Liz constable (34 Ergebnisse)

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Soft cover. Zustand: As New. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.75", is like new. xliii/212 pages. "When the rich and well-connected Raoule de Venerande becomes enamored of Jacques Silvert, a poor young man who makes artificial flowers for a living, she turns him into her mistress and eventually into her wife. Raoule's suitor, a cigar-smoking former hussar officer, becomes an accomplice in the complications that ensue. A writer and cultural arbiter of a salon in France from the early 1880s until 1930, Rachilde (Marguerite Eymery) won celebrity with this scandalously decadent novel. An inversion of the Pygmalion story, the book was judged to be pornographic, and a Belgian court sentenced its author (in absentia) to two years in prison. Verlaine congratulated Rachilde on the invention of a new vice.".…

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 211 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. . 2004. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Zustand: very good. From the Library of John Russell Taylor.

Zustand: New. pp. xliii + 212.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. pp. 328 15 Illus.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 212 pages. French language. 8.50x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 320. . 2004. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. Editor(s): Constable, Liz; Denisoff, Dennis; Potolsky, Matthew. Series: New Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 328 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; HPN; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522. . 1998. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Paperback. Zustand: Gut. 318 p.: Ill. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - berieben, Bleistiftanmerkungen auf Schmutztitel, sonst guter Zustand / rubbed, pencil annotations on half title, otherwise good condition. - When Oscar Wilde was convicted of gross indecency in 1895, a reporter for the National Observer wrote that there was not a man or 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, one hundred years after the famous trial and at the end of another century, 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 Biffaterre, 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. / Contents Introduction Liz Constable, Matthew Potolsky, and Dennis Denisoff Defining Decadence 1. Interversions Barbara Spackman 2. Unknowing Decadence Charles Bernheimer 3. Decadent Paradoxes Michael Riffaterre Translated by Liz Constable and Matthew Potolsky Visualizing Decadence 4. Posing a Threat: Queensberry, Wilde, and the Portrayal of Decadence Dennis Denisoff 5. Decadent Critique: Constructing History in Peter Greenaways The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover David Wayne Thomas 6. Opera and the Discourse of Decadence: From Wagner to AIDS Marc A. Weiner 7. Spaces of the Demimonde / Subcultures of Decadence: 1890-1990 Emily Apter Identifications of Decadence and Decadent Identities 8. Comment Peut-on Être Homosexuel?: Multinational (In) Corporation and the Frenchness of Salomé Melanie C. Hawthorne 9. The Politics of Posing: Translating Decadence in Fin-de-Siècle Latin America Sylvia Molloy 10. Improper Names: Pseudonyms and Transvestites in Decadent Prose Leonard R. Koos 11. Imperial Dependency, Addiction, and the Decadent Body Hema Chari Decadence, History, and the Politics of Language 12. Pale Imitations: Walter Paters Decadent Historiography Matthew Potolsky 13. Golden Mediocrity: Paters Marcus Aurelius and the Making of Decadence Sharon Bassett 14. Fetishizing Writing: The Politics of Fictional Form in the Work of Remy de Gourmont and Joséphin Péladan Jennifer Birkett 15. Ce Bazar Intellectuel: Maurice Barrés, Decadent Masters, and Nationalist Pupils Liz Constable List of Contributors Index. ISBN 9780812216783 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 504.…

Zustand: New. In French.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 320 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 320 pages. 9.75x7.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. In this key text from the French decadent movement, an aristocratic young woman becomes enamoured of a young man who makes artificial flowers for a living.&Uumlber den AutorMelanie Hawthorne is Professor of French at Texas A&M Unive.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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.…

Zustand: New. The contributors to Perennial Decay approach the question of decadence afresh, reevaluating the continuing importance of late nineteenth-century decadence for contemporary literary and cultural studies.&Uumlber den AutorLiz Constabl.