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‘Subtle Instrument of Music’: Translating the Sound and Appearance of Decadence in Wilde’s Salomé

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2017
Oscar Wilde’s Salomé was an adventure in decadence, decapitation, and the French language. Wilde called the play his ‘first venture to use for art that subtle instrument of music, the French tongue’ (Hart-Davis 331).
Erin Dunbar
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Eesti nõukogude loojak

Keel ja Kirjandus
This essay explores the emergence and evolution of a literary and artistic trend in Soviet Estonia from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. During this period, young philologists, poets, artists and essayists re-discovered the decadence of the fin-de ...
Märt Väljataga
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Nordic Modernism for Beginners

Humanities, 2018
This essay proposes a narrative of the Nordic countries’ relationship to modernism and other major literary trends of the late 19th and 20th centuries, that situates them in conjunction with the rest of Europe.
Susan C. Brantly
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Sissejuhatus: dekadentsi erinumbrite triloogia ja projekti raamistik / Introduction: A Three-Part Special-Issue Series on Decadence and the Project’s Framework

Methis: Studia Humaniora Estonica
Teesid: Käesolev sissejuhatus raamistab dekadentsi-teemaliste erinumbrite triloogia kolmandat osa, mis on välja kasvanud uurimisprojektist „Tsiviliseeritud rahvuse teke: dekadents kui üleminek 1905–1940“.
Mirjam Hinrikus, Leo Luks, Aare Pilv
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Black Feathers and Poison Wine Decadent Aesthetics in Davíð Stefánsson’s Poetry

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Davíð Stefánsson (1895-1964) is a poet whose work marks a turning point in early twentieth-century Icelandic literature. This essay offers five new English translations from his first collection Black Feathers (Svartar Fjaðrir,1919) and introduces a new ...
Karólína Rós Ólafsdóttir
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The Influence of Arthur Rimbaud on Dai Wang Shu and Nakahara Chūya’s Poetry—The Construction of their Poetic Decadent World

IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship, 2017
This article argues both Dai Wang-shu (戴望舒, 1905–1950) and Nakahara Chūya (中原中也, 1907–1937), as readers of French symbolist Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891)’s poetry, adopted similar stylistic elements because the three of them were trapped in times of ...
James Kin-Pong Au
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The PCSK9 decade [PDF]

Journal of Lipid Research, 2012
PCSK9 proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type (PCSK9) is a crucial protein in LDL cholesterol (LDL-C) metabolism by virtue of its pivotal role in the degradation of the LDL receptor. In recent years, both in vitro and in vivo studies have greatly supplemented our understanding of the (patho)physiological role of PCSK9 in human biology.
Gilles Lambert, Barbara Sjouke, Benjamin Choque, John J.P. Kastelein, G. Kees Hovingh   +4 more
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Global Neo-Decadence, Postcolonialism, and the Hyper-Digital Hysterical Sublime of Late Capitalism

Humanities
This article examines some postcolonial dimensions of a global literary movement in the twenty-first century called Neo-Decadence. It begins by highlighting the artistic and political preoccupations of the movement within the context of the century’s ...
Cherrie Kwok
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ANDROGYNOUS TRAVEL FROM MIRE TO VIS [PDF]

Hum, 2012
In Croatian literature the term curser, destroyer of social and literary cannons is imminent for Janko Polić Kamov. That is the artist who could not cope with narrow-minded petty-bourgeois society which was being made for centuries by the “male ...
Sanja Knežević
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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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