Romancing Decay by Michael St John
This collection of fifteen essays looks at the theme of decadence and its recurring manifestations in European literature and literary criticism from medieval times to the present day. Various definitions of the term are explored, including the notion of decadence as physical decay. Some of the essays draw parallels between modernist and postmodernist notions of decadence. Similarities are detected between fin de siecle decadence at the end of the nineteenth century (which reaches its apotheosis in the character of Eugene Wrayburn in Our Mutual Friend) and depictions of decadence in our own age as we enter the new millennium.-
The Thriller and Northern Ireland since 1969
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Proust's Cup of Tea
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Displaced Persons: Conditions of Exile in European Culture
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Translating Travel
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The Poetics of Transubstantiation
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Writing Russia in the Age of Shakespeare
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Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Translation in Early Modern England
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Fecal Matters in Early Modern Literature and Art
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The Name and Nature of Tragicomedy
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Imperiled Heritage: Tradition, History and Utopia in Early Modern German Literature
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Chaucer's Dream Visions
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We Europeans?
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Tourism and Identity in Scotland, 1770-1914
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Surrealism, Politics and Culture
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Perspectives on Travel Writing
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Literary Sociability and Literary Property in France, 1775-1793
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Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
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Travels and Translations in the Sixteenth Century
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Theater and Nation in Eighteenth-Century Germany
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Baroque Self-Invention and Historical Truth
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Authority, State and National Character
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The Romanticism of Contemporary Theory
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| ISBN 13 | 9781138268845 |
| ISBN 10 | 1138268844 |
| Title | Romancing Decay |
| Author | Michael St John |
| Series | Studies In European Cultural Transition |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 2016-11-17 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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