Dedalus Book of Russian Decadence
Author | : Natalia Rubenstein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780946626168 |
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Author | : Natalia Rubenstein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780946626168 |
Author | : Natalia Rubenstein |
Publisher | : Hippocrene Books |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1992-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780781801072 |
Author | : Kirsten Lodge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Including writings by the well-known authors Valery Briusov, Leonid Andreyev, Fedor Sologub and Zinaida Gippius, this collection explores the darkest depths of the unconscious, which lead their characters to sadism, masochism, rape, murder and suicide.
Author | : STABLEFORD Brian[Ed] |
Publisher | : Dedalus |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2022-02-14 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781912868681 |
The Decadence Movement which flourished in the 1890s produced some of Europe's most striking and exotic works of literature The Decadents, convinced that civilization was in a state of terminal decline, refused to rebel as the Romantics had, but set forth instead to cultivate the pleasures of calculated perversity and to seek the artificial paradise of drug-induced hallucination. The Dedalus Book of Decadence looks south to sample the essence of fine French decadent writing. It succeeds in delivering a range of writers either searching vigorously for the thrill of a healthy crime or lamenting their impuissance from a sickly stupor. --Andrew St George in The Independent
Author | : Graham Anderson |
Publisher | : SCB Distributors |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2024-05-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1912868709 |
The Decadent Movement which flourished in the 1890s produced some of Europe’s most striking and exotic works of literature. The Decadents, convinced that civilisation was in a state of terminal decline, refused to rebel as the Romantics had, but set forth instead to cultivate the pleasures of calculated perversity and to seek the artificial paradise of drug-induced hallucination. J.-K. Huysmans described Decadence as a ‘black feast’ and The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence offers a veritable banquet, with offerings from the major practitioners in France and England. It completes Brian Stableford seminal two-volume study of the decadent movement.
Author | : STABLEFORD Brian[Ed] |
Publisher | : Dedalus |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2022-02-14 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781912868698 |
The Decadence Movement which flourished in the 1890s produced some of Europe's most striking and exotic works of literature The Decadents, convinced that civilization was in a state of terminal decline, refused to rebel as the Romantics had, but set forth instead to cultivate the pleasures of calculated perversity and to seek the artificial paradise of drug-induced hallucination. J.-K. Huysmans described Decadence as a 'black feast' and The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence offers a veritable banquet, with offerings from the major practitioners in France and England. It completes Brian Stableford seminal two-volume study of the decadent movement.
Author | : Brian M. Stableford |
Publisher | : Hippocrene Books |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
A black feast with offerings from the major practitioners and their precursors in France and England.
Author | : Jonathan Stone |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2019-12-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3030344525 |
Decadence and Modernism in European and Russian Literature and Culture: Aesthetics and Anxiety in the 1890s rewrites the story of early modernist literature and culture by drawing out the tensions underlying its simultaneous engagement with Decadence and Symbolism, the unsustainable combination of this world and the other. With a broadly framed literary and cultural approach, Jonathan Stone examines a shift in perspective that explodes the notion of reality and showcases the uneasy relationship between the tangible and intangible aspects of the surrounding world. Modernism quenches a growing fascination with the ephemeral and that which cannot be seen while also doubling down on the significance of the material world and finding profound meaning in the physical and the corporeal. Decadence and Symbolism complement the broader historical trajectory of the fin de siècle by affirming the novelty of a modernist mindset and offering an alternative to the empirical and positivistic atmosphere of the nineteenth century. Stone seeks to recreate a significant historical and cultural moment in the development of modernity, a moment that embraces the concept of Decadence while repurposing its aesthetic and social import to help navigate the fundamental changes that accompanied the dawn of the twentieth century.
Author | : Frederick White |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2015-11-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1526102129 |
Early in the twentieth century, Russia was experiencing a decadent period of cultural degeneration just as science was developing ways to identify medical conditions which supposedly reflected the health of the entire nation. Leonid Andreev, the leading literary figure of his time, stepped into the breach of this scientific discourse with literary works about degenerates. The spirited social debates on mental illness, morality and sexual deviance which resulted from these works became part of the ongoing battle over the definition and depiction of the irrational, complicated by Andreev’s own publicised bouts with neurasthenia. This book examines the concept of pathology in Russia, the influence of European medical discourse, the development of Russian psychiatry, and the role that it had in popular culture, by investigating the life and works of Andreev. It engages the emergence of psychiatry and the role that art played in the development of this objective science.
Author | : James Willsher |
Publisher | : Decadence from Dedalus S |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
The 1890s English Decadence was no mere polite response to French invention, but the hothouse blossoming of long indigenous researches into the perverse. Like Imperial Rome, England could hardly subdue and rule the globe without becoming corrupt. The Romantics tried rebellion, but amidst Victorian industry, terminally fatigued Decadents concerned themselves with cultivating their addiction to luxury and sensation. In The Dedalus Book of English Decadence: Vile Emperors and Elegant Degenerates, avatars and acolytes such as Beckford, Byron, De Quincey, Dowson, Bosie and Wilde are all to be found at their unwholesome best.