Reframing Decadence : C. P. Cavafy's Imaginary Portraits /

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During his sojourn in England during the 1870s, a young Cavafy found himself enthralled by the aesthetic movement of cosmopolitan London. It was during these years that he encountered the canvases and personalities of Pre-Raphaelite painters, including Burne-Jones and Whistler, as well as works of a...

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Autor principal: Jeffreys, Peter (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2016]
Temas:
Decadence in literature.
Literary Studies.
Poetry & Criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Prologue: "Dangerous Thoughts"
  • 1. "Aesthetic to the point of affliction": Cavafy and British Aestheticism 1. "Aesthetic to the point of affliction": Cavafy and British Aestheticism
  • 2. Translating Baudelaire: L'esprit Décadent and the Early Writings
  • 3. Pictorialist Poetics: Transpositioning Word and Image
  • 4. Paterian Decadence: Hellenism, Hedonism, and the Matter of Rome
  • 5. Cavafy's Byzantium: Historicizing Fantasies of Exquisite Decline
  • Epilogue: Decadence's Gay Legacy
  • Bibliography
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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