The Dedalus Book of German Decadence
Author | : Raymond Furness |
Publisher | : Hippocrene Books |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Raymond Furness |
Publisher | : Hippocrene Books |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Graham Anderson |
Publisher | : SCB Distributors |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2024-05-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1912868709 |
The Decadent Movement which flourished in the 1890s produced some of Europe’s most striking and exotic works of literature. The Decadents, convinced that civilisation was in a state of terminal decline, refused to rebel as the Romantics had, but set forth instead to cultivate the pleasures of calculated perversity and to seek the artificial paradise of drug-induced hallucination. J.-K. Huysmans described Decadence as a ‘black feast’ and The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence offers a veritable banquet, with offerings from the major practitioners in France and England. It completes Brian Stableford seminal two-volume study of the decadent movement.
Author | : Geoffrey Farrington |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This volume collects the poetry and prose that served as the model and inspiration for so much of fin-de-siecle English and French writing, providing a vivid picture of sexual excess and debauchery in a cruel and violent society which has never ceased to fascinate the library and scholarly imagination of succeeding generations. The editor, novelist Geoffrey Farrington, provides a general introduction to the literary and political milieux of imperial Rome, and introductory notes to works by such authors as Ovid, Tacitus, Suetonius, and Juvenal. "...concentrates on the outrageous behaviour of the ruling class of the Roman Empire, as described in passages selected from the prose, poetry and history of the period. Their murder plots, sexual deviances, orgies, cruelty and incessant intrigue put our politicians and their peccadillos on a play school level." Time Out
Author | : Brian M. Stableford |
Publisher | : Hippocrene Books |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : STABLEFORD Brian[Ed] |
Publisher | : Dedalus |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2022-02-14 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781912868681 |
The Decadence Movement which flourished in the 1890s produced some of Europe's most striking and exotic works of literature The Decadents, convinced that civilization was in a state of terminal decline, refused to rebel as the Romantics had, but set forth instead to cultivate the pleasures of calculated perversity and to seek the artificial paradise of drug-induced hallucination. The Dedalus Book of Decadence looks south to sample the essence of fine French decadent writing. It succeeds in delivering a range of writers either searching vigorously for the thrill of a healthy crime or lamenting their impuissance from a sickly stupor. --Andrew St George in The Independent
Author | : John Clute |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 1110 |
Release | : 1999-03-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780312198695 |
Like its companion volume, "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction", this massive reference of 4,000 entries covers all aspects of fantasy, from literature to art.
Author | : Michael Mitchell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Ever since the fin de siecle Austrian literature has been fertile ground for fantasy in the widest sense and the genre was taken up again by new generations after the Second World War. The Dedalus Book of Austrian Fantasy: 1890-2000 contains stories from authors of the 1890s (Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal), the years around the First World War (Kafka, Meyrink), the post-war era, when Kafka was rediscovered, (Jeannie Ebner, Ilse Aichinger) to the present day (H C Artmann, Michael Koehlmeier). The stories range from the 'freudian' to the 'kafkaesque', to the surreal, grotesque, comic, occult and straightforwardly supernatural. A.S.Byatt described it in The Guardian as one of the best anthologies she has ever read.
Author | : Kirsten Lodge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Including writings by the well-known authors Valery Briusov, Leonid Andreyev, Fedor Sologub and Zinaida Gippius, this collection explores the darkest depths of the unconscious, which lead their characters to sadism, masochism, rape, murder and suicide.
Author | : Stephen Downes |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2010-06-03 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0521767571 |
Downes presents a detailed examination of the significance of decadence in Central and Eastern European modernist music.
Author | : Jane Desmarais |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 745 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0190066954 |
Edited by Jane Desmarais and David Weir.