Romancing Decay: Ideas of Decadence in European CultureMichael St. John, Michael Hagiioannu, Michael Saint John 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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Contents
Changing Responses to | 1 |
Political Theory | 17 |
Reading Symptoms of Decadence in Fords Tis Pity Shes a Whore | 27 |
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| Title | Romancing Decay: Ideas of Decadence in European Culture Volume 3 of Studies in European cultural transition |
| Editors | Michael St. John, Michael Hagiioannu, Michael Saint John |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Ashgate, 1999 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Jun 2008 |
| ISBN | 1840146745, 9781840146745 |
| Length | 280 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Collections / Essays Literary Criticism / European / General |
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