The Dedalus Book of German Decadence
Author: Raymond Furness
Publisher: Hippocrene Books
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13:
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The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence
Author: Graham Anderson
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Published: 2024-05-20
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1912868709
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
The Dedalus Book of German Decadence
Author: Raymond Furness
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9781873982211
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Brockhaus encyclopedia of 1896 referred to the decadent literary movement as "a symptom of today's nervous, senile, fragmented society which is impervious to anything healthy and natural" -- and which is primarily French. But beneath the brash and pompous exterior of the German Empire, decadent literature thrived, fueled by the music of Wagner, the paradoxes of Nietzsche, and the writings of Thomas Mann, the movement's self-styled chronicler and analyst. This analogy collects works by Sacher-Masoch, Trakl, Leppin, Przybyszewski, Mann, and other, demonstrating that Berlin, Vienna and Prague served equally with Paris as hosts for this provocative European cultural movement.
The Dedalus Book of Roman Decadence
Author: Geoffrey Farrington
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume collects the poetry and prose that served as the model and inspiration for so much of fin-de-siecle English and French writing, providing a vivid picture of sexual excess and debauchery in a cruel and violent society which has never ceased to fascinate the library and scholarly imagination of succeeding generations. The editor, novelist Geoffrey Farrington, provides a general introduction to the literary and political milieux of imperial Rome, and introductory notes to works by such authors as Ovid, Tacitus, Suetonius, and Juvenal. "...concentrates on the outrageous behaviour of the ruling class of the Roman Empire, as described in passages selected from the prose, poetry and history of the period. Their murder plots, sexual deviances, orgies, cruelty and incessant intrigue put our politicians and their peccadillos on a play school level." Time Out
The Dedalus Book of Decadence (moral Ruins)
Author: Brian M. Stableford
Publisher: Hippocrene Books
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Encyclopedia of Fantasy
Author: John Clute
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1999-03-15
Total Pages: 1110
ISBN-13: 9780312198695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLike its companion volume, "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction", this massive reference of 4,000 entries covers all aspects of fantasy, from literature to art.
Simplicissimus
Author: Johann Grimmelshausen
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Published: 2010-11-14
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 1907650121
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMike Mitchell�s translation of Simplicissimus was shortlisted for the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize. �It is a violent and often all-too-realistic picaresque, set in war-torn Europe during the 17th-century Thirty Years War. Simplicissimus is the eternal innocent, the simple-minded survivor, and we follow him from a childhood in which he loses his parents to the casual atrocities of occupying troops, through his own soldiering adventures, and up to his final vocation as a hermit alone on an island. It is Rabelasian in some respects, but more down to earth and melancholy.” Phil Baker in The Sunday Times �It is the rarest kind of monument to life and literature, for it has survived almost three centuries and will survive many more. It is a story of the most basic kind of grandeur - gaudy, wild, raw, amusing, rollicking and ragged, boiling with life, on intimate terms with death and evil - but in the end, contrite and fully tired of a world wasting itself in blood, pillage and lust, but immortal in the miserable splendour of its sins.” Thomas Mann
The Dedalus Book of Decadence
Author: STABLEFORD Brian[Ed]
Publisher: Dedalus
Published: 2022-02-14
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781912868681
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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
Decadence
Author: Alex Murray
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-10-15
Total Pages: 728
ISBN-13: 1108658598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDecadence, that flowering of a mannered literary style in France during the Second Empire, and in the last two decades of the nineteenth century in Britain, holds an endless fascination. Yet the ambiguity of the term 'decadence' and the challenges of identifying its practitioners make grasping its contours difficult. From the obsession with classical cultures, to the responses to the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, this book offers one of the most comprehensive histories of literary Decadence. The essays here interrogate and expand the formal, geographical, and temporal frameworks for understanding Decadent literature, while offering a renewed focus on the role played by women writers. Featuring essays by leading scholars on sexuality, politics, science, translation, the New Woman, Russian and Spanish American Decadence, the influence of cinema on Decadence, and much more, it is essential reading for all those interested in the literature of the 1890s and Oscar Wilde.
Music and Decadence in European Modernism
Author: Stephen Downes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-06-03
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 0521767571
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDownes presents a detailed examination of the significance of decadence in Central and Eastern European modernist music.
