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“I Think it is a Rotten Play”: New Document on George S. Viereck’s Play Vampire and Novel The House of the Vampire [PDF]
The novel by George Sylvester Viereck (1884–1962) The House of the Vampire (1907) has become one of the most striking phenomena of American decadent literature and continues to attract the attention of literary scholars.
Vassili E. Molodiakov
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This article contributes to the understanding of relations between occulture and Decadence in Finnish art at the turn of the twentieth century, focussing on occulture and Decadence in the works of the Finnish artist Oscar Parviainen (1880–1938).
Mikko Välimäki
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Critics generally have viewed D. H. Lawrence’s novel The Lost Girl (1920) as a vexing fictional work that, with its resemblance to the fiction of Arnold Bennett and Compton Mackenzie, seems to eschew the modernist experiment that Lawrence had boldly ...
Richard A. Kaye
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Ruth is one of the first examples of literary decadence in Estonian literature, a manifestation of the discourse of decadence that dominated the fin-de-siècle period.
Mirjam Hinrikus
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Decline and decadence in Iraq and Syria after the age of Avicenna? : ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī (1162–1231) between myth and history [PDF]
‘Abd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī’s (d. 1231) work Book of the Two Pieces of Advice (Kitāb al Nasīḥatayn) challenges the idea that Islamic medicine declined after the twelfth century AD.
Joosse, Nanne Pieter George +1 more
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Degeneracy of Decadent Dyons [PDF]
A quarter-BPS dyon in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory is generically `decadent' in that it is stable only in some regions of the moduli space and decays on submanifolds in the moduli space.
A. Dabholkar +28 more
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Minding Literature’s Business: Cultivating a Sense of Evanescence Within Political Affairs [PDF]
The paper investigates the relationship between political oratory and literature in Romania during the second part of the 19th century. Extending the theories of Jacques Rancière, Fredric Jameson, Slavoj Žižec, and Leonidas Donskis, I analyze the ...
Patraș, Roxana
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The concept of language decadence can be interpreted in different ways: as mixing of languages, language deterioration, or language loss. As linguists are aware, all these manifestations commonly attributed to so-called language decadence are actually ...
Marina Foschi Albert
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Da Décadence à Grande Saúde: uma ponte para o além-do-homem nietzschiano
O presente artigo faz uma discussão acerca da décadence e da grande saúde, temáticas frequentemente presentes na filosofia de Nietzsche, onde décadence aparece como sinónimo de doença e em oposição ao que ele denominou de “a grande saúde''.
JOSÉ ANTONIO SOUZA ALMADA +1 more
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Ibn Khaldun’ s theory on the role of nervousness and religion in Islamic civilization [PDF]
This article examines Ibn Khaldoun's view on the influence of Islam and religion on the formation and decline of Islamic civilization. Considering that the religion of Islam emerged in the bed of Arab nervousness Therefore, this question is raised that ...
Yusof Jafarzadeh
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