Kostas Boyiopoulos
Biographic Data
| ID | 5960044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kostas Boyiopoulos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kostas |
| FAMILY NAME | Boyiopoulos |
| SIGNATURE | BOYIOPOULOS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8241-6373 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Decadent Short Story
The short story form and decadence are not only coterminous in 1890s Britain, but they also share common roots, as both hark back to Edgar Allan Poe. Even though the decadent short story eludes definition, it emphasizes style and rarefied subjectivity against the conventional Victorian novel’s emphasis on plot-driven narratives built around traditional moral values and social concerns. It is a self-conscious cross-genre that explores multifarious…
Oscar Wilde and the Confidence Trick
Critics have long highlighted the centrality of forgery in Oscar Wilde. This essay focuses instead on the idea of the confidence trick in Wilde’s life and work, with a special focus on ‘The Portrait of Mr. W. H.’. The capstone of the confidence trick is the so-called long con, a type of elaborate deception that resembles an extended theatrical performance. With its properties of narrativity and plot-making, the long con subsumes forgery. Its use …
Decadent Romanticism
For Decadent authors, Romanticism was a source of powerful imaginative revisionism, perversion, transition, and partial negation. But for all these strong Decadent reactions against the period, the cultural phenomenon of Decadence shared with Romanticism a mutual distrust of the philosophy of utilitarianism and the aesthetics of neo-Classicism. Reflecting on the interstices between Romantic and Decadent literature, Decadent Romanticism reassesses…
The Decadent Short Story
The first anthology of Decadent short stories reflecting a variety of fin de siècle themes GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748692149','ISBN:9780748692132','ISBN:9780748692156','ISBN:9780748692163']); This wide-ranging anthology showcases for the first time the short story as the most attractive genre for British writers who experimented with Decadent themes and styles. From familiar writers such as Ernest Dowson, Arthur Symons and Oscar W…
Decadent Short Story
Simulation in The Picture of Dorian Gray
As we peer into the theoreticalfield of comparative studies, wenotice that comparison can be analysed as an intricate web of uses and meanings. In a recent number of this journal, in ‘What is Comparative Literature?’, Catherine Brown drew our attention to the slippery ambiguities of the term. Brown quantifies and relativizes the notions of ‘similar’ and ‘different’, illuminating us not only on how texts gravitate toward or orbit one another, but …
The Serried Maze’
This essay looks at Arthur Machen's underexplored experimental masterpiece The Hill of Dreams (1897/1907), his personal novel rooted in the Decadent nineties. Its daringness does not just lie in the subject matter but also in the manner its stylistic techniques evoke. The present investigation is interested in Machen's multifarious use of the image of the maze/labyrinth – or Welsh caerdroia – an apt symbol for the presentation of London. Machen's…
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The Serried Maze’
This essay looks at Arthur Machen's underexplored experimental masterpiece The Hill of Dreams (1897/1907), his personal novel rooted in the Decadent nineties. Its daringness does not just lie in the subject matter but also in the manner its stylistic techniques evoke. The present investigation is interested in Machen's multifarious use of the image of the maze/labyrinth – or Welsh caerdroia – an apt symbol for the presentation of London. Machen's…
The Decadent Short Story
The first anthology of Decadent short stories reflecting a variety of fin de siècle themes GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748692149','ISBN:9780748692132','ISBN:9780748692156','ISBN:9780748692163']); This wide-ranging anthology showcases for the first time the short story as the most attractive genre for British writers who experimented with Decadent themes and styles. From familiar writers such as Ernest Dowson, Arthur Symons and Oscar W…
Decadent Short Story
Simulation in The Picture of Dorian Gray
As we peer into the theoreticalfield of comparative studies, wenotice that comparison can be analysed as an intricate web of uses and meanings. In a recent number of this journal, in ‘What is Comparative Literature?’, Catherine Brown drew our attention to the slippery ambiguities of the term. Brown quantifies and relativizes the notions of ‘similar’ and ‘different’, illuminating us not only on how texts gravitate toward or orbit one another, but …
Decadent Romanticism
For Decadent authors, Romanticism was a source of powerful imaginative revisionism, perversion, transition, and partial negation. But for all these strong Decadent reactions against the period, the cultural phenomenon of Decadence shared with Romanticism a mutual distrust of the philosophy of utilitarianism and the aesthetics of neo-Classicism. Reflecting on the interstices between Romantic and Decadent literature, Decadent Romanticism reassesses…
The Decadent Short Story
The short story form and decadence are not only coterminous in 1890s Britain, but they also share common roots, as both hark back to Edgar Allan Poe. Even though the decadent short story eludes definition, it emphasizes style and rarefied subjectivity against the conventional Victorian novel’s emphasis on plot-driven narratives built around traditional moral values and social concerns. It is a self-conscious cross-genre that explores multifarious…
Oscar Wilde and the Confidence Trick
Critics have long highlighted the centrality of forgery in Oscar Wilde. This essay focuses instead on the idea of the confidence trick in Wilde’s life and work, with a special focus on ‘The Portrait of Mr. W. H.’. The capstone of the confidence trick is the so-called long con, a type of elaborate deception that resembles an extended theatrical performance. With its properties of narrativity and plot-making, the long con subsumes forgery. Its use …
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