Decadence and Modernism in European and Russian Literature and Culture Aesthetics and Anxiety in the 1890s /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Stone, Jonathan (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Literature, Modern-19th century.; British literature.; European literature.; Aesthetics.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; British and Irish Literature.; European Literature.

Decadence and Modernism in European and Russian Literature and Culture: Aesthetics and Anxiety in the 1890s rewrites the story of early modernist literature and culture by drawing out the tensions underlying its simultaneous engagement with Decadence and Symbolism, the unsustainable combination of t...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: Visible and Invisible Modernity
• 2. Decadent Style with a Symbolist Worldview: Palimpsest, Mise en abyme, and the Perils of Profound Superficiality
• 3. Decadent Metaphysics
• 4. The Danger of Seeing Too Much: Fin-de-siècle Ethics and Aesthetics in Oscar Wilde's Salome
• 5. Meaningfulness and Superficiality: Joseph Conrad's Surface Truths
• 6. When Metaphor Throttles Metonymy: The Perils of Misreading in Georges Rodenbach's Bruges-la-Morte
• 7. Conclusion: Fin-de-siècle Endings and Beginnings.