Decadence in literature and intellectual debate since 1945

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 and ©2014

Subject:

Decadence in literature

Contributor:

Landgraf, Diemo, editor

ISBN:

9781137431011 and 1137431016

Description:

xi, 232 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Contents:

PART I: HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES -- 1. On the Notion of Decadence in the FRG and France after 1945 -- with Examples by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Botho Strauss, and Richard Millet / Diemo Landgraf -- 2. 'In the very quick of the nightmare': Decadence and Mystics of Wilderness in Henry Miller's Cultural Criticism of Modernity / Mario Bosincu -- 3. The Function of Decadence and Ascendance in Analytic Philosophy / Jens Lemanski and Konstantin Alogas -- 4. Progress and Decadence -- Poststructuralism as Progressivism; Gerald Hoffleit -- PART II: DECADENCE AND THE POLITICS OF CULTURE AND LANGUAGE -- 5. The Concept of Decadence as Ideological and Law Enforcement Category in the GDR / Torben Ibs -- 6. 'Joual en stock' -- The Controversial Issue of Language Quality and Autochthonous Standardization in Quebec / Claus D. Pusch -- PART III: LITERARY AND FILM STUDIES -- 7. Michelangelo Antonioni's Early 'Trilogy of Decadence': L'avventura (1960), La notte (1961), L'eclisse (1962) / Jakob Willis -- 8. Houellebecq's Fin-de-Siècle: Crisis of Society, Crisis of the Novel -- Thematic and Poetological Intertextuality between Michel Houellebecq and Joris-Karl Huysmans / Betül Dilmac -- 9. The Shadow of Decadence: The Latin American Boom and the Taboo of the Spanish Novel of the Democratic Period / Pablo Sánchez -- 10. Exile and Writing: Alfredo Bryce Echenique and the Decadence of the Myth of Paris / Blanca Navarro Pardiñas -- 11. Tradition, (post) modernity, and decadence in Vargas Llosa's Lituma en los Andes and Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto / Diemo Landgraf

Summary:

"In the field of literary and cultural studies, the understanding of decadence is usually confined to aesthetic phenomena from Baudelaire to the European fin-de-siècle. The present interdisciplinary anthology with contributions by Canadian, German, Italian, and Spanish scholars aims to bridge the gap between decadence as it is traditionally understood in literary and cultural studies and its relevance to current phenomena. The different chapters focus on historical and philosophical perspectives, discussions in the fields of cultural and language politics, literary texts, and movies from Europe and America since 1945"-- Provided by publisher

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

PN56.D45 D436 2014

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