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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Decadent"”.
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Masochism and Decadent literature: Jean Lorrain and Joséphin Péladan
This study explores the masochistic aspects of Decadent literature, which to date have been relatively neglected, or have received only sporadic attention as merely the passive forms of sadism, or sadomasochism (Mario Praz). As Jennifer Birkett suggests, Decadent sensibility and sexuality have …
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Against the grain: the poetics of non-normative masculinity in decadent french literature
… of masculinity as a literary concept in Decadent literature by Jean Lorrain (Monsieur de Phocas), Rachilde (Monsieur Vénus and La Tour d’amour), and Octave Mirbeau (Le Calvaire), in order to demonstrate how the Decadent movement both appropriated and subverted patriarchal assumptions …
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Decadent Sociability and Material Culture at the Fin de Siècle: 'A Genius for Friendship'
… of sociability and on materiality situates decadent interactions within the physical world. Rather than treating the decadents as isolated individualists who rejected communality, as most critical readings of decadence suggest, the thesis argues that individual performances co-existed within …
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Redeeming “decadent” Europe: Vicarious reparation in the catholic revival in Germany and France (1870-1945)
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms
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A Reappraisal of Decadence in John Ford's Dramatic Works
… whose work bear these marks are usually termed decadent. John Ford (1586- c.1639), whose work seems especially lacking in moral stability, is considered by many scholars as the most decadent dramatist of the period.
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Seeing the Spell: Baroque, Decadence, and a Cinema of Digital-Animated Liberation
… so. The dissertations invocation of Baroque and Decadent aesthetics provides a conceptual apparatus for describing this contemporary cinematic idiom of digitized blockbuster spectacle. It identifies a Baroque aesthetic in such stylistic traits as verticality, profusion, and the sublime, as well …
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Chaucerian imperfections: The other and the turbulant self
… It is the character’s incomplete, distorted, or decadent command of a given virtue, rather than the viritself, that makes it imperfect. Consisting of three chapters, the thesis examines Chaucer’s imperfection of things idealized within two medieval spaces: a) the ecclesiastical institution of …
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G.-Albert Aurier, critic and theorist of Symbolist art
… with emphasis on his involvement in the Decadent phase of literary Symbolism, as it relates to the development of his particular tastes in art. While Aurier's theory is Symbolist, and therefore self-consciously modern, it is here analyzed from a traditional point of view, in order to …
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Aleksej Konstantinovic Tolstoj and Russian Romanticism
… oeuvre, its ties to Voltairianism and late, decadent Classicism, places it historically within that of the Puskin Pleiad. The writer's quest for God presents a significant parallel to the works of Dostoevskij and those of the poet's cousin, L. N. Tolstoj. The poet's militant mystical …
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Léon Bloy: Martyr or Madman?
… furious and gracious, polemical and amicable, decadent and austere — so attractive, and why the circle that developed around him proved so formative for an extraordinary collection of converts, among whom numbered one of the twentieth century’s most famous philosophers, Jacques Maritain. I …
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A supreme fire of thought and spirit : modernist patterns of cultural renewal in First World War Britain
… their own idiosyncratic confrontation with a decadent modernity during the war. This analysis examines both their poetry and their wider attitudes and responses to the conflagration. The study concludes by arguing that modernist cultural production in Britain chimed with wider European …
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Warring Discourses in The Picture of Dorian Gray
… exists a fundamental incompatibility between Decadent and Catholic thought. The purpose of this thesis is to explore this incompatibility in all of its complexity. This thesis utilizes those works that have influenced Wilde, particularly the writings of Huysmans and Pater. Furthermore, it …
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Herodotus and the birth of freedom.
… that the Persian monarchy was nothing but a decadent tyranny—I contend that the History reflects the reality of Persian freedom as attested to by ancient cuneiform texts and that Herodotus offers a hitherto unrecognized positive political theory of kingship. In the latter half of this …
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Severed texts : aspects of aestheticization in Roland Barthes’ post-structural writings
… The opening chapter discusses aestheticizing and decadent discourses in nineteenth century French and English literary traditions, identifies relevant intertexts, and proposes a set of key themes in aestheticizing discourses--the rejection of the natural, the quest for separation and mediation …
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Aristocrats into Modernity: French Émigrés and the Refashioning of Noble Identities
… revolutionary representation of the émigré as a decadent, treasonous aristocrat. This cultural battle continued after their return to France under the Napoleonic Regime and Restoration when they penned several memoirs. The revolutionary upheavals led to the development of a heightened historical …
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Self-fashioning, Consumption, and <em>Japonisme</em>: The Power of Collecting in Tissot’s <em>Jeunes Femmes Regardant des Objets Japonais</em>, 1869
… the portrayal of the collectible objects and the decadent interior as evidence of bourgeois self-fashioning and the decorous display and consumption concomitant with Second Empire Paris. This thesis considers the history of collecting in Second Empire Paris; in particular, the early impact of …
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The Evolution of Yeats's Dance Imagery: The Body, Gender, and Nationalism
… read Yeats's dance emblems in light of symbolist-decadent portrayals of Salome has led to exaggerated charges of misogyny, and to neglect of these emblems' relationship to the poet's nationalism. Drawing on body criticism, dance theory, and postcolonialism, this project rereads the politics that …
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The Nature of Law and Legality in the Byzantine Canonical Collections 381-883
… dismiss Byzantine canon law as "primitive" or "decadent". If approached more sympathetically, however, this strange legal world can be read as constituting a surprisingly coherent and rich legal system that is characterized by 1) a deep investment in embedding itself in broader value-narratives; …
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Effects of Cheatgrass Control on Wyoming Big Sagebrush in Southeastern Utah
… characterized by predominately mature to decadent stands of sagebrush with few perennial grasses and forbs. Sagebrush seedlings and perennial grasses compete for limited resources with annual grasses and forbs. To determine the affects of cheatgrass control on sagebrush growth and …
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