Decadence in Literature and Intellectual Debate since 1945

Preface; Diemo Landgraf PART I: HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES 1. On the Notion of Decadence in the FRG and France after 1945 - with Examples by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Botho Strauß, and Richard Millet; Diemo Landgraf 2. 'In the very quick of the nightmare': Decadence and Mystics of Wilderness in Henry Miller's Cultural Criticism of Modernity; Mario Bosincu 3. The Function of Decadence and Ascendance in Analytic Philosophy; Jens Lemanski and Konstantin Alogas 4. Progress and Decadence - Poststructuralism as Progressivism; Gerald Hoffleit PART II: DECADENCE AND THE POLITICS OF CULTURE AND LANGUAGE 5. The Concept of Decadence as Ideological and Law Enforcement Category in the GDR; Torben Ibs 6. 'Joual en stock' - The Controversial Issue of Language Quality and Autochthonous Standardization in Quebec; Claus D. Pusch PART III: LITERARY AND FILM STUDIES 7. Michelangelo Antonioni's Early 'Trilogy of Decadence': L'avventura (1960), La notte (1961), L'eclisse (1962); Jakob Willis 8. Houellebecq's Fin-de-Siècle : Crisis of Society, Crisis of the Novel - Thematic and Poetological Intertextuality between Michel Houellebecq and Joris-Karl Huysmans; Betül Dilmac 9. The Shadow of Decadence: The Latin American Boom and the Taboo of the Spanish Novel of the Democratic Period; Pablo Sánchez 10. Exile and Writing: Alfredo Bryce Echenique and the Decadence of the Myth of Paris; Blanca Navarro Pardiñas 11. Tradition, (post) modernity, and decadence in Vargas Llosa's Lituma en los Andes and Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto ; Diemo Landgraf