Seeds Of Decadence In The Late Nineteenth Century Novel
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Seeds Of Decadence In The Late Nineteenth Century Novel
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Author : Suzanne Nalbantian
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1988-08-22
Seeds Of Decadence In The Late Nineteenth Century Novel written by Suzanne Nalbantian and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-08-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
A comparative assessment of the transmutation of a decadent mentality into an identifiable narrative style. The author examines the work of five major novelists in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and attempts to trace perplexities, perversities and combinations of excess.
Decadence And The 1890s
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Author : Ian Fletcher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Decadence And The 1890s written by Ian Fletcher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Literary Criticism categories.
Against The Grain
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Author : Joris-Karl Huysmans
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2021-04-10
Against The Grain written by Joris-Karl Huysmans and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-10 with Fiction categories.
Against the Grain is about eccentric and reclusive asethete Jean des Esseintes. The last scion of an aristocratic family, Des Esseintes loathes nineteenth-century bourgeois society and tries to retreat into an ideal artistic world of his creation. You will love this culture-filled representation of high-class 19th-century French society.
The Shape Of Fear
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Author : Susan Jennifer Navarette
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2021-05-11
The Shape Of Fear written by Susan Jennifer Navarette and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-11 with Social Science categories.
During the last decades of the nineteenth century, Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley, Walter Pater and others changed the nature of thought concerning the human body and the physical environment that had shaped it. In response, the 1890s saw the publication of a series of remarkable literary works that had their genesis in the intense scientific and aesthetic activity of those preceding decades—texts that emphasized themes of degeneration and were themselves stylistically decompositive, with language both a surrogate for physical deformity and a source of anxiety. Susan J. Navarette examines the ways in which scientific and cultural concerns of late nineteenth-century England are coded in the horror literature of the period. By contextualizing the structural, stylistic, and thematic systems developed by writers seeking to reenact textually the entropic forces they perceived in the natural world, Navarette reconstructs the late Victorian mentalité. She analyzes aesthetic responses to trends in contemporary science and explores horror writers' use of scientific methodologies to support their perception that a long-awaited period of cultural decline had begun. In her analysis of the classics Turn of the Screw and Heart of Darkness, Navarette shows how James and Conrad made artistic use of earlier "scientific" readings of the body. She also considers works by lesser-known authors Walter de la Mare, Vernon Lee, and Arthur Machen, who produced fin de siècle stories that took the form of "hybrid literary monstrosities." To underscore the fascination with bodily decay and deformation that these writers explored, The Shape of Fear is enhanced with prints and line drawings by Victor Hugo, James Ensor, and other artists of the day. This elegantly written book formulates a new canon of late Victorian fiction that will intrigue scholars of literature and cultural history.
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.
The Facts On File Companion To The French Novel
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Author : Karen L. Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2006
The Facts On File Companion To The French Novel written by Karen L. Taylor and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Electronic books categories.
French novels such as "Madame Bovary" and "The Stranger" are staples of high school and college literature courses. This work provides coverage of the French novel since its origins in the 16th century, with an emphasis on novels most commonly studied in high school and college courses in world literature and in French culture and civilization.
Decadences Morality And Aesthetics In British Literature
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Author : Paul Fox
language : en
Publisher: ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press
Release Date : 2014-05-01
Decadences Morality And Aesthetics In British Literature written by Paul Fox and has been published by ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This revised and expanded volume examines the intersections of aesthetics and morality and asks what Decadence means to art and society at various moments in British literature. As time passes, the definition of what it takes to be D/decadent changes. The decline from a higher standard, social malaise, aesthetic ennui – all these ideas presume certain facts about the past, the present, and the linear nature of time itself. To reject the past as a given, and to relish the subtleties of present nuance, is the beginning of Decadence. The conflict underlying the contributions to this collection is that of society's moral contempt vis-a-vis the focus on the fleeting present on part of the purportedly decadent artists; who in turn thought the truly decadent to be the stranglehold society maintained on individual interpretation and the interpretation of oneself.
Edmond De Goncourt And The Novel
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Author : Katherine Ashley
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-11-22
Edmond De Goncourt And The Novel written by Katherine Ashley and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-22 with Social Science categories.
Edmond de Goncourt’s four solo novels are not simply extensions of the Goncourt brothers’ joint project, but attempts to deviate from the Naturalism with which their name had come to be associated. By analysing paratexts, the relationship between documentation and fiction, as well as plot devices and themes, this study links the evolution of Goncourt’s fiction to wider literary debates surrounding Naturalism, Decadence and the renewal of the novel in fin de siècle France. In bringing Goncourt’s writings to an English-speaking public, it will be of interest to students and scholars of the literary history of late-nineteenth-century France.
Victorian Contexts
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Author : Murray Roston
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1996-09-30
Victorian Contexts written by Murray Roston and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-09-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Examines how both artist and writer in the Victorian era responded to the shared challenges, assumptions, and dilemmas of their time, often unaware that the same problems were being confronted in the kindred media. The placing of such writers as Dickens, G.Eliot, Hopkins, and Henry James within the context of Victorian painting, architecture, and interior design offers fresh insights into their works, as well as reassessments of such themes as the mid-century representation of the Fallen Woman or the impact of commodity culture upon contemporary aesthetic standards.
Fiction Of The Modern Grotesque
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Author : Bernard McElroy
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1989-07-31
Fiction Of The Modern Grotesque written by Bernard McElroy and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-07-31 with Literary Criticism categories.