Decadent Poetics

Literature and Form at the British Fin de Siècle
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-349-46762-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 235 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3212 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture

Decadent Poetics explores the complex and vexed topic of decadent literature's formal characteristics and interrogates previously held assumptions around the nature of decadent form. Writers studied include Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire and Algernon Charles Swinburne, as well as A.E. Housman, Arthur Machen and Hubert Crackanthorpe.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Murray, A.

Hall, J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Decadent Poetics; Alex Murray and Jason David Hall 1. How Decadent Poems Die; Joseph Bristow 2. Did a Decadent Metre Exist at the Fin de Siècle?; Meredith Martin 3. Decadent Forms: Parnassus in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction; Marion Thain 4. 'The Harem of Words': Attenuation and Excess in Decadent Poetry; Nick Freeman 5. In Praise of Decadence: The Epideictic Mode from Baudelaire to Wilde; Matthew Potolsky 6. Another Renaissance: The Decadent Poetic Drama of A. C. Swinburne and Michael Field; Ana Parejo Vadillo 7. Salome, Simile, Symboliste; Ellis Hanson 8. Naturalism and Decadence: The Case of Hubert Crackanthorpe; William Greenslade 9. 'A Disembodied Voice': The Posthuman Formlessness of Decadence; Dennis Denisoff 10. Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence; Catherine Maxwell Select Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Joseph Bristow, University of California, USA
Dennis Denisoff, Ryerson University, Canada
Nick Freeman, Loughborough University, UK
William Greenslade, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
Jason David Hall, University of Exeter, UK
Ellis Hanson, Cornell University, USA
Meredith Martin, Princeton University, USA
Catherine Maxwell, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Alex Murray, University of Exeter, UK
Matthew Potolsky, University of Utah, USA
Marion Thain, University of Sheffield, UK
Ana Parejo Vadillo, University of London, UK