Perennial decay : on the aesthetics and politics of decadence /
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| Imprint: | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1999. |
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| Description: | vi, 318 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3615886 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Liz Constable, Matthew Potolsky and Dennis Denisoff
- 1. Interversions / Barbara Spackman
- 2. Unknowing Decadence / Charles Bernheimer
- 3. Decadent Paradoxes / Michael Riffaterre, Liz Constable and Matthew Potolsky
- 4. Posing a Threat: Queensberry, Wilde, and the Portrayal of Decadence / Dennis Denisoff
- 5. Decadent Critique: Constructing "History" in Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover / David Wayne Thomas
- 6. Opera and the Discourse of Decadence: From Wagner to AIDS / Marc A. Weiner
- 7. Spaces of the Demimonde / Subcultures of Decadence: 1890-1990 / Emily Apter
- 8. "Comment Peut-on Etre Homosexuel?": Multinational (In)Corporation and the Frenchness of Salome / Melanie C. Hawthorne
- 9. The Politics of Posing: Translating Decadence in Fin-de-Siecle Latin America / Sylvia Molloy
- 10. Improper Names: Pseudonyms and Transvestites in Decadent Prose / Leonard R. Koos
- 11. Imperial Dependency, Addiction, and the Decadent Body / Hema Chari
- 12. Pale Imitations: Walter Pater's Decadent Historiography / Matthew Potolsky
- 13. "Golden Mediocrity": Pater's Marcus Aurelius and the Making of Decadence / Sharon Bassett
- 14. Fetishizing Writing: The Politics of Fictional Form in the Work of Remy de Gourmont and Josephin Peladan / Jennifer Birkett
- 15. "Ce Bazar Intellectuel": Maurice Barres, Decadent Masters, and Nationalist Pupils / Liz Constable.