Decadence: An annotated anthology - Softcover

 
9780719075513: Decadence: An annotated anthology
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0719075513 ISBN 13: 9780719075513
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2012

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An annotated anthology of the ever-fascinating tradition of Decadence in 19th-century writing, including key manifestos, critical declarations, poems, stories, critical responses, parodies, and ancient Roman antecedents.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jane Desmarais is Lecturer in English and Art History at Goldsmiths, University of London. Chris Baldick is Professor of English at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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The tradition of Decadent writing in the 19th century remains a fascinating current in the evolution of modern literature. This new anthology brings together key texts from an international range of Decadent writings and writings about Decadence, many of them previously hard to find and some freshly translated from French, German, Italian, and – in a special section on ancient Roman antecedents – from Latin.

The selection of texts and extracts, more fully annotated than in other sources, includes key Decadent manifestoes and declarations of principle by Théophile Gautier, Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde; poems by Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Symons and many others; extracts from prose fictions by J.-K. Huysmans, Aubrey Beardsley and others; critical denunciations, with more discerning responses to the challenge of Decadence; parodies by Max Beerbohm among others of Decadent attitudes and styles; and significant extracts from relevant ancient Roman writings by Petronius and Juvenal.

The selection and explanatory notes combine to offer university students of literature and culture at all levels, along with teachers and lay enthusiasts, a rich resource for the understanding of Decadence as an elusive idea and as a literary tradition, in its complex evolution from the 1830s to the fin de siècle and beyond.

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The tradition of Decadent writing in the 19th century remains a fascinating current in the evolution of modern literature. This new anthology brings together key texts from an international range of Decadent writings and writings about Decadence, many of them previously hard to find and some freshly translated from French, German, Italian, and in a special section on ancient Roman antecedents from Latin.The selection of texts and extracts, more fully annotated than in other sources, includes key Decadent manifestoes and declarations of principle by Théophile Gautier, Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde; poems by Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Symons and many others; extracts from prose fictions by J.-K. Huysmans, Aubrey Beardsley and others; critical denunciations, with more discerning responses to the challenge of Decadence; parodies by Max Beerbohm among others of Decadent attitudes and styles; and significant extracts from relevant ancient Roman writings by Petronius and Juvenal.The selection and explanatory notes combine to offer university students of literature and culture at all levels, along with teachers and lay enthusiasts, a rich resource for the understanding of Decadence as an elusive idea and as a literary tradition, in its complex evolution from the 1830s to the fin de siècle and beyond.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0719075513
ISBN 13 
9780719075513
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
336
Herausgeber
Desmarais Jane
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