The Decadent Image : The Poetry of Wilde, Symons, and Dowson

Name: The Decadent Image
Brand: Edinburgh University Press
SKU: 9780748690923
Price: 18000 KES
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ISBN: 9780748690923

by Kostas Boyiopoulos

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Format Hardback

Book Series Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture

ISBN-10 0748690921

ISBN-13 9780748690923

Publisher Edinburgh University Press

Imprint Edinburgh University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 17th, 2015

Print length 224 Pages

Weight 502 grams

Dimensions 16.60 x 24.10 x 2.10 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: poetry & poets Literary studies: poetry and poets

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This book examines for the first time together poems by three protagonists of the 1890s: Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons, and Ernest Dowson.

This book enquires into the problem of venerating artificiality and the inaccessibility of beauty associated with it whilst engaging in the sensuous, immediate experience as advocated by Walter Pater. It examines for the first time together poems by three protagonists of the 1890s: Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons and Ernest Dowson. It sees their poems as sites where the self sensually collides with or is immersed in their artifice. This is understood through the shift from Aestheticism to Decadence, which is marked by a greater emphasis on heterodox erotic experience. This study examines Wilde''s early poetry and its role in triggering this shift. It shows how the idea of an erotic encounter with artifice reaches its apex in Symons, and how in Dowson it ripens into vexed non-encounters.

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