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Author : Stephen Downes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521767576
Downes presents a detailed examination of the significance of decadence in Central and Eastern European modernist music.
Author : Marja Härmänmaa,Christopher Nissen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137470867
Art and literature during the European fin-de-siècle period often manifested themes of degeneration and decay, both of bodies and civilizations, as well as illness, bizarre sexuality, and general morbidity. This collection explores these topics in relation to artists and writers as diverse as Oscar Wilde, August Strindberg, and Aubrey Beardsley.
Author : Kirsten MacLeod
Publisher : Springer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230504004
Fictions of British Decadence is a fresh account of the emergence, development and legacy of fiction written in the era of Oscar Wilde. It examines a broad range of texts by a diverse array of Decadent writers, from familiar figures such as Ernest Dowson and John Davidson to lesser-known innovators such as Arthur Machen and M.P. Shiel.
Author : Jane Desmarais,David Weir
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190066956
Edited by Jane Desmarais and David Weir.
Author : Robin E. Field,Jerrica Jordan
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781638040378
#MeToo and Modernism offers a blend of cultural, historical, literary, and pedagogical responses applied to the themes behind today’s ongoing #MeToo Movement. This volume is organized into four sections: a three-part chronological response in which scholars analyze literary understandings of how ripples of the #MeToo Movement began to emerge in Modernist literature, followed by a pedagogical section on how to incorporate such teachings in university classrooms. Editors Robin E. Field and Jerrica Jordan foreword the collection with an introduction answering the question of why such a volume is necessary in today’s educational landscape. The introduction summarizes the current scholarship regarding #MeToo and Modernism, while also uncovering the omissions, particularly in approaching nonbinary or queer writers, as well as writers of color, that still exist; as a response, many of these essays attempt to approach these gaps. Furthermore, the introduction shows how more traditional Modernist writers--including Woolf, Forster, Wells, and Joyce--served as forerunners of early glimmers of the #MeToo Movement in Modernist Literature.
Author : Daniel R. Schwarz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118693414
An exploration of the modern European novel from a renowned English literature scholar Reading the Modern European Novel since 1900 is an engaging, in-depth examination of the evolution of the modern European novel. Written in Daniel R. Schwarz's precise and highly readable style, this critical study offers compelling discussions on a wide range of major works since 1900 and examines recurring themes within the context of significant historical events, including both World Wars and the Holocaust. The author cites important developments in the evolution of the modern novel and explores how these paradigmatic works of fiction reflect intellectual and cultural history, including developments in painting and cinema. Schwarz focuses on narrative complexity, thematic subtlety, and formal originality as well as how novels render historical events and cultural developments Discussing major works by Proust, Camus, Mann, Kafka, Grass, di Lampedusa, Bassani, Kertesz, Pamuk, Kundera, Saramago, Muller and Ferrante, Schwarz explores how these often experimental masterworks pay homage to the their major predecessors—discussed in Schwarz's ground-breaking Reading the European Novel to 1900—even while proposing radical departures from realism in their approach to time and space, their testing the limits of language, and their innovative ways of rendering the human psyche. Written for teachers and students by a highly-acclaimed scholar and including valuable study questions, Reading the Modern European Novel since 1900 offers a guide for a deeper understanding of how these original modern masters respond to both the past and present.
Author : I. Amano
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137377432
Decadence is a concept that designates a given historical moment as a phase of decay and valorizes the past as an irretrievable golden age. This study offers an innovative examination of a century of Japanese fiction through the analytical prism of decadence.
Author : Robert Ziegler
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789042027015
Asymptote: An Approach to Decadent Fiction offers a radically new approach to the psychology of Decadent creation. Rejecting traditional arguments that Decadence is a celebration of deviance and exhaustion, this study presents the fin-de-siecle novel as a transformative process, a quest for health. By allowing the writer to project into fiction unwanted traits and destructive tendencies – by permitting the playful invention of provisional identities –, Decadent creation itself becomes a dynamic act of creative regeneration. In describing the interrelationship of Decadent authors and their fictions, Asymptote uses the mathematical figure of the asymptote to show how they converge, then split apart, and grow distant. The author’s approach to the facsimile selves he plays with and discards is the curve that never merges with his authorial identity. In successive chapters, this study describes the Decadents’ experimentation with perversion (Huysmans’s A rebours and Mendes’s Zo’har), and their subsequent validation of social regulation and creative discipline. It examines magic and its appeal to fantasies of elitism and omnipotence (Péladan’s Le Vice supreme and Villiers’s Axël ), then shows authors embracing the values of community and service. It considers the Decadent text as a vehicle of change in which an artist ventilates fantasies of aggression and revenge (Mirbeau’s Le Journal d’une femme de chamber and Rachilde’s La Marquise de Sade) then employs writing as the means by which these feelings are discharged. It examines creation as a form of play, “une aliénation grâce à laquelle l’esprit se récupère sous la forme des autres” (Schwob’s Vies imaginaries and Lorrain’s Histoires de masques), yet notes the Decadents’ decision to return to a single generative center. Finally, it examines creation as an expression of artistic transience and failure, yet shows the Decadents’ success in commemorating the very forces of disintegration (Rodenbach’s L’Art en exil). In considering the Decadents’ insistence on subjectivism and aloneness, this study concludes (Gourmont’s Sixtine) by showing their wish to escape the prison of identity and to redefine their art as cooperative creation.
Author : Nicholas B. Dirks
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400840946
When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common parlance alike, caste has become a central symbol for India, marking it as fundamentally different from other places while expressing its essence. Nicholas Dirks argues that caste is, in fact, neither an unchanged survival of ancient India nor a single system that reflects a core cultural value. Rather than a basic expression of Indian tradition, caste is a modern phenomenon--the product of a concrete historical encounter between India and British colonial rule. Dirks does not contend that caste was invented by the British. But under British domination caste did become a single term capable of naming and above all subsuming India's diverse forms of social identity and organization. Dirks traces the career of caste from the medieval kingdoms of southern India to the textual traces of early colonial archives; from the commentaries of an eighteenth-century Jesuit to the enumerative obsessions of the late-nineteenth-century census; from the ethnographic writings of colonial administrators to those of twentieth-century Indian scholars seeking to rescue ethnography from its colonial legacy. The book also surveys the rise of caste politics in the twentieth century, focusing in particular on the emergence of caste-based movements that have threatened nationalist consensus. Castes of Mind is an ambitious book, written by an accomplished scholar with a rare mastery of centuries of Indian history and anthropology. It uses the idea of caste as the basis for a magisterial history of modern India. And in making a powerful case that the colonial past continues to haunt the Indian present, it makes an important contribution to current postcolonial theory and scholarship on contemporary Indian politics.
Author : S. Glynn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780230392236
The first detailed examination of the place of pop music film in British cinema, Stephen Glynn explores the interpenetration of music and cinema in an economic, social and aesthetic context through case studies ranging from Cliff Richard to The Rolling Stones, and from The Beatles to Plan B.
Author : Rowan Pelling,Amelia Hodsdon,James Doyle
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781907650680
Select guidance on extreme cuisine,gutter beverages,tawdry travel, seedy films, dissolute sex and corrupt individuals. Featuring contributions from the 19th century's anti-heroes - Oscar Wilde,Octave Mirbeau and J.K.Huysmans and the wayward spirits of our age- Hari Kunzru, Nicholas Royle, Louise Welsh, Helen Walsh, Belle de Jour
Author : Carol A. Breckenridge,Peter van der Veer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0812214366
This book explores the ways in which colonial administrators constructed knowledge about the society and culture of India and the processes through which that knowledge has shaped past and present Indian reality.
Author : Stephanie Damore
Publisher : Pink Sapphire Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Celebrate the holidays with Claire and Nick and the mysteries of Bleu Clair Bay. Ever wonder what Claire thought the first time she saw her husband's ghost? Or what the first mystery was the duo ever solved? Wonder no more and read Semisweet Surprise—the mystery that started it all. Put on your sleuthing cap and dive into this boxed set. From the death of Nick's grandmother, to a wealthy real-estate developer's murder, and a New Year's Eve party that ends with a corpse in the closet, these short mysteries are sure to leave you wanting to read more! In Claire's own words: "Life's funny. One minute you're living it up, and the next, you're seeing dead people. Nick London told me he'd love me forever, and I guess he meant it because now my husband's ghost is popping up everywhere. And his isn't the only one. Either I've lost my mind, or the dead have something to say. Regardless, it's a mystery. One that I intend to solve." This boxed set includes the first three mysteries of the series, plus a BONUS story. Enjoy!
Author : Stephanie Damore
Publisher : Pink Sapphire Press
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
It's summertime in Bleu Clair Bay. The best time of the year for this touristy northern Michigan town. Claire and Nick have settled into a new routine, albeit a bit of an unnatural one. The bakery is back open and busy, and mysteries have been few and far between. All seems right with the world. That is until Deputy Preston's spirit makes an appearance. It turns out he's not dead, but he's having an out-of-body experience. After being attacked on the job, he's left unconscious in the hospital, and he's counting on Claire and Nick to solve the case and bring the bad guy to justice. Are our favorite paranormal mystery-solving duo up to the challenge? Only one way to find out.
Author : Stephanie Damore
Publisher : Stephanie Damore Paranormal Cozy Mysteries
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
It's New Year's Eve, and I'm ready to welcome the New Year. But when the clock strikes twelve and a curse is unleashed, old acquaintances will be anything but forgotten. Who has it out for Silverlake? Or maybe our magical town isn't the target. Because when the snow settles, two women are left frozen at the center of it all—our persnickety mayor and an up-and-coming WNN news anchor. Both women's personalities aren't going to make this an easy case. Regardless, it'll take more than a bewitched blizzard to keep me from tracking the clues. There isn't a minute to spare. If I don't catch the culprit, two women remain frozen forever.