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Perennial Decay : On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadance / Dennis Denisoff, Liz Constable, Matthew Potolsky.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: New Cultural StudiesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©1998Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) : 15 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812216783
  • 9780812292480
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809/.911 21
LOC classification:
  • PN56.D45 P47 1999
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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 destroying the high Priest of the Decadents." But reports of the death of decadence were greatly exaggerated, and today, more than one hundred years after the famous trial and at the beginning of a new millennium, the phenomenon of decadence continues to be a significant cultural force.Indeed, "decadence" in the nineteenth century, and in our own period, has been a concept whose analysis yields a broad set of associations. In Perennial Decay, Emily Apter, Charles Bernheimer, Sylvia Molloy, Michael Riffaterre, Barbara Spackman, Marc Weiner, and others extend the critical field of decadence beyond the traditional themes of morbidity, the cult of artificiality, exoticism, and sexual nonconformism. They approach the question of decadence afresh, reevaluating the continuing importance of late nineteenth-century decadence for contemporary literary and cultural studies.
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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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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 destroying the high Priest of the Decadents." But reports of the death of decadence were greatly exaggerated, and today, more than one hundred years after the famous trial and at the beginning of a new millennium, the phenomenon of decadence continues to be a significant cultural force.Indeed, "decadence" in the nineteenth century, and in our own period, has been a concept whose analysis yields a broad set of associations. In Perennial Decay, Emily Apter, Charles Bernheimer, Sylvia Molloy, Michael Riffaterre, Barbara Spackman, Marc Weiner, and others extend the critical field of decadence beyond the traditional themes of morbidity, the cult of artificiality, exoticism, and sexual nonconformism. They approach the question of decadence afresh, reevaluating the continuing importance of late nineteenth-century decadence for contemporary literary and cultural studies.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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