Decadences - Morality and Aesthetics in British Literature
2. enlarged edition
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Studies in English Literatures
ISBN-10
3898215733
ISBN-13
9783898215732
Edition
2. enlarged edition
Publisher
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
Imprint
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Scho
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 1st, 2014
Print length
430 Pages
Weight
552 grams
Dimensions
20.90 x 14.90 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: general
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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-á-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.
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