James Diedrick
Biographic Data
| ID | 6625055 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Diedrick |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Diedrick |
| SIGNATURE | DIEDRICK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Agnes Scott College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Secularism and its Discontents
The poet and woman of letters Mathilde Blind (1841–1896) achieved her early fame — and notoriety — as a radical freethinker, especially as a translator and champion of David Friedrich Strauss's The Old Faith and the New: A Confession (1873), which articulates an antitheist form of historical and scientific materialism. Her subsequent prose works — essays, reviews, and translations — confirm this reputation. But her verse, which makes use of what …
The Hectic Beauty of Decay”
Wan mists enwrap the still-born day; The harebell withers on the heath, And all the moorland seems to breathe The hectic beauty of decay. —Mathilde Blind, “The Evening of the Year,” Songs and Sonnets To again invoke the organic metaphor at the root of decadence, what is crucial about the notion of decay is not so much the change from a greater to a lesser state, but the changing itself. —David Weir, Decadence and the Making of Modernism [T]he aim…
The Hectic Beauty of Decay”
Wan mists enwrap the still-born day; The harebell withers on the heath, And all the moorland seems to breathe The hectic beauty of decay. —Mathilde Blind, “The Evening of the Year,” Songs and Sonnets To again invoke the organic metaphor at the root of decadence, what is crucial about the notion of decay is not so much the change from a greater to a lesser state, but the changing itself. —David Weir, Decadence and the Making of Modernism [T]he aim…
The Hectic Beauty of Decay”
Wan mists enwrap the still-born day; The harebell withers on the heath, And all the moorland seems to breathe The hectic beauty of decay. —Mathilde Blind, “The Evening of the Year,” Songs and Sonnets To again invoke the organic metaphor at the root of decadence, what is crucial about the notion of decay is not so much the change from a greater to a lesser state, but the changing itself. —David Weir, Decadence and the Making of Modernism [T]he aim…
Secularism and its Discontents
The poet and woman of letters Mathilde Blind (1841–1896) achieved her early fame — and notoriety — as a radical freethinker, especially as a translator and champion of David Friedrich Strauss's The Old Faith and the New: A Confession (1873), which articulates an antitheist form of historical and scientific materialism. Her subsequent prose works — essays, reviews, and translations — confirm this reputation. But her verse, which makes use of what …
Art (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Poetry (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Beauty (1 work) · Decadence (1 work) · Decadence, Literature, and Society (1 work) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (1 work) · Islam (1 work) · Literature: history, themes, analysis (1 work)