Decadences - Morality and Aesthetics in British Literature.

2. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-89821-573-2
Verlag: ibidem

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 430 Seiten, PB, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 555 g

Reihe: Studies in English Literatures

This revised and expanded volume examines the intersections of aesthetics and morality and asks what Decadence means to art and society at various moments in British literature. As time passes, the definition of what it takes to be D/decadent changes. The decline from a higher standard, social malaise, aesthetic ennui – all these ideas presume certain facts about the past, the present, and the linear nature of time itself. To reject the past as a given, and to relish the subtleties of present nuance, is the beginning of Decadence. The conflict underlying the contributions to this collection is that of society`s moral contempt vis-a-vis the focus on the fleeting present on part of the purportedly decadent artists; who in turn thought the truly decadent to be the stranglehold society maintained on individual interpretation and the interpretation of oneself.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fox, Paul

Melikoglu, Koray

Sözalan, Özden

Weitere Mitwirkende

Melikoglu, Koray

Sözalan, Özden

Towheed, Shafquat

Burton, Brian

Marcovitch, Heather

Nabholz, Ann-Cathrine

Catanzaro, Michael

Lutz, Deborah

Langley, Eric

Whitlark, James

Robinson, Bonnie

Macura, Ewa

Maier, Sarah

Christensen, Peter

Dierkes-Thrun, Petra

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Fox (Ph.D. University of Georgia) is an Associate Professor at East Georgia College. He has published articles upon fin de siècle aesthetics, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde and J. M. Barrie. He is currently completing a book-length study of Decadence and aesthetic time.