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  1. The Idea of Decadence in French Literature, 1830-1900
    Author: Carter, A.E.
    Published: [2017]; © 1978
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    The cult of decadence is usually dismissed as an eccentricity of French literature, a final twitter of Romantic neurosis, convulsing the lunatic fringe of letters during the last third of the nineteenth century. However, the nineteenth century's... more

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    The cult of decadence is usually dismissed as an eccentricity of French literature, a final twitter of Romantic neurosis, convulsing the lunatic fringe of letters during the last third of the nineteenth century. However, the nineteenth century's preoccupation with decadence provides us with a key to the secret places of its thought, to all the obscure passages and backstairs behind the triumphant façade. Between 1814 and 1914, there was no sense of disaster, no tragic sense. Civilization had become a habit, a side product of political constitutions and applied science. History was viewed pragmatically: of what use were such traditional symbols as throne and altar? Both are essentially propitiatory, evidence of man's uneasy knowledge that power is dangerous and destiny implacable. And both seemed anachronisms in a world where (it was thought) human reason had solved or would solve all the old problems. The theory of decadence is very largely a protest against this comfortable belief. Had the decadents not written, we should hardly suspect that the nineteenth century suffered from the same doubts and hesitations as all other ages, before and since

     
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  2. Plant of a strange vine
    "Oratio Corrupta" and the poetics of Senecan tragedy
    Author: Sklenář, Robert
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    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin ; Boston

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  3. Dekadentismus im Werk von Sibylle Berg und Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
    Author: Sobótka, Brygida
    Published: 2017

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    Language: German
    Media type: Article (edited volume)
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: Deutsch-polnische Beziehungen in Kultur und Literatur ; Bd. 9. / Lech Kolago, Katarzyna Grzywka, Robert Małecki, Małgorzata Kosacka (Hg.); Warszawa : Instytut Germanistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2017; (2017), Seite 91-97; 234 Seiten, 10 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln, Illustrationen

    Subjects: Dekadenz <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Berg, Sibylle (1962-); Witkiewicz, Stanisław Ignacy (1885-1939)
  4. Plant of a Strange Vine
    Oratio Corrupta and the Poetics of Senecan Tragedy
    Author: Sklenár, Robert John
    Published: [2017]
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin ; Walter de Gruyter GmbH

    This book studies Seneca's poetic drama from a novel point of view. Whereas most criticism of Seneca's dramas has tended to focus on their relationship to Stoicism, I approach them from the perspective of Seneca's own theory of literary decadence,... more

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    This book studies Seneca's poetic drama from a novel point of view. Whereas most criticism of Seneca's dramas has tended to focus on their relationship to Stoicism, I approach them from the perspective of Seneca's own theory of literary decadence, which he sets forth in the 114th of his letters to Lucilius. His theory can be summed up as follows: the various forms of stylistic corruption are the result of a straining for effect, which itself reflects a taste for the extreme. A writer or speaker's stylistic vices thus mirror the vices of his character; they also reflect the vices of the time and place in which he lives, since every user of language is conditioned by his environment. What is especially striking about Seneca's discussion is that a number of the vices he lists – hyperbole, disruption of natural word order, excessive metaphor – are notable features of the poetic style of his own dramas. I argue for a rehabilitation of the 'decadent' style of Seneca's tragedies: in Seneca's hands, this style is a precise diagnostic tool for revealing the self-destructive irrationality that governs not only the individual, but also his society and the entire universe.

     
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    ISBN: 9783110519747
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    RVK Categories: FX 210705
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    Series: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; 363
    Subjects: Dekadenz; Literaturtheorie
    Other subjects: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Philosophus (65): Oedipus; Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Philosophus (65): Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
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  5. Plant of a strange vine
    "Oratio corrupta" and the poetics of Senecan tragedy
    Author: Sklenář, Robert
    Published: [2017]; © 2017
    Publisher:  de Gruyter, Berlin

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    ISBN: 9783110517729; 3110517728
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    Series: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; Band 363
    Subjects: Dekadenz; Literaturtheorie
    Other subjects: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Philosophus (65): Oedipus; Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Philosophus (65): Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
    Scope: 98 Seiten, 23 cm
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  6. Plant of a Strange Vine
    >Oratio Corrupta< and the Poetics of Senecan Tragedy
    Author: Sklenár, Robert John
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston ; ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    The volumes published in the series "Beiträge zur Altertumskunde" comprise monographs, collective volumes, editions, translations and commentaries on various topics from the fields of Greek and Latin Philology, Ancient History, Archeology, Ancient... more

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    The volumes published in the series "Beiträge zur Altertumskunde" comprise monographs, collective volumes, editions, translations and commentaries on various topics from the fields of Greek and Latin Philology, Ancient History, Archeology, Ancient Philosophy as well as Classical Reception Studies. The series thus offers indispensable research tools for a wide range of disciplines related to Ancient Studies.

     
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    Series: Beiträge Zur Altertumskunde Ser. ; v.363
    Subjects: Dekadenz; Literaturtheorie
    Other subjects: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Philosophus (65): Oedipus; Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Philosophus (65): Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
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  7. Décadence und Visualität in drei Romanen Paul Leppins: Daniel Jesus, Severins Gang in die Finsternis und Blaugast
    Author: Derham, Constanze
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  epubli, Berlin

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    Language: German
    Media type: Dissertation
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    ISBN: 9783745061918; 3745061918
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    Subjects: Roman; Sehen <Motiv>; Dekadenz
    Other subjects: Leppin, Paul
    Scope: viii, 302 Seiten, 24 cm, 623 g
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    Dissertation, Universität Leipzig, 2017
  8. Inḥiṭāṭ – the decline paradigm
    its influence and persistence in the writing of Arab cultural history
    Contributor: Hees, Syrinx von (Publisher)
    Published: [2017]; © 2017
    Publisher:  Ergon Verlag, Würzburg

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    ISBN: 9783956502477; 3956502477
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    Series: Arabische Literatur und Rhetorik – Elfhundert bis Achtzehnhundert (ALEA) ; 2
    Subjects: Arabisch; Literaturgeschichtsschreibung; Kultur; Dekadenz; Literatur; Araber
    Other subjects: Arab Cultural History; Inḥiṭāṭ; decline paradigm
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  9. Décadence und Visualität in drei Romanen Paul Leppins: "Daniel Jesus", "Severins Gang in die Finsternis" und "Blaugast"
    Author: Derham, Constanze
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    Publisher:  epubli, Berlin

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    ISBN: 9783745061918; 3745061918
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    Subjects: Roman; Dekadenz; Sehen <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Leppin, Paul (1878-1945); Décadence; Prag; Tschechien; Böhmen; Literaturwissenschaft; Germanistik; Westslavistik; Bohemistik; Deutschsprachige Prager Literatur; Literarisches Feld
    Scope: viii, 302 Seiten, 24 cm, 623 g
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    Dissertation, Universität Leipzig, 2017
  10. The Idea of Decadence in French Literature, 1830-1900
    Author: Carter, A.E.
    Published: [2017]; © 1978
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    The cult of decadence is usually dismissed as an eccentricity of French literature, a final twitter of Romantic neurosis, convulsing the lunatic fringe of letters during the last third of the nineteenth century. However, the nineteenth century's... more

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    The cult of decadence is usually dismissed as an eccentricity of French literature, a final twitter of Romantic neurosis, convulsing the lunatic fringe of letters during the last third of the nineteenth century. However, the nineteenth century's preoccupation with decadence provides us with a key to the secret places of its thought, to all the obscure passages and backstairs behind the triumphant façade. Between 1814 and 1914, there was no sense of disaster, no tragic sense. Civilization had become a habit, a side product of political constitutions and applied science. History was viewed pragmatically: of what use were such traditional symbols as throne and altar? Both are essentially propitiatory, evidence of man's uneasy knowledge that power is dangerous and destiny implacable. And both seemed anachronisms in a world where (it was thought) human reason had solved or would solve all the old problems. The theory of decadence is very largely a protest against this comfortable belief. Had the decadents not written, we should hardly suspect that the nineteenth century suffered from the same doubts and hesitations as all other ages, before and since

     
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    Subjects: DISCOUNT-B.; Decadence in literature; French literature; Dekadenz <Motiv>; Französisch; Literatur
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  11. "Dekadent und Dekadenz-Kritiker in einem"
    zur narzisstischen Körper-Ästhetik bei Nietzsche und Thomas Mann
    Author: Li, Shuangzhi
    Published: 2017

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    Language: German
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    Parent title: Literaturstraße; Würzburg, 2017; Band 18 (2017), Heft 1, Seite 49-63
    Subjects: Dekadenz <Motiv>; Ästhetik; Körper
    Other subjects: Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844-1900); Mann, Thomas (1875-1955)
  12. Plant of a strange vine
    "Oratio Corrupta" and the poetics of Senecan tragedy
    Author: Sklenář, Robert
    Published: [2017]
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin

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  13. Angenehmes Grauen
    Literaturhistorische Beiträge zur Ästhetik des Schrecklichen im achtzehnten Jahrhundert
    Author: Zelle, Carsten
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Felix Meiner Verlag, Hamburg

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    Language: German
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    ISBN: 9783787330508
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    DDC Categories: 400; 800
    Series: Studien zum 18. Jahrhundert ; 10
    Subjects: Schrecken; Ästhetik; Schrecken <Motiv>; Literatur; Schrecken; Schrecken; Schauerliteratur; Schrecken; Schauerliteratur
    Other subjects: (Produktform)Electronic book text; (BISAC Subject Heading)PHI021000; Fin de Siècle; Aufklärung; Dekadenz; Romantik; Theodizee; Ästhetik; (VLB-WN)9520
    Scope: Online-Ressourcen, 466 Seiten
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  14. Das Paradox der Dekadenz
    der Einzelne und die Masse bei Gabriele D'Annunzio und Hugo von Hofmannsthal
    Author: Perdichizzi, Concetta
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München

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    Contributor: Mehltretter, Florian (Akademischer Betreuer)
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    Media type: Dissertation
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    Subjects: Dekadenz; Paradoxon
    Other subjects: Hofmannsthal, Hugo von (1874-1929); D'Annunzio, Gabriele (1863-1938)
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    Dissertation, München, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2017
  15. Décadence und Visualität in drei Romanen Paul Leppins: Daniel Jesus, Severins Gang in die Finsternis und Blaugast
    Author: Derham, Constanze
    Published: [2017]
    Publisher:  epubli, Berlin

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  16. Symbolismus
    Author: Brodskaja, Natalija V.
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Parkstone International, New York

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  17. Décadence und Visualität in drei Romanen Paul Leppins: "Daniel Jesus, Severins Gang in die Finsternis" und "Blaugast"
    Author: Derham, Constanze
    Published: [2017]
    Publisher:  epubli, Berlin

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    ISBN: 9783745061918; 3745061918
    Subjects: Roman; Dekadenz; Sehen <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Leppin, Paul (1878-1945)
    Scope: viii, 302 Seiten, 24 cm, 623 g
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    Dissertation, Universität Leipzig, 2017
  18. Inḥiṭāṭ – the decline paradigm
    its influence and persistence in the writing of Arab cultural history
    Contributor: Hees, Syrinx von (Publisher)
    Published: [2017]; © 2017
    Publisher:  Ergon Verlag, Würzburg

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
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    ISBN: 9783956502477; 3956502477
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    RVK Categories: EN 2600
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    Edition: 1. Auflage
    Series: Arabische Literatur und Rhetorik – Elfhundert bis Achtzehnhundert (ALEA) ; 2
    Subjects: Arabisch; Literaturgeschichtsschreibung; Kultur; Dekadenz; Literatur; Araber
    Other subjects: Arab Cultural History; Inḥiṭāṭ; decline paradigm
    Scope: 221 Seiten
  19. Décadence und Visualität in drei Romanen Paul Leppins: "Daniel Jesus", "Severins Gang in die Finsternis" und "Blaugast"
    Author: Derham, Constanze
    Published: [2017]
    Publisher:  epubli, Berlin

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin; Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: German
    Media type: Dissertation
    ISBN: 9783745061918; 3745061918
    DDC Categories: 830
    Subjects: Roman; Dekadenz; Sehen <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Leppin, Paul (1878-1945); Décadence; Prag; Tschechien; Böhmen; Literaturwissenschaft; Germanistik; Westslavistik; Bohemistik; Deutschsprachige Prager Literatur; Literarisches Feld
    Scope: viii, 302 Seiten, 24 cm, 623 g
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    Dissertation, Universität Leipzig, 2017
  20. Az android, a kiborg, a dandy, meg a nő - sajátos testreprezentációk a dekadens és a dada fantáziákban
    Author: Földes, Györgyi
    Published: 2017

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    Source: Online Contents Comparative Literature
    Language: Hungarian
    Media type: Article (journal)
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: Helikon; Budapest : Argumentum Kiadó, 1964-; Band 63, Heft 1 (2017), Seite 44-52

    Subjects: Dadaismus; Dekadenz
  21. Plant of a Strange Vine
    Oratio Corrupta and the Poetics of Senecan Tragedy
    Author: Sklenár, Robert John
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin

    This book studies Seneca's poetic drama from a novel point of view. Whereas most criticism of Seneca's dramas has tended to focus on their relationship to Stoicism, I approach them from the perspective of Seneca's own theory of literary decadence,... more

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    This book studies Seneca's poetic drama from a novel point of view. Whereas most criticism of Seneca's dramas has tended to focus on their relationship to Stoicism, I approach them from the perspective of Seneca's own theory of literary decadence, which he sets forth in the 114th of his letters to Lucilius. His theory can be summed up as follows: the various forms of stylistic corruption are the result of a straining for effect, which itself reflects a taste for the extreme. A writer or speaker's stylistic vices thus mirror the vices of his character; they also reflect the vices of the time and place in which he lives, since every user of language is conditioned by his environment. What is especially striking about Seneca's discussion is that a number of the vices he lists - hyperbole, disruption of natural word order, excessive metaphor - are notable features of the poetic style of his own dramas. I argue for a rehabilitation of the 'decadent' style of Seneca's tragedies: in Seneca's hands, this style is a precise diagnostic tool for revealing the self-destructive irrationality that governs not only the individual, but also his society and the entire universe

     
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    ISBN: 9783110519747; 3110519747; 9783110518948; 3110518945; 9783110519754; 3110519755; 9783110517729; 3110517728
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    Series: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; 363
    Subjects: Latin drama (Tragedy); Latin drama (Tragedy); DRAMA ; Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Latin drama (Tragedy); Dekadenz; Literaturtheorie; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Other subjects: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D; Seneca, Lucius Annaeus approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D; Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D); Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D): Tragedies; Seneca, Lucius Annaeus; Seneca, Lucius Annaeus; Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
    Scope: Online Ressource (107 pages)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-98) and index. - In English. - Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Sep 2017)