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Alice Perrers
Antonio Tabucchi
Aquinas
Author_Michael St John
Baudelaire
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comparative literary analysis
Crimson
cultural criticism
decadence in European literature criticism
decadent
Decadent Poets
Della
dorian
Dorian Gray
duse
Edward III
eleonora
Eleonora Duse
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fin de siA?cle studies
Follow
gallienne
Glare
Grace Abounding
gray
Honeymoon
La Gioconda
Literary Decadence
literary modernism
Modern French Poetry
pity
poets
Post-war
postmodernist theory
Rehearsal Transpros
richard
Richard Le Gallienne
Swift's Proposal
tis
Tis Pity
urban decay literature
Wandering
William Edmondstoune Aytoun
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781840146745
- Weight: 566g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 09 Dec 1999
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This collection of fifteen essays looks at the theme of decadence and its recurring manifestations in European literature and literary criticism from medieval times to the present day. Various definitions of the term are explored, including the notion of decadence as physical decay. Some of the essays draw parallels between modernist and postmodernist notions of decadence. Similarities are detected between fin de siècle decadence at the end of the nineteenth century (which reaches its apotheosis in the character of Eugene Wrayburn in Our Mutual Friend) and depictions of decadence in our own age as we enter the new millennium.
Michael St John, University of Leicester, UK David Salter, Michael StJohn, Carla Dente, Michael Davies, Vincent Newey, Julian North, Nicholas Daly, Andrew StJohn, Julie Dashwood, Susan Bassnett, Andrew Hammond, Martin Halliwell, Daniel Cordle, Tristram Hooley, Marina Spunta, Nicholas Zurbrugg, Amir Ali Nojoumian, Mark Rawlinson, Martin L. Davies.
