The Decadent Image : The Poetry of Wilde, Symons, and Dowson
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
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 31st, 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
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Examines the poems by three protagonists of the 1890s: Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons, and Ernest Dowson. This book sees their poems as sites where the self sensually collides with or is immersed in their artifice. It shows how the idea of an erotic encounter with artifice reaches its apex in Symons, and how in Dowson it ripens into non encounters.
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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