms, whether perversely pleasurable or gratuitously cruel. Such contrariness between aesthetic and social decadence led some of its practitioners to substitute art for life and to stress the importance of taste over morality, a maneuver with far-reaching consequences, especially as decadence enters the realm of popular culture today. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Degenerative Realism
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Author : Christy Wampole
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2020-06-23
Degenerative Realism written by Christy Wampole and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
A new strain of realism has emerged in France. The novels that embody it represent diverse fears—immigration and demographic change, radical Islam, feminism, new technologies, globalization, American capitalism, and the European Union—but these books, often best-sellers, share crucial affinities. In their dystopian visions, the collapse of France, Europe, and Western civilization is portrayed as all but certain and the literary mode of realism begins to break down. Above all, they depict a degenerative force whose effects on the nation and on reality itself can be felt. Examining key novels by Michel Houellebecq, Frédéric Beigbeder, Aurélien Bellanger, Yann Moix, and other French writers, Christy Wampole identifies and critiques this emergent tendency toward “degenerative realism.” She considers the ways these writers draw on social science, the New Journalism of the 1960s, political pamphlets, reportage, and social media to construct an atmosphere of disintegration and decline. Wampole maps how degenerative realist novels explore a world contaminated by conspiracy theories, mysticism, and misinformation, responding to the internet age’s confusion between fact and fiction with a lament for the loss of the real and an unrelenting emphasis on the role of the media in crafting reality. In a time of widespread populist anxieties over the perceived decline of the French nation, this book diagnoses the literary symptoms of today’s reactionary revival.
Civil War And The Collapse Of The Social Bond
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Author : Michèle Lowrie
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-10-31
Civil War And The Collapse Of The Social Bond written by Michèle Lowrie and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-31 with History categories.
The Roman tradition represents civil war as a political matter that cuts to the heart of family, sexuality, and society.
Picture World
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Author : Rachel Teukolsky
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-08-16
Picture World written by Rachel Teukolsky and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
The modern media world came into being in the nineteenth century, when machines were harnessed to produce texts and images in unprecedented numbers. In the visual realm, new industrial techniques generated a deluge of affordable pictorial items, mass-printed photographs, posters, cartoons, and illustrations. These alluring objects of the Victorian parlor were miniaturized spectacles that served as portals onto phantasmagoric versions of 'the world.' Although new kinds of pictures transformed everyday life, these ephemeral items have received remarkably little scholarly attention. Picture World shines a welcome new light onto these critically neglected yet fascinating visual objects. They serve as entryways into the nineteenth century's key aesthetic concepts. Each chapter pairs a new type of picture with a foundational keyword in Victorian aesthetics, a familiar term reconceived through the lens of new media. 'Character' appears differently when considered with caricature, in the new comics and cartoons appearing in the mass press in the 1830s; likewise, the book approaches 'realism' through pictorial journalism; 'illustration' via illustrated Bibles; 'sensation' through carte-de-visite portrait photographs; 'the picturesque' by way of stereoscopic views; and 'decadence' through advertising posters. Picture World studies the aesthetic effects of the nineteenth century's media revolution: it uses the relics of a previous era's cultural life to interrogate the Victorian world's most deeply-held values, arriving at insights still relevant in our own media age.
Decadence
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Author : Remy de Gourmont
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-03
Decadence written by Remy de Gourmont and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03 with categories.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Decadence And Other Essays On The Culture Of Ideas
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Author : Remy De Gourmont
language : en
Publisher: Double 9 Books
Release Date : 2024-02
Decadence And Other Essays On The Culture Of Ideas written by Remy De Gourmont and has been published by Double 9 Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
The collection of essays titled "Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas" was written by French Symbolist poet and essayist Remy de Gourmont. With a focus on the concept of decadence, the 1899 book explores a variety of facets of late 19th-century intellectual and cultural life. In these pieces, Gourmont offers insightful analyses of literature, art, and society while delving into the philosophical and cultural changes of the era. A major theme is the idea of decadence, which was a common idea in late 19th-century European philosophy. Gourmont investigates the seeming erosion of conventional norms, the complexity of modernity, and the influence of novel concepts on literature and the arts. Gourmont's ideas on symbolism, the artist's function, the evolving definition of beauty, and the impact of science and technology on culture are all explored in depth in these writings. Gourmont's writing is distinguished by its perceptive insights, poetic language, and depth of thought. Gourmont's examination of decadence is indicative of the wider philosophical and cultural debates of his era, which makes the collection an invaluable tool for anyone studying the development of thought in the late 19th century.
Decadent Subjects
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Author : Charles Bernheimer
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2002-07
Decadent Subjects written by Charles Bernheimer and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-07 with Art categories.
Honorable Mention for the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies from the Modern Language Association Charles Bernheimer described decadence as a "stimulant that bends thought out of shape, deforming traditional conceptual molds." In this posthumously published work, Bernheimer succeeds in making a critical concept out of this perennially fashionable, rarely understood term. Decadent Subjects is a coherent and moving picture of fin de siècle decadence. Mature, ironic, iconoclastic, and thoughtful, this remarkable collection of essays shows the contradictions of the phenomenon, which is both a condition and a state of mind. In seeking to show why people have failed to give a satisfactory account of the term decadence, Bernheimer argues that we often mistakenly take decadence to represent something concrete, that we see as some sort of agent. His salutary response is to return to those authors and artists whose work constitutes the topos of decadence, rereading key late nineteenth-century authors such as Nietzsche, Zola, Hardy, Wilde, Moreau, and Freud to rediscover the very dynamics of the decadent. Through careful analysis of the literature, art, and music of the fin de siècle including a riveting discussion of the many faces of Salome, Bernheimer leaves us with a fascinating and multidimensional look at decadence, all the more important as we emerge from our own fin de siècle.
