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Volpicelli, Robert. "Countee Cullen's Harlem Decadence." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 138, no. 5 (2023): 1078–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/s0030812923000974.

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AbstractThis essay responds to Countee Cullen's reputation within Harlem Renaissance studies as an out-of-date poet who had little concern for the “new” by reassessing his career under the sign of an older, nineteenth-century decadence. In so doing, it stages a larger exploration of the intersection between decadence and the Harlem Renaissance. I begin by sketching a genealogy of African American decadence that extends from W. E. B. Du Bois to second-generation Harlem writers like Richard Bruce Nugent and Wallace Thurman. I highlight Cullen's place within this lineage by examining the poetry f

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Lyytikäinen, Pirjo. "Decadence in the Wilderness. Will to Transgression or the Strange Bird of Finnish Decadence." Nordlit 15, no. 2 (2012): 245. http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.2062.

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The decadence that the Decadents identified in their own civilization was recognized through the model of Roman Empire, although they thought that the Romans were, even in their decadence, much more vigorous than the modern "cerebral" decadents. The figures of the late Empire, which fused the over-ripeness of culture with barbarism, were great even in their decline; the ancient uninhibited transgressions and vices fascinated the decadents although even the imagined debaucheries exhausted the modern decadents. Des Esseintes is, of course, a paradigmatic figure, connecting extreme weakness and f

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Kwok, Cherrie. "Decadence Today: Volutes, Unfurling Flowers, and Decolonial Excesses in Shola von Reinhold’s LOTE and Thuy On’s Decadence." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 73, no. 1 (2025): 91–105. https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2025-2009.

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Abstract This essay examines contemporary depictions of decadent aesthetic excess in Shola von Reinhold’s LOTE (2020) and Thuy On’s Decadence (2021). It posits decolonial motifs of excess as a response to male fin de siècle decadence, motifs which also serve as a new departure for contemporary decadent studies. Shola von Reinhold’s novel undermines both fin de siècle male models of decadence and contemporary forms of white, heteronormative forms of oppression by reclaiming adornment and beauty from a perspective that engages with Blackness, queerness, and transness, embodied particularly in th

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Hurrell, David. "Herbert Spencer: A Case History of Nietzsche’s Conception of Decadence." Nietzsche-Studien 49, no. 1 (2020): 171–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/nietzstu-2020-0008.

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AbstractNietzsche characterises some influential individuals – such as Socrates and Wagner – as “decadents” because they promote life-inhibiting values that potentially undermine the flourishing of humanity. A clearly stated but less prominent example of such a decadent is Herbert Spencer. While Nietzsche’s observations concerning Spencer are far fewer than those on Socrates and Wagner, they still have considerably significance for understanding Nietzsche’s philosophy – particularly his views on morality and science – and consequently their role in his conception of decadence. This article arg

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Hext, Kate. "Ben Hecht's Hard-Boiled Decadence: The Flaneur as Reporter." Modernist Cultures 13, no. 2 (2018): 235–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/mod.2018.0207.

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This essay illustrates how Ben Hecht's short stories in The Little Review and the Chicago Daily News crucially expand the scope of burgeoning research into post-Wildean, American Decadence. These works (written between 1915 and 1921) have been over-shadowed by Hecht's later Hollywood career to the point where they have all-but eluded scholarly commentary. However, attention to these vignettes of sensual experience in downtown Chicago reveals that they develop Decadence in a unique direction, which fuses the backstreet Decadence of Arthur Machen and Arthur Symons with the pulp fiction published

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Creasy, Kaitlyn. "Nietzschean Decadence as Psychic Disunity." Journal of Nietzsche Studies 55, no. 2 (2024): 127–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/jnietstud.55.2.0127.

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Abstract This article offers an account of Nietzschean decadence as a psycho-physiological condition characterized by a failure of psychic integration—a failure Nietzsche thinks precludes genuine agency, since the psychic integration the decadent fails to achieve is necessary for agency. As part of this account, this article develops an interpretation of an underexplored but crucial form of decadence: repressed decadence. Exploring this variety of Nietzschean decadence both enables us to make sense of the case of Wagner’s alleged decadence and adds nuance to predominance models of Nietzschean

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MacLeod, Kirsten. "“Art for America's Sake”: Decadence and the Making of American Literary Culture in the Little Magazines of the 1890s." Prospects 30 (October 2005): 309–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300002064.

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Decadence — the literary and artistic movement that insisted on the autonomy of art, reveled in the bizarre, artificial, perverse, and arcane, and pitted the artist against bourgeois society — is most strongly associated with fin de siècle British and French culture. Rarely is it associated with America. And yet, its popularity in America may well have surpassed its popularity in either Britain or France. That decadence was among Europe's most successful cultural exports to America in the 1890s is indicated by the rash of decadent Anglophile and Francophile little magazines that emerged in Ame

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Clarke, Tim. "The Consolations of Decadence in John Fante's Ask the Dust." Journal of Modern Literature 47, no. 4 (2024): 126–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/jml.00048.

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Abstract: Though fin de siècle decadence has seldom been recognized as a formative influence on John Fante's writing, the attitude toward modernity that Fante expresses in Ask the Dust is illegible without recourse to the decadent tradition. Tracing the novel's ideas about ethnicity, religion, and sexuality back to the fin de siècle , and reading Joris-Karl Huysmans's 1891 decadent novel Là-bas as its key intertext, we can see that Ask the Dust refashions decadence into an ambivalent survival strategy for transmuting alienation and suffering into a sense of personal consolation or power. Artur

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Price, Matthew Burroughs. "A Genealogy of Queer Detachment." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 130, no. 3 (2015): 648–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2015.130.3.648.

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Despite their widespread attention to the conluence of queer sexualities and “decadence” in in- de- siècle writing, queer theorists have yet to overcome the two concepts' persistently destructive conlation. his essay explores the latent positive ainities of queerness and decadence in Walter Pater's Renaissance, which links them through what I call queer detachment. A balance of engagement with and withdrawal from history, this critical perspective anticipates queer theory's methodologies as well as other queer modernist productions. Examining Goodbye to Berlin, Christopher Isherwood's chronicl

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Coste, Bénédicte, and Jane Desmarais. "Translating Decadence." LEA - Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente 6 (April 18, 2024): 7–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/lea-1824-484x-14818.

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This series of articles explores the aesthetics of translation of decadent texts into different languages. It shows how decadence and translation are closely linked and how each is redefined by the other.

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Bock, Oliver. "Decadent Artwork in the Sixties Counterculture Magazines International Times and Oz." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 73, no. 1 (2025): 59–76. https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2025-2007.

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Abstract Leading magazines of 1960s counterculture in Britain made use of decadent aesthetics, yet the significance of this fin-de-siècle form of an artistic and ideological alternative for the counterculture of the Sixties has often been passed over in accounts of the aftermaths of Decadence. The paper examines the allusion to and the usage and assimilation of principles of decadent visual design as well as the visible incorporation of Beardsley-like style elements in selected pieces of artwork published in the magazines International Times (IT) and Oz. Discussing possible functions of these

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Ólafsdóttir, Karólína Rós. "Black Feathers and Poison Wine Decadent Aesthetics in Davíð Stefánsson’s Poetry." LEA - Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente 6 (April 18, 2024): 61–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/lea-1824-484x-15114.

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Davíð Stefánsson (1895-1964) is a poet whose work marks a turning point in early twentieth-century Icelandic literature. This essay offers five new English translations from his first collection Black Feathers (Svartar Fjaðrir,1919) and introduces a new decadent perspective. Decadence is widely regarded as flourishing in emergent modern societies, but, as this essay shows, its influence extended beyond western Europe. Written in a remote place, Stefánsson’s decadence speaks to an aesthetic of emptiness and atemporality. These poems broaden our conception of decadence and evidence a rich cultur

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Rainwater, Crescent. "Netta Syrett, Nobody’s Fault, and Female Decadence: The Story of a Wagnerite." Journal of Victorian Culture 25, no. 2 (2019): 185–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcz057.

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Abstract Scholars have traditionally associated decadence with misogyny, and therefore it has typically been perceived as antithetical to feminism. Nobody’s Fault (1896), Netta Syrett’s first novel, complicates this perception through the way in which the self-assertive protagonist, Bridget Ruan, finds in the decadent music of Richard Wagner a liberating form of aesthetic experience. In this essay, I argue that encountering Wagner’s music marks Bridget’s immersion into a form of decadent culture that affirms her aesthetic longings and awakens her erotic desires. At the same time, the novel con

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Clarke, Tim. "Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Logic of Decadence." J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 11, no. 2 (2023): 333–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2023.a921884.

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Abstract: This essay argues that Ralph Waldo Emerson's thinking and style are governed by a hitherto unrecognized "logic of decadence" that manifests as a fascination with the philosophical and ethical functions of negativity, decay, and destruction. It discerns in Emersonianism a peculiarly American idiolect of decadence—an "alter-decadence"—that emerges from similar sources as that of the fin de siecle Decadent movement but evolves in a divergent direction, notably by valorizing the dialectical tension between the totality of nature and its parts instead of celebrating the breakdown of holis

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Nosenok, B. E. "DECADENCE-LITERATURE: THE IMAGERY SPECIFICITY." UKRAINIAN CULTURAL STUDIES, no. 1 (2017): 34–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/ucs.2017.1.08.

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This article is devoted to the imagery problem of the decadence-literature (as a general phenomenon that periodically repeats itself) and of the literature of the decadency (as an oeuvre of crisis developments in art of the late 19th and early 20th century). The decadence-literatureis a manifestation of the irreducibility. It is proposed to analyze the imagery based on the context of the modernist interpretation of the image / icon. Before the image was considered together with its mimetic foundation – as an imitation of the external world. But here the image is freed from its mimetism, and it

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Mahoney, Kristin. "Taking Wilde to Sri Lanka and Beardsley to Harlem: Decadent Practice, Race, and Orientalism." Victorian Literature and Culture 49, no. 4 (2021): 583–606. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150320000273.

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This article examines the reworking of decadence by writers of color in the early twentieth century, focusing on the uses to which the Harlem Renaissance writer Richard Bruce Nugent and the Sri Lankan writer Lionel de Fonseka put decadent style while engaging in anticolonial critique and contesting rigid categories of power and identity. I read the implementation of decadent aesthetics by Nugent and de Fonseka as a form of criticism that teases out the troubles and potentialities of thinking race and empire through the lens of decadence.

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Van Puymbroeck, Birgit. "Among the Decadents: Nancy Cunard's Art of Imitation." Modernism/modernity 30, no. 3 (2023): 591–609. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mod.2023.a920258.

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Abstract: This article examines Nancy Cunard's early poetry in light of ongoing debates about the relationship between modernism and decadence. Rather than positioning Cunard as a 'dilettante', 'rebel' or 'muse', it suggests that she was a poet in her own right, adopting a modernist-decadent style. Through a close reading of her early poetry, published in the collections Outlaws and Sublunary , and her long poem Parallax , the article considers Cunard's poetry as an example of a continued decadence, showing how Cunard adopted decadent motifs and strategies in her work.

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Alston, Adam. "Decadent Scenography." Afterimage 52, no. 2 (2025): 24–46. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2025.52.2.24.

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This article considers how decadence manifests and takes on meaning and significance in artistic practice today by focusing on the scenographic work of the Anglo-American artist Angel Rose Denman. Denman’s scenographies are informed by decadent style as it emerged in Europe during the fin de siècle, when decadence was associated with decay, obsolescence, and the refinement of that which others might find distasteful. However, she also draws inspiration from a broader range of genres and personalities from the twentieth century including disco, divas, goth subculture, and kitsch. Where decadenc

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Murray, Alex. "Decadent Experience: Conservatism and Modernity." Victorian Literature and Culture 49, no. 4 (2021): 667–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150320000170.

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At the core of literary decadence is a conflicted relationship with modernity. For some decadent writers, the onset of rapid social and technological change could usher in possibilities for living and loving in hitherto unimagined ways, yet for others of a more conservative hue, modernization was to be rejected, tradition embraced. This essay argues that experience can be used as a framework for articulating these very different forms of decadence. The essay begins with an exploration of aesthetic modernity as an attempt to articulate the shock of the new, whereby the experience (present) or s

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Hext, Kate. "“Tired Hedonists” in Los Angeles: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Last Tycoon." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 73, no. 1 (2025): 47–58. https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2025-2006.

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Abstract This article focuses on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final unfinished novel The Last Tycoon. It illustrates how the novel advances the tropes of the decadent movement as an ironic way to evoke Hollywood and, at its centre, the fictional movie mogul Monroe Stahr. In so doing, I situate the novel and its author in the context of American engagements with decadence in the early twentieth century, and show how Fitzgerald creates a distinctly modern American mode of the phenomenon. On this basis, I argue that The Last Tycoon illustrates Fitzgerald’s continued engagements with the concerns and aes

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Rees, William D. J. "“Good Things Don’t Last Forever”: A Dalliance with Disco?" Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 73, no. 1 (2025): 77–90. https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2025-2008.

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Abstract This article examines the idea of liminality in decadence and American disco; of living through a unique moment on the precipice of potential disaster. It discusses how this idea was envisioned through popular conceptions of 1970s disco in its own time, particularly in how Studio 54, the culture’s most famous if also atypically celebrity-driven club, embodied seventies conceptions of decadence in the USA. This article argues that embracing pleasure in the now, despite crisis, can be a decadent way of finding meaning amongst the uncertainties of society and individual lives. Disco is a

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Evangelista, Stefano. "Translational Decadence: Versions of Gustave Flaubert, Walter Pater, and Lafcadio Hearn." Victorian Literature and Culture 49, no. 4 (2021): 807–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150320000285.

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Literary decadence played an active role in promoting the increased circulation and critical scrutiny of literary translations in the second half of the nineteenth century. Building on Walter Benjamin's influential definition of translation as an autonomous literary form, this article examines Walter Pater's “Style” (1888) and Lafcadio Hearn's 1910 translation of Flaubert's Tentation de Saint Antoine (1874) in order to map a theory and practice of decadent translation founded on the aesthetic and ethical respect for the foreignness of the original. Paying closer attention to the aesthetics of

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Yatsenko, Nikita. "Sleepwalkers: Between Decadence and Awakening." Philosophical Literary Journal Logos 35, no. 2 (2025): 333–44. https://doi.org/10.17323/0869-5377-2025-2-333-344.

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The article examines the phenomenon of decadence through the prism of somnambulism. The starting point is Gaito Gazdanov’s critical remark about the meaninglessness of the concept “art of decadence.” Through the analysis of fantastic literature works (Edgar Allan Poe, Nikolai Gogol, Guy de Maupassant) and Sigmund Freud’s concept of the uncanny, the author reinterprets decadence not as decline but as a special state of falling, in which the artist encounters other entities. The study distinguishes between the realistic and the Real in literature, drawing on Valery Podoroga’s works on the realis

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Minturn, Molly. "Decadence." Iowa Review 45, no. 2 (2015): 32. http://dx.doi.org/10.17077/0021-065x.7564.

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Thomas, Gavin, Music Projects, London, Bernas, BBCSO, and Wigglesworth. "Decadence." Musical Times 133, no. 1795 (1992): 466. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1002389.

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Mahoney, Kristin. "Decadence." Victorian Literature and Culture 46, no. 3-4 (2018): 636–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s106015031800044x.

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ALSTON, ADAM. "‘Burn the Witch’: Decadence and the Occult in Contemporary Feminist Performance." Theatre Research International 46, no. 3 (2021): 285–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883321000274.

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This article introduces and theorizes ‘decadence’ as a key feature of Lauren Barri Holstein's performance Notorious (2017). The decadence of Holstein's work is approached in light of two main considerations: the spectacular presentation of witchcraft as an occult practice, and what Holstein ‘does’ with the staging of witches and witchcraft. Situated in light of performances associated with the neo-occult revival (Ivy Monteiro and Jex Blackmore), and a recent strand of feminist performance that revels in an aesthetics of trash, mess and excess (Ann Liv Young and Lucy McCormick), the article off

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Mindani, Mindani, Nova Asvio, and Asmara Yumarni. "Pancasila Student' Profile Project in Overcoming Characters Decadency in The Disruption Era." Islam Transformatif : Journal of Islamic Studies 8, no. 1 (2024): 45–59. https://doi.org/10.30983/it.v8i1.8421.

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Pancasila Student Profile Strengthening Project, known as P5, is a new solution to build valuable students' characters. This study analyzes how P5 was implemented in schools to conquer character decadency in the disruptive era. This study used a qualitative research design to collect the data and a triangulation test to validate the data. The research data was collected in three elementary schools in Bengkulu City. The findings indicate that P5 is running well at the sample schools by looking at several indicators, such as the policy, program, and implementation of P5. Based on the data, the s

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Murray, Alex. "Decadent Constantinople: Symons, Flecker, and Nicolson." Victoriographies 13, no. 2 (2023): 151–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/vic.2023.0490.

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This article examines the work of three British writers – Arthur Symons, James Elroy Flecker, and Harold Nicolson – who all spent time in Constantinople in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Drawing on the Decadent literary aesthetic, they registered their distaste for a city then synonymous with decline. In their poetry, impressionistic prose, and fiction they struggle to write about a city that seemed so amenable to a literature of exhaustion and decay. I argue that the work of Symons and Flecker reveals something like a limit point to the development of literary Decadence. Rath

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Lesińska, Aleksandra. "„Podłe życie miałem”. "Puszczyk" Stefana Grabińskiego wobec modernistycznego dekadentyzmu." Załącznik Kulturoznawczy, no. 10 (December 31, 2023): 535–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.21697/zk.2023.10.24.

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“I Had a Rough Life:” Stefan Grabiński’s Puszczyk and the Decadent Movement in Modernism The article is an attempt to analyze Puszczyk [Tawny Owl], Stefan Grabiński’s first fantastic horror novella, thus introducing this little-known work into the study of pessimistic attitudes prevailing during Modernism, i.e. at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The research is placed in the context of selected approaches to decadence as one of the leading philosophical movements of the era and one which perfectly reflected the mood and melancholic attitudes of the time when the literary work was crea

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Jackson, Kimberly. "NON-EVOLUTIONARY DEGENERATION IN ARTHUR MACHEN'S SUPERNATURAL TALES." Victorian Literature and Culture 41, no. 1 (2013): 125–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150312000253.

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Welsh author Arthur Machen (1863–1947) wrote his most popular supernatural tales between 1890 and 1900, a period in which European culture felt itself to be on the decline and in which “decadent” art and literature rose up both as a reflection of and a contribution to this perceived cultural deterioration. While Machen's works have received little critical attention, a recent revival of interest in fin-de-siècle decadence has brought his supernatural tales into the literary limelight. Noteworthy examples of this interest include Julian North's treatment of The Great God Pan in Michael St. John

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Illies, Christian. "Hope in decadence// L'espérance dans la decadence." International Political Anthropology 14, no. 1 (2021): 37–42. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5018887.

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Bikulčius, Vytautas. "Michel Houellebecq’s Submission – a novel of decadence." Literatūra 61, no. 4 (2019): 94–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/litera.2019.4.7.

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Michel Houellebecq’s Submission has been analysed as a novel of decadence in this paper. Referring to the works of Michel Winock, François Livi and Michel Onfray, it has been found that a decadent novel can be associated not only with the works of Joris-Karl Huysmans, Pierre Loűys, Jean Lorrain and others produced at the end of the 19th century but also at subsequent periods. Such characteristics of decadent writing as the threat of catastrophe, fundamental changes in society, nostalgia can be found in the analysed novel.François, the main character of the novel, an expert on Huysmans and a pr

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Presto, Jenifer. "The Aesthetics of Disaster: Blok, Messina, and the Decadent Sublime." Slavic Review 70, no. 3 (2011): 569–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.5612/slavicreview.70.3.0569.

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In this article, Jenifer Presto argues that the 1908 Messina-Reggio Calabria earthquake had an impact on Aleksandr Blok no less significant than that which the 1755 Lisbon earthquake had on writers of the Enlightenment and proceeds to demonstrate how it shaped Blok's aesthetics of catastrophe. This aesthetics can best be termed the “decadent sublime, ” an inversion of the Kantian dynamic sublime with its emphasis on bourgeois optimism. Following Immanuel Kant, Blok acknowledges the fear and attraction that nature's forces can inspire; however, unlike Kant, he insists that modern man remains po

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Hornby, Richard. "Southern Decadence." Hudson Review 57, no. 1 (2004): 111. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4151389.

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Duran, Jane. "On Decadence." Philosophy 65, no. 254 (1990): 455–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0031819100064688.

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When one visits Thailand, one is struck by the enormous number of temples in the urban Bangkok area, many of which are conspicuously absent from the more cherished art historical works on the art and architecture of south-east Asia. The Wat Po complex and Wat Reitmit, one discovers, whatever their virtues for the Western tourist, are not among the temples and archaeological sites mentioned in the text of such an authority as Benjamin Rowland. Nor are these temples—when cited at all—discussed in the same vein as, for example, the Konarak temples of Orissa (India), where at least some veneration

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Teukolsky, Rachel. "On the Politics of Decadent Rebellion: Beardsley, Japonisme, Rococo." Victorian Literature and Culture 49, no. 4 (2021): 643–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150320000182.

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The graphic designer Aubrey Beardsley created perverse, grotesque illustrations that encapsulate our sense of decadent visuality. This essay explores Beardsley's use of foreign styles, specifically those of nineteenth-century Japan and eighteenth-century France. Looking at Beardsley's illustrations for Salomé (1893) and The Rape of the Lock (1895), the essay argues that the Japanese and French stylistic influences are actually connected, despite their diverse geographies and temporalities. Studying both styles together reveals the ways that decadence embraced hierarchy and the inequality of pe

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Dowthwaite, James. "Revisiting the Decadence of Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776–1787)." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 73, no. 1 (2025): 21–33. https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2025-2004.

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Abstract Edward Gibbon’s famous account of the slow ending of the Roman empire, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776–1787) has long been held to be central to the conception of what decadence is on a civilisational level. ‘Decadence’ as a concept, however, is not something that Gibbon himself ever outlined, and so his links to it were really applied retrospectively. In this article, I outline which aspects of Gibbon’s work were attractive to decadent writers, and what affordances – formal and conceptual – his Decline and Fall provided them. These, I argue, were the fol

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Obasola, Kehinde Emmanuel, and Ruth Adebola Oreweme. "The ‘Dekadent’ Distinctive in Nietzsche’s Amoral Philosophy and its Consequences for Nigerian Youths." Tropical Journal of Arts and Humanities 6, no. 2 (2024): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.47524/tjah.v6i2.8.

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This paper briefly examines Nietzsche‟s conception of „dekadent‟ (decadent) and its implications for the youths in the Nigerian context. Fredrick Nietzsche was a German philosopher who was a strong proponent of moral ideology that stands in opposition against all pro-moral philosophies and the Christian morality in particular. He encourages super stars and demy-gods‟ lifestyles in his conception of moral decadence and his philosophy are highly regarded in scholarship as a strong foundational basis on which the postmodern moral ideology heavily rests. Nietzsche‟s philosophy on moral decadence a

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Gryakalova, Nataliya. "THE POLEMIC CONTEXT OF THE “SICK CHILD” IMAGE BY A. A. BLOK." Проблемы исторической поэтики 19, no. 3 (2021): 222–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.15393/j9.art.2021.9902.

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This study examines the early phase of the self-defining process in Russian literary modernism, which demonstrated a desire to establish clear demarcation between “decadence” and “symbolism” on one hand and to be free from the psychopathological discourse in the evaluation of new artistic phenomena, thereby shifting the conventionally recognized border between “norm” and “pathology.” This paper analyses Aleksander Blok’s own views on “decadence” and “decadents” on the basis of his ego-documents (his diary and notebooks), discusses “decadents” and “symbolists” in the press, and, finally, the po

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Stetz, Margaret D. "The Age of Decadence." Victorian Literature and Culture 50, no. 2 (2022): 417–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150322000018.

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What does “decadence” mean? Does it mean anything at all? Is it sinister or irresistibly appealing? Regardless of the ambiguity that surrounds the word “decadence” (often with a small “d”), no one can deny that decadence (frequently with a capital “D,” especially when it alludes to the late nineteenth-century European cultural movement) has been sweeping the world of academic publishing. Seen from the perspective of 2022, the past few years appear to have been, at least among scholars, a decade of decadence. Joseph Bristow opens his chapter on “Female Decadence” for the 2016 volume The History

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Kharitonova, Anna. "Falsification of content: decadence and simplification as the extreme forms of internal protest of the heroines of M. V. Krestovskaya’s novella “The Outcry”." Litera, no. 6 (June 2020): 56–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8698.2020.6.33121.

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This article examines novella by Maria Krestovskaya &ldquo;The Outcry&rdquo; (1900) in the context of reception of the phenomenon of decadence in Russian literature of turn of the XIX &ndash; XX centuries. This novella by the mostly forgotten writer, who in her works refers mostly to the female topics (love, family, and profession), is currently of particular interest from the perspective of reflection of cultural trends of that time. A &ldquo;typical female story&rdquo; about the unhappy marriage, aimed against the power of money, insincerity and lack of freedom, puts deca

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Valentine, Colton. "Domesticating Decadence: Joris-Karl Huysmans, Pierre Louÿs, and Their Invisible English Translators." Modern Language Quarterly 82, no. 4 (2021): 441–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00267929-9365957.

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Abstract Decadence eludes definition, but critics tend to concur on the movement’s transgressive and uncommercial status in the British literary field. This essay questions those associations by exploring a current of archetypal decadent French novels translated by and marketed to a mainstream Anglophone audience: Joris-Karl Huysmans’s En Route (1895, trans. 1896) and La cathédrale (1898, trans. 1898) and Pierre Louÿs’s Aphrodite: Mœurs antiques (1896, trans. 1900 and 1906) and La femme et le pantin (1898, trans. 1908). By reading letters, memoirs, and prefaces alongside periodical reviews and

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Talbot, Emile. "Nelligan and Decadence." Quebec Studies 11 (October 1990): 83–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/qs.11.1.83.

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Kopelson, Kevin, and Ellis Hanson. "Decadence and Catholicism." SubStance 31, no. 1 (2002): 129. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3685815.

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Potolsky, Matthew. "Decadence and Realism." Victorian Literature and Culture 49, no. 4 (2021): 563–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150320000248.

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This essay proposes a new understanding of the widely recognized disdain for realism and the realist novel among decadent writers, a disdain most critics have interpreted as a protomodernist celebration of artifice. Focusing on Oscar Wilde's dialogue “The Decay of Lying,” the essay argues instead that decadent antirealism is antimodern, embodying a repudiation of contemporary society. Decadent writers regard realism not as hidebound and traditional, as twentieth-century theorists would have it, but as terrifyingly modern. Wilde looks back to neoclassical theories of mimesis and classical Repub

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Denisoff, Dennis. "Feminist global decadence." Feminist Modernist Studies 4, no. 2 (2021): 137–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/24692921.2021.1950468.

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O’Flaherty, James C. "Dialectics and Decadence." International Studies in Philosophy 31, no. 4 (1999): 116–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/intstudphil199931481.

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ROBINSON, HARLOW. "Flirting with Decadence." Opera Quarterly 8, no. 4 (1991): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oq/8.4.1.

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Volpicelli, Robert. "The New Decadence." Modernism/modernity 26, no. 1 (2019): 213–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mod.2019.0009.

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