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Journal articles on the topic "Western decadence"

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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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Wu, Di Cotofan. "Decadent Resistance in Colonial Korea: Kim Tong-in’s Artistic Subversion in “Fire Sonata”." CUSP: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Cultures 3, no. 1 (2025): 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1353/cusp.2025.a952398.

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Abstract: This essay reinterprets Kim Tong-in’s short story “Fire Sonata” (1929) within the framework of “lyo-colonial decadence,” proposing it as a subtle form of resistance to Japanese colonial rule. By merging Western decadence, Japanese diabolism, and indigenous Korean expressions, the narrative critiques colonial oppression and explores themes of madness, trauma, and artistic autonomy. Through Kim’s portrayal of morbid artistry, the essay highlights how Korean intellectuals used decadence to reclaim personal sovereignty and critique both Japanese and Western cultural hegemony. This study
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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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Nosenok, B. E. "NESTOR PILYAVSKY’S "WESTERN LIAO": MYTHOLOGY AND IMAGERY OF SPACE." UKRAINIAN CULTURAL STUDIES, no. 2 (3) (2018): 18–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/ucs.2018.2(3).04.

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This article is an attempt to prepare an image. But this time the image falls not into a plot (like a storyline) and composition, but into time and space. It has been repeatedly noted (especially it is subject to literary criticism) that the image (in this case an artistic image) builds its own space-time grid of coordinates, and therefore time and space can gallantly violate the laws of physics here. Also, one of the main obvious goals of this culturologicalinvestigation is a comparison of the methods and techniques of poetry and prose, a handholdof the specifics of time’s and space’s express
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Grobbelaar, M. "Verskyningsvorme van estetisisme en dekadensie in Sy kom met die sekelmaan en Kaapse rekwisiete." Literator 16, no. 1 (1995): 51–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v16i1.584.

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Manifestations of aestheticism and decadence in Sy kom met die sekelmaan and Kaapse rekwisieteThis article offers a new perspective on the novels of two well-known Afrikaans authors, namely Hettie Smit's Sy kom met die sekelmaan (1937) and Wilma Stockenstrom's Kaapse rekwisiete (1987). Both literary works are read within the framework of late nineteenth-century Western European and British aestheticism and decadence. Characteristic elements of aesthetic and decadent literature, such as an emphasis on artificiality - especially the tendency towards the fictionalization of reality narcissism, se
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Amano, Ikuho. "A Decadent Hermitage. Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s The Golden Death as a Dilettante Translation of Artificial Paradise." LEA - Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente 6 (April 18, 2024): 101–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/lea-1824-484x-15116.

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Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s novella The Golden Death (1914) commemorates Japan’s participation in the global circulation of fin de siècle decadence and Aestheticism. A close study of The Golden Death shows how the protagonist Okamura’s project of building his artificial paradise showcases a chaotic bricolage of European and Asian artefacts and literary masterpieces. Failing to emulate fin de siècle writers, the Japanese novella simultaneously reveals the author’s inability to formulate a clearly defined aesthetic belief through borrowing Western counterparts. This tragicomic story reflects Japan’s u
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Gil, Ibáñez Alberto. "End of Europe or New Renaissance?" International Political Anthropology 14, no. 1 (2021): 25–28. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5018861.

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Grobbelaar, M., and H. Roos. "’n Interpretasie van Karel Schoeman se roman, ’n Ander land binne die raamwerk van die laat negentiendeeeuse estetisistiese en dekadente literêre tradisie." Literator 14, no. 1 (1993): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v14i1.686.

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The first motivation for reading Karel Schoeman’s novel ’n Ander land within the framework of late nineteenth century Western European decadcnt literature is the strong resemblance between Schoeman's character Versluis and Des Esseintes, main character of the so-called Bible of Decadence, namely Joris- Karl Huysmans’ A Rebours (1884). Schoeman’s cultivated narrative style, his use of archaic Dutch and French words and the fact that this novel h as 'no story’, confirm the affinity of ’n Ander land with the decadent literary tradition as established by Huysmans’ plotless novel. The ultimate visi
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Traoré, Moussa, and Ruth Bernice Akyen. "African postcolonial fiction and the poetics of eco-cultural decadence: Re-reading Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born and Sembène Ousmane’s Xala." Legon Journal of the Humanities 32, no. 2 (2022): 55–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ljh.v32i2.3.

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In the depiction of post-independence Africa, the collapse of traditional moral values is a major preoccupation. This concern is often represented in the form of despicable behaviors exhibited by characters, often influenced by Western ideologies, and also in metaphors of decay or decadence. Decadence, from the literary sense of the word, could be interpreted as the moral or cultural rottenness of a community and in the literal usage of the term, it can be understood as an environmental uncleanness. Morally, a society is decayed if its moral principles and philosophies of living are weak while
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Okulicz-Kozaryn, Radosław. "Why Did Čiurlionis Write the Word Decadence in Quotes? The Analysis of His February 1902 Letter to His Brother Povilas." Colloquia 46 (December 30, 2021): 45–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.51554/coll.21.46.03.

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The paper offers a philological and contextual analysis of the word decadence as it was employed in Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis’s letter to his brother Povilas dated 6 February 1902. The Lithuanian artist implored his relative not to delve into his inner self because of the risk of falling into depression. Using his brother’s confessions, his own introspection, and intellectual experience, Čiurlionis explores this issue quite extensively. In his approach he refers to the theory of nervousness, uses the concepts of self-analysis and decadence, putting the latter in quotes. The quotes mark
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Books on the topic "Western decadence"

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Marián, Gálik, and Ústav orientalistiky (Slovenská akadémia vied), eds. Fin de siècle (decadence) in Sino-Western literary confrontation: Selected papers read at the international symposium, Vienna University, June 9, 1999. Institute of Oriental and African Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 2005.

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Barzun, Jacques. From dawn to decadence: 500 years of cultural triumph and defeat, 1500 to the present. HarperCollins, 2000.

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Mingxuan, Zheng, ed. Cong li ming dao shuai luo: Wu bai nian lai de xi fang wen hua sheng huo = from dawn to decadence : 1500 to the present, 500 years of western cultural life. Mao tou ying chu ban she, 2004.

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Spengler, Oswald. La decadencia de occidente. Espasa Calpe, 1998.

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Spengler, Oswald. La decadencia de occidente: Bosquejo de una morfología de la historia universal. Espasa Calpe, 1998.

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Spengler, Oswald. La decadencia de Occidente: Bosquejo de una morfologi a de la historia universal. Espasa Calpe, 2007.

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Barzun, Jacques. From Dawn to Decadence. HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2001.

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Barzun, Jacques. From Dawn to Decadence. HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2001.

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Barzun, Jacques. From Dawn to Decadence: Library Edition. 3rd ed. Blackstone Audiobooks, 2002.

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Barzun, Jacques. From Dawn to Decadence: The twentieth century. HarperAudio, 2001.

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Book chapters on the topic "Western decadence"

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Gagnier, Regenia. "The Ironies of Western Individualism." In Individualism, Decadence and Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230277540_2.

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Shariati, Ali. "Critical Attitude toward the West and the Idea of Western Decadence." In Contemporary Debates in Islam. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-61955-9_29.

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Shariati, Ali. "Critical Attitude toward the West and the Idea of Western Decadence." In Modernist and Fundamentalist Debates in Islam. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-09848-1_29.

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Ibelema, Minabere. "All things decadent are Western." In Cultural Chauvinism. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003148906-6.

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Glaser, Hermann. "Western Decadence." In The Cultural Roots of National Socialism. Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429284625-14.

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Weir, David. "Afterword." In Decadence: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780190610227.003.0006.

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Manifestations of decadence outside of western Europe appear to confirm philosopher Theodor Adorno’s thesis that decadence entails an implicit critique of modernity. The elevation of decadence to a position of such heightened social and cultural significance is only one part of the legacy of Baudelaire, Huysmans, and Wilde. Today, academic interest in decadence is on the rise and a set of sociocultural concerns that once seemed secondary or derivative now appears far more substantial than the notion of "decadent style" or of some other purely aesthetic analysis. Because of its conflicted sense
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Herold-Zanker, Katharina. "Perfect and Poisonous Dependencies." In Decadence and Orientalism in England and Germany, 1880-1920. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780191990489.003.0001.

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Abstract Drawing on postcolonial theories of cosmopolitanism and latest developments in decadence Studies, this chapter views Orientalism and decadence as intertwined discourses. It argues that the special relationship between European decadence and Orientalism became particularly visible at the turn of the century when cultural images from Middle Eastern and North African regions were abstracted into decadent images of hybridity—synthesizing Eastern and Western traits in a cosmopolitan yet universalist gesture. The East emerges as a plural and ahistorical concept dominated in the Western fin-
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Bootle, Sam. "Bibelotic Buddhas: Decadence and its Critics." In French Decadence in a Global Context. Liverpool University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781802070569.003.0002.

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In the late nineteenth century, Western interest in Buddhism was frequently invoked in cultural critique as a symptom — and indeed cause — of cultural decline. Widely seen as a nihilistic religion that promoted apathy, Buddhism was condemned by critics who deemed it to be undermining faith in progress, and sapping the willpower of a generation that ought to be seeking revenge against Germany. Jules Clarétie’s 1888 novella Bouddha fuses this argument with a denunciation of France’s war with China in South-East Asia, which is held to be a distraction from the pursuit of revenge: in it, a Buddha
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Beckeld, Benedict. "Introduction." In Western Self-Contempt. Cornell University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501763182.003.0001.

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This chapter heads back to the beginnings of the West and travels through time and space up to the present day. It reveals the cyclicality of societies through history and philosophical trends, among which oikophobia appears and reappears. As the chapter highlights, the simplest way of defining “oikophobia” is to state that it is the opposite extreme of xenophobia. Oikophobia means the fear or hatred of home or one's own society. It argues that oikophobia and xenophobia are pathologies of a cultural sort, which develop in particular sociohistorical circumstances. The chapter also stresses that
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Akintona, Emmanuel Ola, and Daramola Oluwadolapo. "Developing Ethical Principles from Indigenous Moral Values." In African Moral Character and Creative Thinking Principles. Obafemi Awolowo University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/amc2019352.

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Moral decadence has reached an alarming stage in Nigeria to the extent that people now freely engage in all sorts of anti-social behaviours detrimental to national development. Westernization has been conflated with civility and modernity, and African traditional moral values reduced to nothing. The adoption of Western ethical principles as ideals, and the abandonment of African indigenous moral values have done more harm than good to our national development. This paper adopts a critical and conceptual analytic method to address the problem of moral decadence in Nigeria which has eaten deep i
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