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Ästhetische Rebellion und rebellische Ästheten : eine kulturgeschichtliche Studie über den europäischen Dandyismus.
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ISBN: 3631357885 9783631357880 Year: 2000 Volume: 66 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Lang

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Lire le symbolisme
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ISSN: 12429279 ISBN: 2100014943 9782100014941 Year: 1993 Publisher: Paris Dunod


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La littérature fin de siècle de 1884 à 1898 : entre décadentisme et modernité
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ISBN: 2711784576 9782711784578 Year: 1994 Publisher: Paris Vuibert


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Symbolisme.
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ISBN: 9062878806 9789062878802 Year: 1980 Publisher: Amsterdam Wetenschappelijke uitg.

Decadence and Catholicism
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ISBN: 0674194462 0674194446 9780674194465 Year: 1997 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard university press

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Romantic writers had found in Christianity a poetic cult of the imagination, an assertion of the spiritual quality of beauty in an age of vulgar materialism. The decadents, a diverse movement of writers, were the climax and exhaustion of this romantic tradition. In their art, they enacted the romance of faith as a protest against the dreariness of modern life. Ellis Hanson teases out two strands-eroticism and aestheticism-that rendered the decadent interest in Catholicism extraordinary. More than any other literary movement, the decadents explored the powerful historical relationship between homoeroticism and Roman Catholicism. Why, throughout history, have so many homosexuals been attracted to Catholic institutions that vociferously condemn homosexuality? This perplexing question is pursued in this elegant and innovative book. Late-nineteenth-century aesthetes found in the Church a peculiar language that gave them a means of artistic and sexual expression. The brilliant cast of characters that parades through this book includes Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire, J-K. Huysmans, Walter Pater, and Paul Verlaine. Art for these writers was a mystical and erotic experience. In decadent Catholicism we can glimpse the beginnings of a postmodern valorization of perversity and performativity. Catholicism offered both the hysterical symptom and the last hope for paganism amid the dullness of Victorian puritanism and bourgeois materialism.

Symbolism, decadence and the fin de siècle : French and European perspectives
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ISBN: 0859896463 9780859896467 Year: 2019 Publisher: Exeter, U.K. : University of Exeter Press,

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"In 1891, in a survey of the literary field conducted for the newspaper L'Echo de Paris, Stephane Mallarme told his interviewer, 'we are witnessing a truly extraordinary spectacle', while the playwright and poet Saint-Pol-Roux described the literary culture of the French fin de siecle as a 'collective volcano', predicting an imminent renaissance of artistic forms. The playwright, novelist and cult leader Josephin Peladan announced that, on the contrary, culture was facing 'terminal putrefaction'. This book provides a sophisticated, varied and ultimately coherent means of exploring such contradictory perspectives."--Jacket

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