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The Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 56, Issue 2, Page 356-373, April 2023., 2023 Abstract “Human or Puppet?” A once popular, now forgotten performance routine explored this question on the popular stage. Concentrating on rare historical materials, this paper uncovers how “Human or Puppet?” performances looked like and how they built on and added to the early twentieth‐century cultural discourse, and trope, of the human machine ...
Anna‐Sophie Jürgens
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Ruin lust in George Gissing's Veranilda
Literature Compass, Volume 19, Issue 3-4, April 2022., 2022 Abstract Ruinenlust (‘ruin lust’) or ruin aesthetics is a prominent feature of George Gissing's unfinished historical novel, Veranilda (1904), which is set in sixth‐century Italy and contains many memorable images of ruins. Drawing on the work of Georg Simmel, Rose Macaulay, Brian Dillon, and others, this article argues that, by examining these images ...
Gareth A. Reeves
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Joris Karl Huysmans jako kritik umění a jeho pražské odezvy
Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philosophica et Historica, 2017 This text focuses on Joris-Karl Huysmans as an art critic and on his influence on the Czech environment. As during his lifetime, Huysmans’s critical work as well as his personal life underwent significant transformations, his work found favorable ...
Tomáš Kolich
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Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 2012 Although Joris-Karl Huysmans is mostly known for his famous novel À Rebours (1884), his first steps as a writer were made in art criticism, with an article published in La Revue mensuelle about the landscape painters at the Exposition Universelle that ...
Aude Jeannerod
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Tidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap, 2023 “Embodied Meaning. Materiality, Representation and Money in La Peau de Chagrin, À rebours and Le Jardin des supplices” This article presents readings of three French novels from the nineteenth century, namely Balzac's La Peau de chagrin, Huysmans' À ...
Signe Gammelgaard
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Literator, 1993 The first motivation for reading Karel Schoeman’s novel ’n Ander land within the framework of late nineteenth century Western European decadcnt literature is the strong resemblance between Schoeman's character Versluis and Des Esseintes, main character ...
M. Grobbelaar, H. Roos
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Du “monstre-humain” au “monstre-objet” : l’évolution du monstre (in)visible dans Notre-Dame de Paris et À rebours [PDF]
Convergences Francophones, 2018 Au XIXᵉ siècle en France, les monstres sont plus que visibles ; ils occupent le devant de la scène. Ils sont présents dans des domaines aussi divers que la science (avec la tératologie —la première “science” des monstres), la politique, où se dessinent ...
Jade Patterson
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, 2003 Marc SMEETS: Images de Joris-Karl Huysmans - Introduction Robert ZIEGLER : Marthe ou l'accouplement Christian BERG : Bordel ou caboulot ? Huysmans et le mysticisme des Riddecks Anne LARUE : A Rebours, roman de la chute acediaste Julia PRZYBOS : En Rade, ou Huysmans entre creation de procreation Constanze BAETHGE : La-Bas : espace de l'impossible. Quand
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Joris-Karl Huysmans, À rebours [PDF]
Studi Francesi, 2020 Questa preziosa edizione di A rebours, realizzata con la partecipazione del Musee d’Orsay, si presenta anzitutto come un volume d’arte, intessuto di una ricchissima e variegata iconografia: numerose fotografie d’epoca, riproduzioni di litografie e illustrazioni di opere letterarie fra cui progetti di frontespizio – due per Les Fleurs du mal (e un ...
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Dos lecturas antimodernas de Platón en el siglo XIX: Joseph De Maistre y Joris-Karl Huysmans
Circe de Clásicos y Modernos, 2023 El presente artículo se propone cotejar dos lecturas antimodernas de Platón y la tradición platónica, la de Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821) y la de Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907) que resultan a la vez complementarias e inversas.
Mariano Sverdloff
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