Perennial decay : on the aesthetics and politics of decadence /

When Oscar Wilde was convicted of gross indecency in 1895, a reporter for the National Observer wrote that there was "not a man or a woman in the English-speaking world possessed of the treasure of a wholesome mind who is not under a deep debt of gratitude to the marquis of Queensberry for dest...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Constable, Liz, Denisoff, Dennis, 1961-, Potolsky, Matthew
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1999.
Colección:New cultural studies.
Temas:
1800-1999
Decadence (Literary movement)
Decadence in art.
Arts, Modern > 19th century.
Arts, Modern > 20th century.
Aesthetics, Modern > 19th century.
Aesthetics, Modern > 20th century.
Décadentisme.
Décadence dans l'art.
Arts > 19e siècle.
Arts > 20e siècle.
Esthétique > 19e siècle.
Esthétique > 20e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > General.
Aesthetics, Modern.
Arts, Modern.
Decadentie.
Letterkunde.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Interversions
  • Chapter 2. Unknowing Decadence
  • Chapter 3. Decadent Paradoxes
  • Chapter 4. Posing a Threat
  • Chapter 5. Decadent Critique
  • Chapter 6. Opera and the Discourse of Decadence
  • Chapter 7. Spaces of the Demimonde/Subcultures of Decadence: 1890-I990
  • Chapter 8. "Comment Peut-on Être Homosexuel?"
  • Chapter 9. The Politics of Posing
  • Chapter 10. Improper Names
  • Chapter 11. Imperial Dependency, Addiction, and the Decadent Body
  • Chapter 12. Pale Imitations
  • Chapter 13. "Golden Mediocrity"
  • Chapter 14. Fetishizing Writing
  • Chapter 15. Ce ″Bazar Intellectual"
  • Contributors
  • Index

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