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Reframing decadence : C.P. Cavafy's imaginary portraits /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jeffreys, Peter (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Prologue : dangerous thoughts
  • "Aesthetic to the point of affliction" : Cavafy and British aestheticism
  • Translating Baudelaire : l'esprit décadent and the early writings
  • Pictorialist poetics : transpositioning word and image
  • Paterian decadence : Hellenism, hedonism and the matter of Rome
  • Cavafy's Byzantium : historicizing fantasies of exquisite decline
  • Epilogue : decadence's gay legacy.