A Baedeker of Decadence
Title | A Baedeker of Decadence PDF eBook |
Author | George C. Schoolfield |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 432 |
Release | 2003-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0300047142 |
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.
A Baedeker of Decadence
Title | A Baedeker of Decadence PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 415 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Decadence (Literary movement) |
ISBN | 9780300159202 |
Music and Decadence in European Modernism
Title | Music and Decadence in European Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Downes |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 387 |
Release | 2010-06-03 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0521767571 |
Downes presents a detailed examination of the significance of decadence in Central and Eastern European modernist music.
Decadence
Title | Decadence PDF eBook |
Author | David Weir |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 155 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | SOCIAL SCIENCE |
ISBN | 0190610220 |
Introduction -- Rome: classical decadence -- Paris: cultural decadence -- London: social decadence -- Vienna and Berlin: socio-cultural decadence -- Afterword: legacies of decadence
The Oxford Handbook of Decadence
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Decadence PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Desmarais |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 745 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0190066954 |
Edited by Jane Desmarais and David Weir.
Beyond Decadence
Title | Beyond Decadence PDF eBook |
Author | Butler, Peter |
Publisher | Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press |
Total Pages | 254 |
Release | 2015-09-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 8024625717 |
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.
Decadence, Degeneration, and the End
Title | Decadence, Degeneration, and the End PDF eBook |
Author | Marja Härmänmaa |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 423 |
Release | 2014-11-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1137470860 |
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.