Modernism And The Reinvention Of Decadence
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Modernism And The Reinvention Of Decadence
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Author : Vincent B. Sherry
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015
Modernism And The Reinvention Of Decadence written by Vincent B. Sherry 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 2015 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume explores the idea of decadence through readings of major modernist writers such as Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot.
Modernism And The Reinvention Of Decadence
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Author : Vincent B. Sherry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Modernism And The Reinvention Of Decadence written by Vincent B. Sherry 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.
"In this major new book, Vincent Sherry reveals a fresh continuity in literary history. He traces the idea of decadence back to key events from the failures of the French Revolution to the cataclysm of the Great War. This powerful work of literary criticism and literary history encompasses a rich trajectory that begins with an exposition of the English Romantic poets and ends with a re-evaluation of modernists as varied as W.B. Yeats, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Rebecca West, Djuna Barnes, Samuel Beckett and, centrally, Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot. Sherry's hugely ambitious study will be essential reading for anyone working in modernist studies and twentieth-century literature more generally"--
Decadence In The Age Of Modernism
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Author : Kate Hext
language : en
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Release Date : 2019-07-16
Decadence In The Age Of Modernism written by Kate Hext and has been published by Johns Hopkins University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
Contributors: Howard J. Booth, Joseph Bristow, Ellen Crowell, Nick Freeman, Ellis Hanson, Kate Hext, Kirsten MacLeod, Kristin Mahoney, Douglas Mao, Michèle Mendelssohn, Alex Murray, Sarah Parker, Vincent Sherry
Decadent Catholicism And The Making Of Modernism
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Author : Martin Lockerd
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Decadent Catholicism And The Making Of Modernism written by Martin Lockerd and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
This dissertation intervenes at the meeting point of two current but largely separate critical discourses on (1) the role of fin-de-siècle Decadence in the development of literary Modernism and (2) the relationship between Modernism and Christianity. Two decades after Ellis Hanson’s Decadence and Catholicism (1997), which proved definitively and at length the interdependence of decadent art and the theology, rituals, and symbolism of the Catholic Church, scholars continue to either leave religion out of the discussion of Decadence and Modernism altogether or pay it only glancing attention. Recent years have witnessed a surge of critical interest in the relationship between British Decadence and early-twentieth-century Anglophone literature with the publication of two important books: Vincent Sherry’s Modernism and the Reinvention of Decadence (2015) and Kristin Mahoney’s Literature and the Politics of Post-Victorian Decadence (2015). However, these recent contributions manage to avoid any extended discussion of Catholicism. Similarly, those arguing for a greater recognition of the modernist engagement with Christianity – Pericles Lewis, Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel (2010) and Erik Tonning, Modernism and Christianity (2014) – tend to overlook or downplay decadent artists such as Lionel Johnson and Ernest Dowson. We have yet to fully appreciate the extent to which “high” and “peripheral” modernists such as T. S. Eliot and Evelyn Waugh looked to decadent artists such as Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley for models of what religious art might look like in an age trending toward secularization. The following pages tell a previously untold history. In this history, decadent Catholicism represents much more than a literary trope developed at the fin de siècle and sporadically adopted in the early twentieth century. Through my research, I demonstrate that the very development of modernist literature depended in part on diverse acts of engagement with decadent Catholicism
Decadence And The Making Of Modernism
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Author : David Weir
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
Release Date : 1995
Decadence And The Making Of Modernism written by David Weir and has been published by Univ of Massachusetts Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Literary Criticism categories.
A comparative analysis of the Czech Republic's economic transition after the fall of the Communist bloc, edited by a principal architect of the Czech economic transformation and Economic Advisor to Vaclav Havel. Thirty five essayists (primarily Czech economists) describe the country's macroeconomic performance; its development of capital markets; the structure and performance of its industries; its unemployment, household behavior, and income distribution; and the environmental and health issues it faces. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Decadence And Modernism In European And Russian Literature And Culture
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Author : Jonathan Stone
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-12-12
Decadence And Modernism In European And Russian Literature And Culture written by Jonathan Stone and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
Decadence and Modernism in European and Russian Literature and Culture: Aesthetics and Anxiety in the 1890s rewrites the story of early modernist literature and culture by drawing out the tensions underlying its simultaneous engagement with Decadence and Symbolism, the unsustainable combination of this world and the other. With a broadly framed literary and cultural approach, Jonathan Stone examines a shift in perspective that explodes the notion of reality and showcases the uneasy relationship between the tangible and intangible aspects of the surrounding world. Modernism quenches a growing fascination with the ephemeral and that which cannot be seen while also doubling down on the significance of the material world and finding profound meaning in the physical and the corporeal. Decadence and Symbolism complement the broader historical trajectory of the fin de siècle by affirming the novelty of a modernist mindset and offering an alternative to the empirical and positivistic atmosphere of the nineteenth century. Stone seeks to recreate a significant historical and cultural moment in the development of modernity, a moment that embraces the concept of Decadence while repurposing its aesthetic and social import to help navigate the fundamental changes that accompanied the dawn of the twentieth century.
Decadent Catholicism And The Making Of Modernism
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Author : Martin Lockerd
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-06-25
Decadent Catholicism And The Making Of Modernism written by Martin Lockerd and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
Tracing the movement of literary decadence from the writers of the fin de siècle - Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, Ernest Dowson, and Lionel Johnson - to the modernist writers of the following generation, this book charts the legacy of decadent Catholicism in the fiction and poetry of British and Irish modernists. Linking the later writers with their literary predecessors, Martin Lockerd examines the shifts in representation of Catholic decadence in the works of W. B. Yeats through Ezra Pound to T.S. Eliot; the adoption and transformation of anti-Catholicism in Irish writers George Moore and James Joyce; the Catholic literary revival as portrayed in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited; and the attraction to decadent Catholicism still felt by postmodernist writers D.B.C. Pierre and Alan Hollinghurst. Drawing on new archival research, this study revisits some of the central works of modernist literature and undermines existing myths of modernist newness and secularism to supplant them with a record of spiritual turmoil, metaphysical uncertainty, and a project of cultural subversion that paradoxically relied upon the institutional bulwark of European Christianity. Lockerd explores the aesthetic, sexual, and political implications of the relationship between decadent art and Catholicism as it found a new voice in the works of iconoclastic modernist writers.
Five Faces Of Modernity
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Author : Matei Călinescu
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1987
Five Faces Of Modernity written by Matei Călinescu and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Avant-Garde (Aesthetics) categories.
Five Faces of Modernity is a series of semantic and cultural biographies of words that have taken on special significance in the last century and a half or so: modernity, avant-garde, decadence, kitsch, and postmodernism. The concept of modernity--the notion that we, the living, are different and somehow superior to our predecessors and that our civilization is likely to be succeeded by one even superior to ours--is a relatively recent Western invention and one whose time may already have passed, if we believe its postmodern challengers. Calinescu documents the rise of cultural modernity and, in tracing the shifting senses of the five terms under scrutiny, illustrates the intricate value judgments, conflicting orientations, and intellectual paradoxes to which it has given rise. Five Faces of Modernity attempts to do for the foundations of the modernist critical lexicon what earlier terminological studies have done for such complex categories as classicism, baroque, romanticism, realism, or symbolism and thereby fill a gap in literary scholarship. On another, more ambitious level, Calinescu deals at length with the larger issues, dilemmas, ideological tensions, and perplexities brought about by the assertion of modernity.
The Contemporaneity Of Modernism
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Author : Michael D'Arcy
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-10-23
The Contemporaneity Of Modernism written by Michael D'Arcy and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
At a juncture in which art and culture are saturated with the forces of commodification, this book argues that problems, forms, and positions that defined modernism are crucially relevant to the condition of contemporary art and culture. The volume is attuned to the central concerns of recent scholarship on modernism and contemporary culture: the problems of aesthetic autonomy and the specific role of art in preserving a critical standpoint for cultural production; the relationship between politics and the category of the aesthetic; the problems of temporality and contemporaneity; literary transnationalism; and the questions of medium and medium specificity. Ranging across art forms, mediums, disciplines, and geographical locations, essays address the foundational questions that fuse modernism and the contemporary moment: What is art? What is the relation between art and the economy? How do art and technology interpenetrate and transform each other? What is modernism’s logic of time and contemporaneity, and how might it speak to the problem of thinking genuine novelty, or the possibility of an alternative to the current stage of neo-liberal capitalism? What is modernism, and what is its history? The book is thus committed to revising our understanding of what modernism was in its earlier instantiations, and in accounting for the current moment, addressing the problems raised by modernism's afterlives and reverberations in the 20th and 21st centuries. The volume includes essays that consider literature, sociology, philosophy, visual art, music, architecture, digital culture, television, and other artistic media. It synthesizes the most recent thinking on modernism and contemporary culture and presents a compelling case for what happens to literature, art, and culture in the wake of the exhaustion of postmodernism. This book will be of interest to those studying literature, visual art, media studies, architecture, literary theory, modernism, and twentieth-century and contemporary culture more generally.
Nordic Literature Of Decadence
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Author : Pirjo Lyytikäinen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-07-11
Nordic Literature Of Decadence written by Pirjo Lyytikäinen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
Nordic Literature of Decadence fills a gap on the map of world literature and participates in a thriving area of research by extending the investigation of broadly understood fin de siècle decadence to unexplored areas of Nordic literature, which remain practically unknown to Anglophone audiences. In the Nordic countries the new Parisian movements were seen as having caused a malicious invasion, a ‘black flood’ that was spreading over the North destroying the very foundations of Nordic national cultures. Nevertheless, the appeal of this controversial movement was irresistible to discontents and innovators, even in countries where the old moral, religious and nationalist atmosphere still retained its stranglehold and modern urban, industrial and social developments lagged behind that of the metropoles breeding this new literature and art. The Nordic countries developed their own distinctive manifestations of decadence favouring allegorical and allusive forms, local rural settings and depictions of primitive nature, coupling the philosophical underpinnings of fin-de-siècle decadence with ancient Nordic mythology and rising national movements. Nordic decadence thus became a distinctive and recognizable phenomenon, which travelled back to France and other European countries, influencing the ongoing debate on decadence as it was conducted on a global scale. Nordic Literature of Decadence discusses literature from five Nordic countries: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Estonia and offers additional and alternative perspectives to the cosmopolitan traffic and cultural exchanges of literary decadence that have been explored so far in the English language scholarship.