Screen LibraryDecadent poetics Literature and form at the British fin de siecle /
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,...
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| Language: | English |
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Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
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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. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9781137348289. |
| Carrier Form: | 256 p. |
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9781137348289 9781137348296 : 1137348291 : |
| CLC: | I561.064 |
| Contents: | 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 Siecle?-- 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 |