Paul Fox 
Decadences – Morality and Aesthetics in British Literature [PDF ebook] 
Second, Revised and Expanded Edition

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This revised and expanded volume examines the intersections of aesthetics and morality and asks what Decadence means to art and society at various moments in British literature. As time passes, the definition of what it takes to be D/decadent changes. The decline from a higher standard, social malaise, aesthetic ennui – all these ideas presume certain facts about the past, the present, and the linear nature of time itself. To reject the past as a given, and to relish the subtleties of present nuance, is the beginning of Decadence.
The conflict underlying the contributions to this collection is that of society’s moral contempt vis-a-vis the focus on the fleeting present on part of the purportedly decadent artists; who in turn thought the truly decadent to be the stranglehold society maintained on individual interpretation and the interpretation of oneself.

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Paul Fox (Ph.D. University of Georgia) is an Associate Professor at East Georgia College. He has published articles upon fin de siècle aesthetics, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde and J. M. Barrie. He is currently completing a book-length study of Decadence and aesthetic time.

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Lingua Inglese ● Formato PDF ● Pagine 430 ● ISBN 9783838266237 ● Dimensione 2.2 MB ● Editore Paul Fox ● Casa editrice ibidem ● Pubblicato 2014 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 7401881 ● Protezione dalla copia DRM sociale

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