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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Decadence"”.
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The aesthetics of decadence in German theater.
The aesthetics of decadence in German theater.
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A Reappraisal of Decadence in John Ford's Dramatic Works
Soon after Shakespeare's retirement from the theatre a period of retrogression fell upon the English drama. While it has been assumed by many that the closing of the theatres by the Puritans in 1642 marked the end of drama as it had been gloriously created and shaped by the Elizabethans, the death …
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Home Entertainments and Theatre: Metaphors of Decadence and Blurred Reality
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Seeing the Spell: Baroque, Decadence, and a Cinema of Digital-Animated Liberation
… Baroque and nineteenth-century Decadence in seeking to formulate an analytical vocabulary for the aesthetics of digitally-animated spectacle in contemporary cinema. The dissertation seeks to critique binary antinomies of narrative vs. spectacle, and instead propose a concept of …
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Decadent Sociability and Material Culture at the Fin de Siècle: 'A Genius for Friendship'
This thesis re-evaluates decadence by investigating the relationship that emerged between sociability and material culture at the fin de siècle. Its focus on the mechanisms of sociability and on materiality situates decadent interactions within the physical world. Rather than treating the decadents …
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Ezra Pound's City: The Total Light Process
… however, with a contempt he felt for the decadence visible in Venice, To Pound the decadence symbolized a decline in Western culture.. As he gazed at the physical beauty of the Venetian art forms, he yearned to find a modern city which preserved tradition in the arts and encouraged new art …
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The Poetics of Emerson: An Emersonian Adaptation of Platonic Idealism
… the most efficacious panacea for the prevalent decadence of the poetic art and craft as well as for their enjoyment by the discriminating lovers of poetry. Exalted though the idea of his universal "Poet" may he, the genuine inspiration and inherent idealism which Emerson offers are significant …
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Masochism and Decadent literature: Jean Lorrain and Joséphin Péladan
… with current literary-critical scholarship in Decadence (Emily Apter, Charles Bernheimer, Bram Dijkstra and Rita Felski), and in Sacher-Masoch (Nick Mansfield, John K. Noyes, and Anita Phillips), and his influence on Decadent writers.
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Public sexuality: a contemporary history of gay images and identity
… one site of gay identity performances: Southern Decadence in New Orleans, the murder of Matthew Shepard, and the decriminalization of sodomy. At each site, I examine the event, the various identities presented, and the tensions and erasures that result from the specific identity performances. In …
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Science and Natural Philosophy in the Poetry of Heinrich von Meissen (Frauenlob)
… academic obscurity and accusations of mannerist decadence, and now recognizes Frauenlob’s unique place in German literary history, as an author whose work is distinctly dialogic, polysemous, and rationally accessible. This dissertation expands on these conclusions through an analysis of the …
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An enquiry into Nicolai Hartmann's appreciation of Nietzsche's axiology
… of "Christo-European morals" or the spiritual decadence of the West; and to show why Hartmann made so much of Nietzsche's supra-moral philosophy of Becoming the philosophy "beyond good and evil".
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“Pleasant Episodes” of Gastronomy: Food and Drink in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s <em>The Beautiful and Damned</em>
… quest to assert and cling to his own brand of decadence, which is tragically distinct from that of his wife Gloria's.
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A supreme fire of thought and spirit : modernist patterns of cultural renewal in First World War Britain
… with an intetpretation of modernity as decadence. The first three chapters of the study explore this phenomenon through a wide-ranging textual recovery of various wartime debates published in the avant-garde journal The New Age. The first chapter offers a survey of the philosophical and …
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Desolation Road
… as well as, graphic depictions of institutional decadence and decay, the haunting lyrics and rhythmic strum-pattern of Dylan’s composition echo the shattered world of Elliot’s Wasteland while incorporating the language and sound of the folk revival. Structurally, Desolation Road reinterprets …
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Paranoia, power and male identity in John Buchan's Literary War
… cultural fears (particularly fears relating to decadence and degeneration) are projected outwards to return in the romantic guise of hostile foreigners intent on destroying England, and in which the image of the ‘strong’ masculine self is promoted as a means of protecting the nation. Chapter One …
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Red-headed Woodpecker Habitat Selection and Breeding Ecology on Fort Drum Military Installation, New York
… forest stands with greater overall stand decadence (decay) and shorter woody understory height. My results suggest that at coarse spatial scales (i.e., forest stands or habitat fragments) red-headed woodpecker selection of breeding habitats can be influenced by overall stand decadence and …
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Envisioning Women Writers: Female Authorship and the Cultures of Publishing and Translation in Early 20th Century Japan
… discourses of Naturalism, the New Woman, and decadence in the 1910s. As the New Woman became a social phenomenon alongside ongoing debates about women's issues, feminist women inaugurated the journal Seitô (Bluestocking, 1911-16) as a venue for women's literature. While this category renders …
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Warring Discourses in The Picture of Dorian Gray
… interplay between the discourses of ethics and Decadence as applied to the artistic life. Wilde's attraction to Catholicism also plays a prominent role in his treatment of characters. Although the author's intent remains ambiguous, the course of the novel leads one to the conclusion that there …
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