Bernheimer / Kline / Schor Decadent Subjects

The Idea of Decadence in Art, Literature, Philosophy, and Culture of the Fin de Siècle in Europe
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8018-7464-2
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society

Honorable Mention for the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies from the Modern Language Association

Charles Bernheimer described decadence as a "stimulant that bends thought out of shape, deforming traditional conceptual molds." In this posthumously published work, Bernheimer succeeds in making a critical concept out of this perennially fashionable, rarely understood term.

Decadent Subjects is a coherent and moving picture of fin de siècle decadence. Mature, ironic, iconoclastic, and thoughtful, this remarkable collection of essays shows the contradictions of the phenomenon, which is both a condition and a state of mind. In seeking to show why people have failed to give a satisfactory account of the term decadence, Bernheimer argues that we often mistakenly take decadence to represent something concrete, that we see as some sort of agent. His salutary response is to return to those authors and artists whose work constitutes the topos of decadence, rereading key late nineteenth-century authors such as Nietzsche, Zola, Hardy, Wilde, Moreau, and Freud to rediscover the very dynamics of the decadent. Through careful analysis of the literature, art, and music of the fin de siècle 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 siècle.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bernheimer, Charles

Kline, T. Jefferson

Schor, Naomi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Decadent Subjects: The Idea of Decadence in Art, Literature, Philosophy, and Culture of the Fin de Siècle in Europe
Editors' Preface
Introduction
Nietzsche's Decadence Philosophy
Flaubert's Salambo: History in Decadence
Decadent Naturalism/Naturalist Decadence
Visions of Salome
Decadent Diagnostics
Freud's Decadence
Appendix: Outline of Freud's Decadence

Über Autor(innen)

Kline, T. Jefferson
T. Jefferson Kline is a professor of French at Boston University.

Bernheimer, Charles
Charles Bernheimer is cochair of the program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. His books include Flaubert and Kafka: Studies in Psychopoetic Structure and Figures of Ill Repute: Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France.

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.