Casting fresh light on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British art, literature, ecological science and paganism, Decadent Ecology reveals the pervasive influence of decadence and paganism on modern understandings of nature and the enviro...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Apr-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487546083)
The fin de si cle not only designated the end of the Victorian epoch but also marked a significant turn towards modernism. Extraordinary Aesthetes critically examines literary and visual artists from England, Ireland, and Scotland wh...Lasīt vairāk
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 commu...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Dec-2021, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108845977)
Casting fresh light on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British art, literature, ecological science and paganism, Decadent Ecology reveals the pervasive influence of decadence and paganism on modern understandings of nature and the envir...Lasīt vairāk
Decadent Aesthetics and the Acrobat in the French Fin de sičcle explores the myth of the sad clown as an allegory for the unappreciated artist, examining the circus posters of Jules Chéret, Thomas Coutures Pierrot and Harlequin paintings, and Honoré...Lasīt vairāk
Decadent Aesthetics and the Acrobat in the French Fin de sičcle explores the myth of the sad clown as an allegory for the unappreciated artist, examining the circus posters of Jules Chéret, Thomas Coutures Pierrot and Harlequin paintings, and Honoré...Lasīt vairāk
In this collection of posthumously published essays, Bernheimer (literature, U. of Pennsylvania) critically examines the concept of decadence in the art, literature, philosophy, and culture of the late 19th century. Coverage includes Nietzsches phil...Lasīt vairāk
This work offers a unified field theory of Western culture, high and low, since the Egyptians invented beauty. From Emily Dickinson and Medusa to Madonna, it makes a persuasive case for all art as a pagan battleground between male and female, form an...Lasīt vairāk
One should either be a work of art, or wear one, proclaimed Oscar Wilde at the end of the nineteenth century; I am made of literature, I am nothing else, and cannot be anything else, Franz Kafka declared a decade later. Between these two claims l...Lasīt vairāk
A cultural history of 1890s explores the movements, debates, thoughts, and behavioral changes that influenced the development of Modernism, discussing the works of Wilde, Shaw, Yeats, Beardsley, Kipling, Webb, and others...Lasīt vairāk
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One should either be a work of art, or wear one, proclaimed Oscar Wilde at the end of the nineteenth century; I am made of literature, I am nothing else, and cannot be anything else, Franz Kafka proclaimed a brief decade later. Between these two...Lasīt vairāk
Offers a unified theory of Western culture, identifying major patterns that have endured over the centuries From ancient Egypt through the nineteenth century, Sexual Personae explores the provocative connections between art and pagan ritual;...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Apr-1985, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Ohio University Press, ISBN-13: 9780821407936)
In Decadent Style, John Reed defines decadent art broadly enough to encompass literature, music, and the visual arts and precisely enough to examine individual works in detail. Reed focuses on the essential characteristics of thi...Lasīt vairāk
