The Oxford handbook of decadence / edited by Jane Desmarais and David Weir.
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Desmarais, Jane (redaktör/utgivare)
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Weir, David, 1947 April 20- (redaktör/utgivare)
- ISBN 9780190066956
- Publicerad: New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
- Engelska xviii, 723 pages
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Sammanfattning
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Stäng
- Periods -- Places -- Genres -- Materialities -- Senses -- Theories.
- "The meaning of decadence varies with context, depending on what (or who) is understood to have declined, decayed, or degenerated. These negative meanings are familiar from history (the decline and fall of Rome), sociology (the decay of communities), morality (the degeneration of values), and more, including such popular conceptions of decadence as excess and corruption. At the same time, all of this negative decadence has found positive cultural expression, principally in literature, through the work of such celebrated nineteenth-century decadents as Charles Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde, and many others. This volume explores the kind of literary expression Baudelaire gave to decadence in the mid-nineteenth century and Wilde at the fin de siècle by focusing on additional critical periods, such as classical antiquity, various ages of empire, the interwar era in the twentieth century, and contemporary times, as well as by examining key places-France, Belgium, Britain, Italy, Germany, the Nordic nations, Russia and Ukraine, the Ottoman Empire, and Japan-and such genres as the novel, the short story, drama, the essay, prose poetry, and film. The volume also considers decadence more broadly as a culture not limited to literature by considering its manifestations in such material forms as book design, fashion, interior decoration, and architecture, as well as through the experiential register of the senses: decadent vision, sound, smell, taste, and touch are all reflected, respectively, in painting, music, perfume, cuisine, and feeling. Finally, the volume explores the theoretical resonance of decadence in such fields as theology, science, ecology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and politics"--
Ämnesord
- Konst och samhälle (sao)
- Dekadens i konsten (sao)
- Dekadens i litteraturen (sao)
- Dekadens (litterär riktning) (sao)
- Estetik (sao)
- Dekadens -- sociala aspekter (sao)
- Arts and society. (LCSH)
- Decadence in art. (LCSH)
- Decadence in literature. (LCSH)
- Decadence (Literary movement) (LCSH)
- Aesthetics. (LCSH)
- Degeneration -- Social aspects. (LCSH)
- Art and society (LCSH)
- Decadence (Literary movement) (LCSH)
- Decadence in literature (LCSH)
- Aesthetics (LCSH)
- Decadence in art (LCSH)
Klassifikation
- NX180.S6 (LCC)
- 809.91 (DDC)
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