Decadent Subjects by Charles Bernheimer
Through careful analysis of the literature, art, and music of the fin de siecle including a riveting discussion of the many faces of Salome, Bernheimer leaves us with a fascinating and multidimensional look at decadence, all the more important as we emerge from our own fin de siecle.-
Writing History, Writing Trauma
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Hypertext 2.0
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Subversive Pleasures
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Death and Representation
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Food for Thought
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France and the Holy Land
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Hypertext 3.0
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Interrupted Dialectic
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The Audience
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Suburban Ambush
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The Aesthetics of Murder
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On the Edge of the Cliff
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The Well-Tempered Self
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Heterocosmica
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The Past as Text
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Grotesque Figures
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Passions of the Sign
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Color of Melancholy
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Gilles Deleuze
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Styles of Enlightenment
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Revolutionary Acts
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The Fate of Carmen
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Fictional Truth
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Torrid Zones
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Fortune's Faces
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The Cryptographic Imagination
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Cultural Imperialism
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The Office of the Scarlet Letter
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The Frame of Art
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Rules for the Endgame
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National Culture and the New Global System
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Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism
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The Translator's Turn
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The Transparent Society
Effortlessly integrating his amazing archival research, Bernheimer gives readers the sense of being in a collegial seminar with himChoice 2003 An excellent book by a well-known authority in the areas of European literature, culture, and psychoanalysis. -- Christopher S. Nassaar Pre-Raphaelite Studies 2005
Charles Bernheimer was a prominent scholar in the areas of European literature, culture, and psychoanalysis. He taught Romance languages and comparative literature at the University of Pennsylvania and authored and edited several books, including Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism, part of Johns Hopkins' Parallax series.Naomi Schor is the Benjamin F. Barge Professor of French in the Department of French at Yale University.T. Jefferson Kline is a professor of French at Boston University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780801867408 |
| ISBN 10 | 0801867401 |
| Title | Decadent Subjects |
| Author | Charles Bernheimer |
| Series | Parallax: Re-Visions Of Culture And Society |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Year published | 2002-08-26 |
| Number of pages | 248 |
| Prizes | Commended for Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies 2004 (United States) |
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