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  1. Décadence fin de siècle
    Published: [2017]; © 2017
    Publisher:  Gallimard, Paris

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  2. Decadent orientalisms
    the decay of colonial modernity
    Author: Fieni, David
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, New York

    "Decadent Orientalisms presents a sustained critique of the ways Orientalism and decadence have formed a joint discursive mode of the imperial imagination. Rather than attending to Orientalism as a repertoire of clichés and stereotypes, Fieni reads... more

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    "Decadent Orientalisms presents a sustained critique of the ways Orientalism and decadence have formed a joint discursive mode of the imperial imagination. Rather than attending to Orientalism as a repertoire of clichés and stereotypes, Fieni reads both Western and Islamic discourses of decadence to show the diffuse, yet coherent network of institutions that have constituted Orientalism's power"--

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780823286393; 9780823286409
    RVK Categories: IH 1481
    Edition: First edition
    Subjects: Orientalisierende Literatur; Französisch
    Other subjects: Orientalism / France; Orientalism in literature; Decadence in literature; Decadence (Literary movement) / France; Decadence in literature; Decadence (Literary movement); Orientalism; Orientalism in literature; France
    Scope: vii, 220 Seiten
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    Introduction: Orientalist decadence -- French decadence, Arab awakening : figures of decay in the Nahda -- Al-Shidyaq's decadent carnival -- From Dreyfus in the colony to Céline's anti-Semitic style -- Resurrecting colonial decadence in independent Algeria -- Algerian women and the invention of literary mourning -- Virtual secularization : Abdelwahab Meddeb's "walking cure" and the immigrant body in France -- Conclusion: Toward a contrapuntal double critique of colonial modernity

  3. Décadence fin de siècle
    Published: [2017]; © 2017
    Publisher:  Gallimard, Paris

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  4. Against the grain
    the poetics of non-normative masculinity in Decadent French literature
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, Oxford ; New York

    Introduction: Against the grain -- 'Idées masculines' : the intertextual poetics of masculinity in Joris-Karl Huysmans's À Rebours (1884) -- 'Vers le sabbat' : occult initiation and non-normative masculinity in Jean Lorrain's Monsieur de Phocas... more

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    Introduction: Against the grain -- 'Idées masculines' : the intertextual poetics of masculinity in Joris-Karl Huysmans's À Rebours (1884) -- 'Vers le sabbat' : occult initiation and non-normative masculinity in Jean Lorrain's Monsieur de Phocas (1901) -- Who's on top? : dequeering and requeering Rachilde -- The (im)potency of the pen(is) : Mirbeau's masculine author(ity) in Le Calvaire (1886) -- Conclusion: Decadent masculinities "Is it really a man's world? At a time when masculinity is being challenged, this book explores the links between reading and writing, and how they have historically been associated with masculine privilege. This book explores the representation of masculinity as a literary concept in Decadent literature by Huysmans, Lorrain, Rachilde, and Mirbeau to demonstrate how the movement both appropriated and subverted patriarchal assumptions surrounding reading and writing. The author takes a broad approach towards masculinity and its discontents by uncovering unlikely pretenders to the throne - witches, dandies, and cuckolds - that destabilised its validity. By positioning the study against the backdrop of the fin-de-siècle 'crisis' of masculinity, the book undermines previously held assertions about the nature of masculinity then and now, opening up fresh ground for the appraisal and analysis of gender in French studies and beyond"--

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781800791756
    Series: Romanticism and after in France ; volume 30
    Subjects: French fiction / 19th century / History and criticism; Masculinity in literature; Sex role in literature; Books and reading in literature; Decadence (Literary movement) / France; Books and reading / France / History / 19th century; Literature and society / France / History / 19th century
    Scope: xi, 257 Seiten
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    Includes bibliographical references and index