The decadent image : the poetry of Wilde, Symons and Dowson /

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Explores culturally significant encounters between sensuality and artificiality in the poetry of Wilde, Symons, and Dowson. This book enquires into the problem of venerating artificiality and the inaccessibility of beauty associated with it whilst engaging in the sensuous, immediate experience as it...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boyiopoulos, Kostas (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015]
Colección:Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
Temas:
Wilde, Oscar, > 1854-1900 > Criticism and interpretation.
Symons, Arthur, > 1865-1945 > Criticism and interpretation.
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, > 1867-1900 > Criticism and interpretation.
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, > 1867-1900
Symons, Arthur, > 1865-1945
Wilde, Oscar, > 1854-1900
1800-1899
Decadence (Literary movement) > England.
English poetry > 19th century > History and criticism.
Décadentisme > Angleterre.
Poésie anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Decadence (Literary movement)
English poetry
England
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction: Sensual Text, Textual Sense: Aestheticism to Decadence
  • Part One: OSCAR WILDE. 2. 'That love-enraptured tune': Eros and Art(ifice); 3. 'Charmides' and The Sphinx: Crashing into Objets d'Art
  • Part Two: ARTHUR SYMONS. 4. Strangeness and the City: The Self among Fragmented Impressions; 5. Bianca's Body: Nerves and the Flâneurie of Flesh
  • Part Three: ERNEST DOWSON. 6. 'A Little While': Expiration in Suspension; 7. Closely Apart: Aestheticising the Non-encounter
  • 8. Coda: Modernist Responses.

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