Perennial Decay

On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadance

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ID19946614
EditorsLiz Constable, Dennis Denisoff (0000-0002-9258-4028), Matthew Potolsky
Year1998
Pages328
Publication date1998-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenuePerennial Decay (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Pennsylvania Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.9783/9780812292480
OpenAlexW657310543
Open LibraryOL33519340M
ISBN9780812292480
LanguageEN
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When Oscar Wilde was convicted of gross indecency in 1895, a reporter for the National Observer wrote that there was not a man or a woman in the English-speaking world possessed of the treasure of a wholesome mind who is not under a deep debt of gratitude to the marquis of Queensberry for destroying the high Priest of the Decadents. But reports of the death of decadence were greatly exaggerated, and today, one hundred years after the famous trial and at the end of another century, the phenomenon of decadence continues to be a significant cultural force.Indeed, decadence in the nineteenth century, and in our own period, has been a concept whose analysis yields a broad set of associations. In Perennial Decay, Emily Apter, Charles Bernheimer, Sylvia Molloy, Michael Riffaterre, Barbara Spackman, Marc Weiner, and others extend the critical field of decadence beyond the traditional themes of morbidity, the cult of artificiality, exoticism, and sexual nonconformism. They approach the question of decadence afresh, reevaluating the continuing importance of late nineteenth-century decadence for contemporary literary and cultural studies

Agronomy · Biology · Geography · Perennial plant · Physics · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies · Environmental Science · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · 19th century · 20th century · Aesthetics, Modern · Arts, Modern · Decadence (Literary movement) · Decadence in art · Modern Aesthetics · Modern Arts

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