Romancing Decay : Ideas of Decadence in European Culture
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Studies in European Cultural Transition
ISBN-10
1840146745
ISBN-13
9781840146745
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 9th, 1999
Print length
304 Pages
Weight
566 grams
Product Classification:
Literary studies: generalCultural studies
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This collection of fifteen essays looks at the theme of decadence and its recurring manifestations in European literature and literary criticism from medieval times to the present day.
This collection of fifteen essays looks at the theme of decadence and its recurring manifestations in European literature and literary criticism from medieval times to the present day. Various definitions of the term are explored, including the notion of decadence as physical decay. Some of the essays draw parallels between modernist and postmodernist notions of decadence. Similarities are detected between fin de siècle decadence at the end of the nineteenth century (which reaches its apotheosis in the character of Eugene Wrayburn in Our Mutual Friend) and depictions of decadence in our own age as we enter the new millennium.
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