Buch

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Übersicht

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Verlag	:	ibidem
Buchreihe	:	Studies in English Literatures (Bd. 2)
Sprache	:	Englisch
Erschienen	:	03. 2014
Seiten	:	430
Einband	:	Kartoniert
Höhe	:	210 mm
Breite	:	150 mm
ISBN	:	9783898215732
Sprache	:	Englisch

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Autorinformation

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Paul Fox (Ph.D. University of Georgia) is an Associate Professor at East Georgia College. He has published articles upon fin de siècle aesthetics, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde and J. M. Barrie. He is currently completing a book-length study of Decadence and aesthetic time.

Produktinformation

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This revised and expanded volume examines the intersections of aesthetics and morality and asks what Decadence means to art and society at various moments in British literature. As time passes, the definition of what it takes to be D/decadent changes. The decline from a higher standard, social malaise, aesthetic ennui – all these ideas presume certain facts about the past, the present, and the linear nature of time itself. To reject the past as a given, and to relish the subtleties of present nuance, is the beginning of Decadence. The conflict underlying the contributions to this collection is that of society`s moral contempt vis-a-vis the focus on the fleeting present on part of the purportedly decadent artists; who in turn thought the truly decadent to be the stranglehold society maintained on individual interpretation and the interpretation of oneself.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Pressestimmen

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"The vigorous endurance of fin-de-siècle ideas is apparent in this welcome collection of fifteen essays. [.] This collection shows that Decadent studies are in no danger of decline." English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920

Deine Buchhandlung

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