The Dedalus Book of Decadence (moral Ruins)
Author | : Brian M. Stableford |
Publisher | : Hippocrene Books |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Brian M. Stableford |
Publisher | : Hippocrene Books |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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 | : Brian M. Stableford |
Publisher | : Hippocrene Books |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1992-08-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780781801096 |
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 | : Stephen Romer |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2013-05-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0191645818 |
'He had become the dandy of the unpredictable.' A quest for new sensations, and an avowed desire to shock possessed the Decadent writers of fin-de-siècle Paris. The years 1880-1900 saw an extraordinary, hothouse flowering of talent, that produced some of the most exotic, stylized, and cerebral literature in the French language. While 'Decadence' was a European movement, its epicentre was the French capital. On the eve of Freud's early discoveries, writers such as Gourmont, Lorrain, Maupassant, Mirbeau, Richepin, Schwob, and Villiers engaged in a species of wild analysis of their own, perfecting the art of short fiction as they did so. Death and Eros haunt these pages, and a polymorphous perversity by turns hilarious and horrifying. Their stories teem with addicts, maniacs, and murderers as they strive to outdo each other. This newly translated selection brings together the very best writing of the period, from lesser known figures as well as famous names. Provocative and unsettling, these extraordinary, corrosive little tales continue to cast a cold eye on the modern world. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author | : Richard Huijing |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
The Dedalus Book of Dutch Fantasy is the most ambitious and wide-ranging anthology of Dutch fiction ever to appear in English, and reads like the Who's Who of Dutch Literature, with stories by the undisputed contemporary masters such as Gerard Reve and Harry Mulisch, and classic authors such as Couperus, Van Schendel and Vestdijk, as well as many of the rising stars of the younger generation; Frans Kellendonk, A.F.TH. Van Der Heijden and P.F. Thomese. The stereotype of the Dutch that most immediately springs to mind is that of a clean, orderly, and down-to-earth people. Richard Huijing reveals the other side of this society; that of a dark netherworld of the macabre, the weird, the perverted, the violent and the fancifully impossible conjured up by a host of the finest writers in the Dutch language of the last hundred years.
Author | : Kostas Boyiopoulos |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2016-04-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317154118 |
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 diverse and creative reactions of Decadent authors to Romanticism between 1780 and 1914, while also remaining alert to the prescience of the Romantic imagination to envisage its own distorted, darker, perverted, other self. Creative pairings include William Blake and his Decadent critics, the recurring figure of the sphinx in the work of Thomas De Quincey and Decadent writers, and Percy Shelley with both Mathilde Blind and Swinburne. Not surprisingly, John Keats’s works are a particular focus, in essays that explore Keats’s literary and visual legacies and his resonance for writers who considered him an icon of art for art’s sake. Crucial to this critical reassessment are the shared obsessions of Romanticism and Decadence with subjectivity, isolation, addiction, fragmentation, representation, romance, and voyeurism, as well as a poetics of desire and anxieties over the purpose of aestheticism.
Author | : Brian M. Stableford |
Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0809519089 |
A study of the decadent literary movements in England and France, focusing upon such poets and authors as Baudelaire and Oscar Wilde.