The Semiotics of Decadence
Author : Randall S. Shattuck
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 38,57 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Americans
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Author : Randall S. Shattuck
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 38,57 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Americans
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Author : Donald Burton Kuspit
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 23,68 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Art
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Author : David Weir
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 11,76 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
The cultural phenomenon known as "decadence" has often been viewed as an ephemeral artistic vogue that fluorished briefly in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe. This study makes the case for decadence as a literary movement in its own right, based on a set of aesthetic principles that formed a transitional link between romanticism and modernism. Understood in this developmental context, decadence represents the aesthetic substratum of a wide range of fin-de-siecle literary schools, including naturalism, realism, Parnassianism, aestheticism, and symbolism. As an impulse toward modernism, it prefigures the thematic, structural, and stylistic concerns of later literature. David Weir demonstrates his thesis by analyzing a number of French, English, Italian, and American novels, each associated with some specific decadent literary tendency. The book concludes by arguing that the decadent sensibility persists in popular culture and contemporary theory, with multiculturalism and postmodernism representing its most current manifestations.
Author : James Brusseau
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 29,17 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780739118085
In Decadence of the French Nietzsche author James Brusseau describes how and why French Nietzscheanism is contorting into decadence where philosophy is dedicated to the intensification of thought and the degradation of stolid truth.
Author : Jacques Fontanille
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,9 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780820486192
Original Scholarly Monograph
Author : Thomas A. Sebeok
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 33,71 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1475702051
Although semiotics has, in one guise or another, ftourished uninterruptedly since pre Socratic times in the West, and important semiotic themes have emerged and devel oped independently in both the Brahmanie and Buddhistic traditions, semiotics as an organized undertaking began to 100m only in the 1960s. Workshops materialized, with a perhaps surprising spontaneity, over much ofEurope-Eastern and Western and in North America. Thereafter, others quickly surfaced almost everywhere over the litera te globe. Different places strategically allied themselves with different lega eies, but all had a common thrust: to aim at a general theory of signs, by way of a description of different sign systems, their comparative analysis, and their classifi cation. More or less permanent confederations were forged with the most diverse academic disciplines, and amazingly varied frameworks were devised-suited to the needs of the times and the sites-to carry the work of consolidation forward. Bit by bit, mutually supportive international networks were put together. Today, it can truly be asserted that semiotics has become a global enterprise. This, of course, is far from saying that the map is uniform or even that world-wide homogeneity is in the least desirable. While our conjoint ultimate goal remains steadily in focus, the multiplicity of avenues available for its realization is inherent in the advent ure of the search itself.
Author : Fusheng Wu
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 22,26 MB
Release : 1998-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791437520
A reconsideration of Chinese decadent (tuifei) poetry which argues that this poetry is not a marginal trend but rather a vital part of the Chinese literary tradition.
Author : Khaled Besbes
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 39,18 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1581129556
Semiotics is an interdisciplinary field of research and Beckett s theatre is one which engages a large spectrum of subjects and concerns that touch upon multiple aspects of human experience. The Beckettian dramatic text, as shall be demonstrated in this book, is a fertile ground for a semiotic investigation that is orchestrated by the profound insights of C. S. Peirce. As it applies semiotics to Beckett s theatre, this book seeks to preserve, communicate and throw into relief those universal values in the playwright s works which remain unchallenged despite every change and every revolution in human societies. What this book will hopefully contribute to the general canon of theatrical studies is its study of the Beckettian dramatic text not as a model of the absurd tradition, but rather as a cultural product whose writer's thinking can scarcely be dissociated from the cultural environment within which it took shape, and whose deciphering requires the use of cultural codes and sub-codes which will undergo detailed examination in the course of analysis, a study that we may so generically call a cultural semiotic study of Beckett.
Author : Guri Barstad
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 11,1 MB
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1443857327
States of Decadence is a two volume anthology that focuses on the literary and cultural phenomenon of decadence. Particular attention is given to literature from the end of the 1800s, the fin de siècle; however, the essays presented here are not restricted to this historical period, but draw lines both back in time and forward to our day to illuminate the contradictory multiplicity inherent in decadence. Furthermore, the essays go beyond literary studies, drawing on a number of the tropes and themes of decadence manifested in the arts and culture, such as in music, opera, film, history, and even jewelry design. Volume 2 comprises essays on the following thematic areas: “Images of Decadent Women”, “Transmedia Decadence”, “Contemporary Decadence”, and “Poetic Decadence”. The contributors are part of an active network of international scholars from many different countries. As the expansive title of the volume suggests, they explore the decadent aesthetic approach to the arts, to culture, and to a worldview that juxtaposes a strange mixture of conservatism and rebellion, ambivalence and deep convictions.
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Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 41,11 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Degeneration
ISBN :