Michael St John

Romancing Decay

Ideas of Decadence in European Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of fifteen essays looks at the theme of decadence and its recurring manifestations in European literature and literary criticism from medieval times to the present day.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9781840146745
• ISBN-10: 1840146745
• Artikelnr.: 57052742

Autorenporträt

Michael St John

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction; Redeeming the decadent city: changing responses to the urban and wilderness environments in the lives of St Jerome
David Salter; Nature
Venus and Royal decadence: political theory and political practice in Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls
Michael StJohn; Reading symptoms of decadence in Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Carla Dente; 'Bawdy in thoughts
precise in words': decadence
divinity and dissent in the Restoration
Michael Davies; Dickensian decadents
Vincent Newey; Defining decadence in nineteenth-century French and British criticism
Julian North; Somewhere there's music: John Meade Falkner's The Lost Stradivarius
Nicholas Daly; 'Squalid arguments': decadence
reform and the Colonial vision in Kipling's The Five Nations
Andrew StJohn; The metamorphoses of a fairy-tale: Quillard
D'Annunzio and The Girl With Cut-Off Hands
Julie Dashwood; A passion for dismemberment: Gabriele d'Annunzio's portrayals of women
Susan Bassnett; The escape from decadence: British travel literature on the Balkans 1900-45
Andrew Hammond; Books and ruins: abject decadence in Gide and Mann
Martin Halliwell; Resisting decadence: literary criticism as a corrective to low culture and high science in the world of I. A. Richards
Daniel Cordle; Blow it up and start all over again: Second World War apocalypse fiction and the decadence of modernity
Tristram Hooley; Decadence and transition in the fiction of Antonio Tabucchi: a reading of Il filo dell'orizzonte
Marina Spunta; Beyond decadence: Huysmans
Wilde
Baudrillard and Postmodern culture
Nicholas Zurbrugg; Translation: decadence or survival of the original?
Amir Ali Nojoumian; The decadent university: narratives of decay and the future of higher education
Mark Rawlinson; The lateness of the world
or how to leave the twentieth century
Martin L. Davies; Bibliography; Index.

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Contents: Introduction; Redeeming the decadent city: changing responses to the urban and wilderness environments in the lives of St Jerome, David Salter; Nature, Venus and Royal decadence: political theory and political practice in Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls, Michael StJohn; Reading symptoms of decadence in Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Carla Dente; 'Bawdy in thoughts, precise in words': decadence, divinity and dissent in the Restoration, Michael Davies; Dickensian decadents, Vincent Newey; Defining decadence in nineteenth-century French and British criticism, Julian North; Somewhere there's music: John Meade Falkner's The Lost Stradivarius, Nicholas Daly; 'Squalid arguments': decadence, reform and the Colonial vision in Kipling's The Five Nations, Andrew StJohn; The metamorphoses of a fairy-tale: Quillard, D'Annunzio and The Girl With Cut-Off Hands, Julie Dashwood; A passion for dismemberment: Gabriele d'Annunzio's portrayals of women, Susan Bassnett; The escape from decadence: British travel literature on the Balkans 1900-45, Andrew Hammond; Books and ruins: abject decadence in Gide and Mann, Martin Halliwell; Resisting decadence: literary criticism as a corrective to low culture and high science in the world of I. A. Richards, Daniel Cordle; Blow it up and start all over again: Second World War apocalypse fiction and the decadence of modernity, Tristram Hooley; Decadence and transition in the fiction of Antonio Tabucchi: a reading of Il filo dell'orizzonte, Marina Spunta; Beyond decadence: Huysmans, Wilde, Baudrillard and Postmodern culture, Nicholas Zurbrugg; Translation: decadence or survival of the original?, Amir Ali Nojoumian; The decadent university: narratives of decay and the future of higher education, Mark Rawlinson; The lateness of the world, or how to leave the twentieth century, Martin L. Davies; Bibliography; Index.