Decadence in literature and intellectual debate since 1945
Diemo Landgraf (Editor)
"In the field of literary and cultural studies, the understanding of decadence is usually confined to aesthetic phenomena from Baudelaire to the European fin-de-siècle. The present interdisciplinary anthology with contributions by Canadian, German, Italian, and Spanish scholars aims to bridge the gap between decadence as it is traditionally understood in literary and cultural studies and its relevance to current phenomena. The different chapters focus on historical and philosophical perspectives, discussions in the fields of cultural and language politics, literary texts, and movies from Europe and America since 1945"-- Provided by publisher
Print Book, English, 2014
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Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2014
xi, 232 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9781137431011, 1137431016
880418868
PART I: HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES
1. On the Notion of Decadence in the FRG and France after 1945
with Examples by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Botho Strauss, and Richard Millet / Diemo Landgraf
2. 'In the very quick of the nightmare': Decadence and Mystics of Wilderness in Henry Miller's Cultural Criticism of Modernity / Mario Bosincu
3. The Function of Decadence and Ascendance in Analytic Philosophy / Jens Lemanski and Konstantin Alogas
4. Progress and Decadence
Poststructuralism as Progressivism; Gerald Hoffleit
PART II: DECADENCE AND THE POLITICS OF CULTURE AND LANGUAGE
5. The Concept of Decadence as Ideological and Law Enforcement Category in the GDR / Torben Ibs
6. 'Joual en stock'
The Controversial Issue of Language Quality and Autochthonous Standardization in Quebec / Claus D. Pusch
PART III: LITERARY AND FILM STUDIES
7. Michelangelo Antonioni's Early 'Trilogy of Decadence': L'avventura (1960), La notte (1961), L'eclisse (1962) / Jakob Willis
8. Houellebecq's Fin-de-Siècle: Crisis of Society, Crisis of the Novel
Thematic and Poetological Intertextuality between Michel Houellebecq and Joris-Karl Huysmans / Betül Dilmac
9. The Shadow of Decadence: The Latin American Boom and the Taboo of the Spanish Novel of the Democratic Period / Pablo Sánchez
10. Exile and Writing: Alfredo Bryce Echenique and the Decadence of the Myth of Paris / Blanca Navarro Pardiñas
11. Tradition, (post) modernity, and decadence in Vargas Llosa's Lituma en los Andes and Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto / Diemo Landgraf