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From:College Literature (Vol. 39, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines how Emile Zola's Nana anticipates and responds to emerging discourses on degeneration in late nineteenth-century Europe. Despite Max Nordau's denunciation of Zola as a degenerate artist, the novel...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Oscar Wilde wrote Salome, his vivid, ornate, claustrophobic one-act play, in French. This seemed appropriate to many, because his Salome was immediately seen as a continuation of the Decadent or Symbolist tradition...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 2. )In 1990 the Freudian anti-feminist Camille Paglia burst onto the cultural criticism scene with Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence From Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, a probing study of the nature of sexual tropes through...
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From:Commentary (Vol. 130, Issue 1)IN 1930, with the Great Depression in its early stages and British unemployment already around 15 percent, John Maynard Keynes wrote an essay about the economic glory to come. He wanted, he said, "to disembarrass myself...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)Thomas Mann's origins lie unmistakably in the fin de siècle period of neo-Romanticism and fascination with decadence. Dominating his early stories and the precocious masterpiece, Buddenbrooks, is the duality of Komik und...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 35, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedCreativity means sublimation of repressed desires and emotions, and this sublimation is best exemplified in 'The Literature of Decadence.' Decadent writings are characterized by hallucinations or uncanny perceptions...
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From:The Southern Review (Vol. 47, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn Mississippi it is always Wednesday afternoon. --WILL BARRETT, Walker Percy's The Last Gentleman It was a skimpy little novel that more or less backed into the limelight. Released in 1961 to scant notice and...
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From:Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 (Vol. 58, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis article argues that Sir Joshua Reynolds's martial portraiture from the closing year of the American War of Independence con stitutes not only a complex diagnostic of cultural humiliation and social decay, but also...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersThe short stories in By the North Gate (1963) began a writing career for Joyce Carol Oates so prolific that criticizing her for her abundant output of novels, essays, short stories, poems, and drama became fashionable,...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)It is often said that Evelyn Waugh's novels fall into two groups, those up to Put Out More Flags (1942), and those from Brideshead Revisited (1945) onwards. In this division, the early novels are classified as ``social...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Alfred, Lord Tennyson's fascination with the Arthurian cycle of Malory was life-long. The first draft of ``Morte d'Arthur[r],'' eventually published in 1842, dates from the end of 1833 when he heard the news of Arthur...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)The poetry of Yvor Winters falls into two phases, the imagist phase (1920-28), and the post-symbolist phase (1929-68). During the first period Winters was writing markedly cadenced, imagistic free verse under the...
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From: The New York Times Book ReviewCamille Paglia, who clearly believes that big books should start with a big bang, makes the following pronouncements on the first page of Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence From Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson: “Sexual...
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From: Literature/Film Quarterly[(essay date July 1973) In the following essay, Ross analyzes Fahrenheit 451 and The Bride Wore Black, and suggests why the critics and the public have not considered them to be among Truffaut's best work.] The three...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)John Webster's The White Devil is, with his The Duchess of Malfi, one of the half-dozen outstanding Jacobean revenge tragedies. The genre, initiated by Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy (c. 1589), is best known from...
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From:Gothic Studies (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis paper examines the role fungi play in Arthur Machen's Decadent classic The Hill of Dreams (1907), a supernatural novel written in the 1890s. Ostensibly an idiosyncratic topic, the novel's concern with these...
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From:Victorian Poetry (Vol. 52, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedLionel Johnson's "Dawn of Revolution" conjures a dream vision of the world in violent flux, where the end "that shall begin new earth" has already begun to arrive. Revolution becomes naturalized, taking the form of a...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)Isak Dinesen liked to disclaim the complex erudition of her tales and to speak of herself as a `story-teller', a Scheherazade, whose mission was simply to `entertain' people. Entertain them she did, with leisurely and...
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From:Criticism (Vol. 36, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedErnest Dowson's poetry has not been given the emphasis it deserves because critics have linked it to a decadent lifestyle. However, it actually explores the need to move beyond erotic or aesthetic pleasure and attempts...
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From:Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal (Vol. 12)Introduction Considering that the first half of the 20th century was marred by what retrospectively are considered to be the two most grotesque and destructive instances of war ever experienced, it comes as no surprise...