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Not enough Baroque’, Review of: Helen Hills (Hg.), Rethinking the Baroque, Farnham, Ashgate 2011. [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2022
Once, when questioned about the originality of Umberto Eco’s Il nome della rosa (1980), Richard Krautheimer gave one of his rare and atypically acerbic replies: “you obviously haven’t read much Sherlock Holmes”.
Andrew Hopkins
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Iranian Intellectuals and Identity in the Mirror of Crisis [PDF]

Taḥqīqāt-i Farhangī-i Īrān, 2010
The search for identity type in the thought of Iranian intellectuals necessitated dealing with this question: what kinds of factors have affected the Iranian intellectuals’ opinions on identity?
Mohammad Bagher Khoramshad, Ebrahim Sarparast Sadat   +1 more
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The Familial Grotesque in the Poetry of Shirley Geok-lin Lim [PDF]

, 2019
Framing the representation of the family in Shirley Lim’s poetry against the concept of the grotesque, this essay aims to demonstrate how the aesthetic category is arguably enlisted as a symbol referring to the trope – or more accurately, with ...
Ng, Andrew Hock Soon
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Contemporary Icarus: Gustav von Aschenbach’s Journey towards the Sun

Czytanie Literatury, 2020
The point of departure for the reflections contained in this article is the motif of the sun in Tomasz Mann’s Death in Venice. Analysing the presence of the sun in the work turns out to be fruitful for distinguishing and connecting several symbolic ...
Anna Sieradzan
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The Image of the City in the Novels of Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic

Славянский мир в третьем тысячелетии, 2022
Fin-de-Siècle Europe appears in the prose of the Czech poet and writer Jiři Karasek from Lvovice (1871–1951) as a mystical space full of nostalgia and claustrophobia, which force the characters to experience the hereditary involvement of history. This is,
Alexey Kolianov
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On the biography of Vladimir Gippius [PDF]

Литературный факт, 2020
The paper provides archival and little-known materials that extend the information on the early period of Vladimir Gippius’ biography. In letters to his acquaintance, Matilda Menzel, he shares his thoughts on A.M.
Yulia Rykunina
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Dekadents kui ambivalentside esteetika. Segunemised ja sünteesid

Keel ja Kirjandus
This article defines decadence as the aesthetics of ambivalences, drawing on Charles Baudelaire’s poem “A Carcass” (Une charogne), where decadence signifies both decline and deterioration, as well as rising, transition, and renewal.
Mirjam Hinrikus, Jaan Undusk
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‘A sort of breviary’: Arthur Symons, J. K. Huysmans and British Decadence

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2019
Arthur Symons’s description of J. K. Huysmans’s À rebours as ‘the breviary of decadence’ is widely cited by critics. It has had a significant influence on our understanding of Huysmans and upon histories of the Decadent movement more generally.
Matthew Creasy
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Review of Angela Carter and Decadence: Critical Fictions/Fictional Critiques by Maggie Tonkin [PDF]

, 2012
Review of Angela Carter and Decadence: Critical Fictions/Fictional Critiques by Maggie ...
Osborn, Jennifer
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Translating Decadence

Lea
Building on the assumptions that decadence is a complex and transnational phenomenon, this volume proposes fresh understandings of the theory and practice of translation.
Bénédicte Coste, Jane Desmarais
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