J. Randvere’s “Ruth” (1909) as an Example of Literary Decadence and the Quintessence of Young Estonia’s (1905–1915) Modern Ideology [PDF]
Interlitteraria, 2015 This article is based on the interpretation of a segment of the reception of J. Randvere’s provocative, short essay-novella “Ruth” (1909), which was written by Johannes Aavik, a well-known Young Estonian and one of the principal modernizers of the ...
Mirjam Hinrikus
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Analytical and Comparative Study of Iran Literary Return and the European Neoclassicism School [PDF]
ادبیات تطبیقی, 2021 1. Introduction There are different opinions about the time in when the idea of Iranian Literary Return movement has emerged. Safaei states that "this great literary movement" raised before the time of Qajar, that is, the time of Karim Khan Zand, and he ...
Aram RAHIMIAN, Ghodratollah Taheri
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Ukrainian Literary Naturalism in the Ideological and Aesthetic Reception of Lesia Ukrainka
Journal of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, 2022 The article deals with the study of the problem of Lesia Ukrainka's reception of the literary phenomenon of naturalism and the philosophy of positivism as its ideological basis. It also studies the way the poetess evaluated and looked at the achievements
Roman Golod
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Pessoa Plural, 2016 Pessoa's Antinous follows a tradition of poems on mythological dying-god figures mourned by their divine lovers, transferring the tropes of that tradition to the Roman emperor Hadrian and his lover, who had been appropriated by fin-de-siècle literary ...
Reed, J. D.
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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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Minding Literature’s Business: Cultivating a Sense of Evanescence Within Political Affairs [PDF]
, 2015 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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La décadence à la fin du XIXe siècle espagnol: une esthétique de la provocation
Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 2012 Talking about Decadence in fin-de-siècle Hispanic literature involves delving into the great movement of modernism, and notably one of its expressions, literary bohemianism. In what way(s) do these concepts both make use of and take part in an aesthetic
Xavier Escudero
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A Urals Knight of Symbolism: The Case of Sergey V. Vinogradov
Филологический класс, 2022 Modernism and modernist tendencies in the creative activity of local authors is one of the understudied areas in the Urals literature history at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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The Importance of Being Long Dead: Ancient Characters and Modern Desire in Fernando Pessoa and C.P. Cavafy [PDF]
Pessoa Plural, 2019 Pessoa and Cavafy are key figures in European Modernism. The fact that both have consistently drawn on the classical past to write about eroticism is a key theme in their work and an overlooked connection.
Faia, Tatiana
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L’Afrique à rebours: la décadence dans un corpus de littérature Togolaise
Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 2012 During the past fifteen years, the West African country of Togo has witnessed the emergence of a new generation of writers - a third generation since independence from colonisation - working in the French language.
Ozouf Sénamin Amedegnato
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