J. Hall,
A. Murray
Palgrave Macmillan UK
e druk, 2013
9781349467624
Decadent Poetics
Literature and Form at the British Fin de Siècle
Specificaties
Paperback, blz.
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Engels
Palgrave Macmillan UK |
e druk, 2013
ISBN13: 9781349467624
Rubricering
Onderdeel van serie
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Levertijd ongeveer 8 werkdagen
Samenvatting
Decadent Poetics explores the complex and vexed topic of decadent literature's formal characteristics and interrogates previously held assumptions around the nature of decadent form. Writers studied include Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire and Algernon Charles Swinburne, as well as A.E. Housman, Arthur Machen and Hubert Crackanthorpe.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781349467624
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK
Inhoudsopgave
Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Decadent Poetics; Alex Murray and Jason David Hall 1. How Decadent Poems Die; Joseph Bristow 2. Did a Decadent Metre Exist at the Fin de Siècle?; Meredith Martin 3. Decadent Forms: Parnassus in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction; Marion Thain 4. 'The Harem of Words': Attenuation and Excess in Decadent Poetry; Nick Freeman 5. In Praise of Decadence: The Epideictic Mode from Baudelaire to Wilde; Matthew Potolsky 6. Another Renaissance: The Decadent Poetic Drama of A. C. Swinburne and Michael Field; Ana Parejo Vadillo 7. Salome, Simile, Symboliste; Ellis Hanson 8. Naturalism and Decadence: The Case of Hubert Crackanthorpe; William Greenslade 9. 'A Disembodied Voice': The Posthuman Formlessness of Decadence; Dennis Denisoff 10. Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence; Catherine Maxwell Select Bibliography Index