Perennial Decay: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadance

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 1998

Perennial Decay

On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadance

Edited by: Liz Constable , Dennis Denisoff and Matthew Potolsky

In the series New Cultural Studies

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812292480

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About this book

The contributors to Perennial Decay approach the question of decadence afresh, reevaluating the continuing importance of late nineteenth-century decadence for contemporary literary and cultural studies.

Author / Editor information

Liz Constable teaches French at the University of California, Davis. Dennis Denisoff teaches English at the University of Waterloo. Matthew Potolsky teaches literature at Harvard University.

Reviews

"This splendid collection of essays, with its lucid, witty, and masterful introduction by the editors, will transform our understanding of the decadent aesthetic, and demonstrate its relevance to a wide range of important literature and art in Europe, England, the United States, and Latin America in the past 150 years. It is required and rewarding reading."—Elaine Showalter, Princeton University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction Liz Constable, Matthew Potolsky and Dennis Denisoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Defining Decadence
Chapter 1. Interversions Barbara Spackman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Chapter 2. Unknowing Decadence Charles Bernheimer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
Chapter 3. Decadent Paradoxes Michael Riffaterre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Visualizing Decadence
Chapter 4. Posing a Threat Queensberry Wilde, and the Portrayal of Decadence Dennis Denisoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Chapter 5. Decadent Critique Constructing "History" in Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover David Wayne Thomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Chapter 6. Opera and the Discourse of Decadence From Wagner to AIDS Marc A. Weiner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Chapter 7. Spaces of the Demimonde/Subcultures of Decadence: 1890-I990 Emily Apter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
Identifications of Decadence and Decadent Identities
Chapter 8. "Comment Peut-on Être Homosexuel?" Multinational (In)Corporation and the Frenchness of Salomé Melanie C. Hawthorne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Chapter 9. The Politics of Posing Translating Decadence in Fin-de-Siecle Latin America Sylvia Molloy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Chapter 10. Improper Names Pseudonyms and Transvestites in Decadent Prose Leonard R. Koos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
Chapter 11. Imperial Dependency, Addiction, and the Decadent Body Hema Chari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Decadence, History, and the Politics of Language
Chapter 12. Pale Imitations Walter Pater's Decadent Historiography Matthew Potolsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Chapter 13. "Golden Mediocrity" Pater's Marcus Aurelius and the Making of Decadence Sharon Bassett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
Chapter 14. Fetishizing Writing The Politics of Fictional Form in the Work of Remy de Gourmont and Joséphin Péladan Jennifer Birkett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	268
Chapter 15. Ce ″Bazar Intellectual" Maurice Barrès, Decadent Masters, and Nationalist Pupils Liz Constable Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 328
Illustrations
- Other: 15 illus.
Keywords: Literature; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: March 17, 2015
ISBN: 9780812292480