Decadence and the Making of Modernism
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American aestheticism
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comparative literature
counter-culture aesthetics
cultural decadence
cultural pessimism
cultural theory literature
cultural transition
decadent poetry
Edmond de Goncourt
English decadence
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erotic literature history
European literary history
European novel history
fin-de-siecle literature
French symbolism
Gustave Flaubert
high culture critique
Italian decadentismo
Joris-Karl Huysmans
late nineteenth century culture
literary culture history
literary decadence theory
literary genealogy
literary misconceptions
literary periodization
literary schools
literary sensibility
literary style analysis
literary subcultures
modernist precursors
moral decline narrative
multiculturalism and aesthetics
naturalism and aestheticism
nineteenth century novels
Oscar Wilde
Parnassianism
popular culture theory
postmodern aesthetics
prose aesthetics
realism and decadence
romanticism to modernism
sensory aesthetics
structural literary analysis
style over substance
thematic literary study
transgressive aesthetics
transitional literary movements
twentieth century origins
Walter Pater
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- ISBN 9780870239922
- Weight: 460g
- Dimensions: 165 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 05 Jan 1996
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 principles that formed a transitional link between romanticism and modernism. Understood in this developmental context, decadence represents the aesthetic substratum of a wide range of fin-de-siecle literary schools, including naturalism, realism, Parnassianism, aestheticism, and symbolism. As an impulse toward modernism, it prefigures the thematic, structural, and stylistic concerns of later literature. David Weir demonstrates his thesis by analyzing a number of French, English, Italian, and American novels, each associated with some specific decadent literary tendency. The book concludes by arguing that the decadent sensibility persists in popular culture and contemporary theory, with multiculturalism and postmodernism representing its most current manifestations.
