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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
248
Utgivningsdatum
2002-08-01
Upplaga
illustrated ed
Utmärkelser
Commended for Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies 2004 (United States)
Förlag
Johns Hopkins University Press
Medarbetare
Kline, T. Jefferson (ed.), Schor, Naomi (ed.)
Illustrationer
7 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Halftones, black and white
Dimensioner
225 x 140 x 20 mm
Vikt
400 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780801867408

Decadent Subjects

The Idea of Decadence in Art, Literature, Philosophy, and Culture of the Fin de Sicle in Europe

av Charles Bernheimer, T Jefferson Kline, Naomi Schor
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2002-08-01
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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 siecle 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 siecle 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 siecle.
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Effortlessly integrating his amazing archival research, Bernheimer gives readers the sense of being in a collegial seminar with him. Choice 2003 An excellent book by a well-known authority in the areas of European literature, culture, and psychoanalysis. -- Christopher S. Nassaar Pre-Raphaelite Studies 2005

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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.

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Contents: Decadent Subjects: The Idea of Decadence in Art, Literature, Philosophy, and Culture of the Fin de Siecle 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

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