Decadence and the making of modernism /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Weir, David, 1947 April 20- (συγγραφέας)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1995.
• Θέματα: Παρακμή (Λογοτεχνικό ρεύμα); Μοντερνισμός (Λογοτεχνία); Λογοτεχνικά ρεύματα; Λογοτεχνία, Μοντέρνα > Ιστορία και κριτική. > 19ος αιώνας

The cultural phenomenon known as "decadence" has often been viewed as an ephemeral artistic vogue that fluorished briefly in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe. This study makes the case for decadence as a literary movement in its own right, based on a set of aesthetic pri...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• The Definition of decadence
• Decadence and romanticism: Flabuert's Salammbô
• Decadence and naturalism: The Goncourt's Germinie Lacerteux
• Decadence and aestheticism: Pater's Marius the epicurean
• Decadence and décadisme: A rebours and afterward
• Decadence and modernism: Joyce and Gide
• The decline of decadence.