Spectrum Of Decadence

Author : Murray Pittock,Pro Vice-Principal and Bradley Professor Murray Pittock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2016-02-04
Category : Decadence (Literary movement)
ISBN : 1138799149

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Spectrum of Decadence (Routledge Revivals) by Murray Pittock,Pro Vice-Principal and Bradley Professor Murray Pittock Pdf

The 1890s, the Naughty Nineties, was an exciting and flamboyant time in British life and literature. First published in 1993, this title traces the genesis of the literary culture of the 1890s through some of the popular novels and literary texts of the period. By examining works by such writers as Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, W. B. Yeats, and Walter Pater, Murray Pittock analyses the nature of the 'Decadent era' and the artistic theories of Symbolism and Aestheticism. Significantly, he provides a full assessment of the lasting impact that the thought of the period has had on our own understanding of our cultural past. Spectrum of Decadence explores the confrontations between art and science, sex and mortality, desire and virtue, which, the author argues are as much a part of modern society's fin-de-siécle as they were of the nineteenth century's. This reissue bridges the gap between literary texts, historical context, and contemporary critical theory.

Author : Murray Pittock
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Decadence (Literary movement)
ISBN : 0415077575

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Spectrum of Decadence by Murray Pittock Pdf

Author : Martin Lockerd
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350137660

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Decadent Catholicism and the Making of Modernism by Martin Lockerd Pdf

Tracing the movement of literary decadence from the writers of the fin de siècle - Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, Ernest Dowson, and Lionel Johnson - to the modernist writers of the following generation, this book charts the legacy of decadent Catholicism in the fiction and poetry of British and Irish modernists. Linking the later writers with their literary predecessors, Martin Lockerd examines the shifts in representation of Catholic decadence in the works of W. B. Yeats through Ezra Pound to T.S. Eliot; the adoption and transformation of anti-Catholicism in Irish writers George Moore and James Joyce; the Catholic literary revival as portrayed in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited; and the attraction to decadent Catholicism still felt by postmodernist writers D.B.C. Pierre and Alan Hollinghurst. Drawing on new archival research, this study revisits some of the central works of modernist literature and undermines existing myths of modernist newness and secularism to supplant them with a record of spiritual turmoil, metaphysical uncertainty, and a project of cultural subversion that paradoxically relied upon the institutional bulwark of European Christianity. Lockerd explores the aesthetic, sexual, and political implications of the relationship between decadent art and Catholicism as it found a new voice in the works of iconoclastic modernist writers.

Author : Murray Pittock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0861878086

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Literature in Transition, 1880-1914 by Murray Pittock Pdf

Author : Butler, Peter
Publisher : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788024625713

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Beyond Decadence by Butler, Peter Pdf

Jan Opolsky has long been considered to be little more than an epigon of the Czech Decadence. By detailed analysis of his prose, this book aims to show that Opolsky is a master of sustained narrative irony and an accomplished writer in his own right. Introduction brings an overview of Czech Decadent/Symbolist literature and art in an European perspective. The first monograph evaluates archival sources, private correspondence with other literary figures and includes classified bibliography of Opolsky.

Author : Alex Murray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107169661

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Landscapes of Decadence by Alex Murray Pdf

This book explores the relationship between literary politics and the politics of place in fin-de-siècle travel and place-based literature.

Author : Fusheng Wu
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791437515

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The Poetics of Decadence by Fusheng Wu Pdf

A reconsideration of Chinese decadent (tuifei) poetry which argues that this poetry is not a marginal trend but rather a vital part of the Chinese literary tradition.

Author : Jane Desmarais,David Weir
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190066956

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The Oxford Handbook of Decadence by Jane Desmarais,David Weir Pdf

Edited by Jane Desmarais and David Weir.

Author : Kirsten MacLeod
Publisher : Springer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230504004

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Fictions of British Decadence by Kirsten MacLeod Pdf

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 : George C. Schoolfield
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300047141

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A Baedeker of Decadence by George C. Schoolfield Pdf

During the final decades of the nineteenth century, a common mind-set emerged among many intellectuals--"la decadence." Many novels and novellas of the period were populated with protagonists who were fragile, refined, self-absorbed, and preoccupied with a trivially exquisite aesthetic. A Baedeker of Decadence presents thirty-two international works of literary decadence written between 1884 and 1927. George C. Schoolfield, a world authority on the decadent novel, offers an entertaining and wide-ranging commentary on this highly significant literary and cultural phenomenon. Schoolfield tracks down the symptoms of decadence in narrative works written in more than a dozen languages, providing synopses and passages in English translation to give a sense of each author's style and tone. Schoolfield throws new light on the close intellectual kinship of authors from August Strindberg to Bram Stoker to Thomas Mann, and on the ingredients, themes, motifs, and preconceptions that characterized decadent literature.

Author : Kostas Boyiopoulos
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780748692163

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Decadent Short Story by Kostas Boyiopoulos Pdf

This wide-ranging anthology showcases for the first time the short story as the most attractive genre for British writers who experimented with Decadent themes and styles. The selections represent the important role that magazine culture played in th

Author : J. Hall,A. Murray
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137348296

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Decadent Poetics by J. Hall,A. Murray Pdf

Decadent Poetics explores the complex and vexed topic of decadent literature's formal characteristics and interrogates previously held assumptions around the nature of decadent form. Writers studied include Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire and Algernon Charles Swinburne, as well as A.E. Housman, Arthur Machen and Hubert Crackanthorpe.

Author : Alex Murray
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192673961

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Decadent Conservatism by Alex Murray Pdf

British Decadent literature was a radical attack on conventional morality and middle-class taste, its insistence on the autonomy of art and its exploration of sexuality, dissipation, and depravity at odds with the literary and social establishment. Yet this counter-cultural narrative has obscured the often reactionary and elitist tendencies of Decadent writers and artists of the fin de siècle. Decadent Conservatism offers the first in-depth examination of the intersection of Decadence and conservatism, arguing that underpinning both was the desire to find alternatives to liberal modernity. Both Decadents and conservatives turned to the past to uncover values and models of social organisation that could offer stability in a chaotic world. From well-known figures such as Oscar Wilde and W.B. Yeats, through to the forgotten editors of short-lived periodicals, important female aesthetes such as Michael Field, and politicians such as Arthur Balfour, Decadent Conservatism challenges conventional understandings of the relationship between aesthetics, politics, and the past in late-Victorian Britain. Through a series of thematic chapters exploring the alternative communities created by little magazines, the politics of Individualism, investments in monarchy and religion, Folk Decadence, and jingoistic and nationalist responses to the Second Anglo-Boer war, this study offers a new, and much messier, picture of fin-de-siècle literary politics. It will be of interest to those working on Victorian literature and modernism, as well as social, political, and cultural history of the period 1880-1920.

Author : Ben Hutchinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191080333

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Lateness and Modern European Literature by Ben Hutchinson Pdf

Modern European literature has traditionally been seen as a series of attempts to assert successive styles of writing as 'new'. In this groundbreaking study, Ben Hutchinson argues that literary modernity can in fact be understood not as that which is new, but as that which is 'late'. Exploring the ways in which European literature repeatedly defines itself through a sense of senescence or epigonality, Hutchinson shows that the shifting manifestations of lateness since romanticism express modernity's continuing quest for legitimacy. With reference to a wide range of authors—from Mary Shelley, Chateaubriand, and Immermann, via Baudelaire, Henry James, and Nietzsche, to Valé©ry, Djuna Barnes, and Adorno— he combines close readings of canonical texts with historical and theoretical comparisons of numerous national contexts. Out of this broad comparative sweep emerges a taxonomy of lateness, of the diverse ways in which modern writers can be understood, in the words of Nietzsche, as 'creatures facing backwards'. Ambitious and original, Lateness and Modern European Literature offers a significant new model for understanding literary modernity.

Author : Kostas Boyiopoulos
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748690930

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Decadent Image by Kostas Boyiopoulos Pdf

This book examines for the first time together poems by three protagonists of the 1890s: Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons, and Ernest Dowson.