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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Jeffreys, Peter (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Cavafy, Constantine, > 1863-1933.
Cavafy, Constantine, > 1863-1933 > Criticism and interpretation.
Decadence in literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gay Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > General.
Decadence dans la litterature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Prologue : dangerous thoughts
  • "Aesthetic to the point of affliction" : Cavafy and British aestheticism
  • Translating Baudelaire : l'esprit decadent 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.

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