Beginning At the End - Decadence, Modernism, and Postcolonial Poetry

Informationen zum Autor Robert Stilling is Assistant Professor of English at Florida State University. Klappentext Robert Stilling shows how aestheticism¿s decadence became a key idea in postcolonial thought, describing the failures of revolutionary nationalism and asserting cosmopolitanism in poetry and art. Breaking down the boundaries around decadent literature, he takes it outside Europe and emphasizes the global reach of its imaginative transgressions. Zusammenfassung Robert Stilling shows how aestheticism’s decadence became a key idea in postcolonial thought, describing the failures of revolutionary nationalism and asserting cosmopolitanism in poetry and art. Breaking down the boundaries around decadent literature, he takes it outside Europe and emphasizes the global reach of its imaginative transgressions.

Product details

• Authors: Stilling, Robert Stilling
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.06.2018
• EAN: 9780674984431
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98443-1
• No. of pages: 392
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Poetry anthologies (various poets), Literary studies: poetry and poets