Decadent Subjects - The Idea of Decadence in Art, Literature, Philosophy, Culture of Fin

Informationen zum Autor Charles Bernheimer is cochair of the program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. His books include Flaubert and Kafka: Studies in Psychopoetic Structure and Figures of Ill Repute: Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France. Klappentext Through careful analysis of the literature, art, and music of the fin de siècle including a riveting discussion of the many faces of Salome, Bernheimer leaves us with a fascinating and multidimensional look at decadence, all the more important as we emerge from our own fin de siècle. Zusammenfassung Through careful analysis of the literature! art! and music of the fin de siecle including a riveting discussion of the many faces of Salome! Bernheimer leaves us with a fascinating and multidimensional look at decadence! all the more important as we emerge from our own fin de siecle.

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• Authors: Charles Bernheimer
• Assisted by: T Jefferson Kline (Editor), T. Jefferson Kline (Editor), T. Jefferson (Boston University) Kline (Editor), Naomi Schor (Editor), Naomi (Benjamin F. Barge Professor of French Schor (Editor)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.08.2002
• EAN: 9780801867408
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-6740-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society; Parallax; Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society; Parallax: Re-Visions of Cultur; Parallax
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; History of Ideas, Europe, The arts: general issues, ART / General, HISTORY / Social History, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, The arts: general topics