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Decadence in Literature and Intellectual Debate since 1945

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  1. Diemo Landgraf
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  4. Literary and Film Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. Michelangelo Antonioni’s Early “Trilogy of Decadence”: L’avventura (1960), La notte (1961), L’eclisse (1962)

      • Jakob Willis
      Pages 133-152

    3. Houellebecq’s Fin de Siècle: Crisis of Society, Crisis of the Novel—Thematic and Poetological Intertextuality between Michel Houellebecq and Joris-Karl Huysmans

      • Betül Dilmac
      Pages 153-169

    4. The Shadow of Decadence: The Latin American Boom and the Taboo of the Spanish Novel of the Democratic Period

      • Pablo Sánchez
      Pages 171-185

    5. Exile and Writing: Alfredo Bryce Echenique and the Decadence of the Myth of Paris

      • Blanca Navarro Pardiñas
      Pages 187-204

    6. Tradition, (Post)Modernity, and Decadence in Vargas Llosa’s Lituma en los Andes and Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto

      • Diemo Landgraf
      Pages 205-224

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 225-232
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Bridging the gap between decadence as it is traditionally understood in literary and cultural studies and its relevance to current phenomena, this interdisciplinary collection examines literary texts and movies from Europe and the United States since 1945.

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"Decadence, as an aesthetic, philosophical, sociological or political concept, has been and remains one of the most controversial terms in any one culture's vocabulary. This collection offers a thought-provoking view of the development and the uses of the notion of a final sickness of the collective soul that will give much fodder for future studies, and contributes most usefully to the history of ideas, from the nineteenth century to the present day." - Vittorio Frigerio, Professor of French, Dalhousie University, Canada

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Mario Bosincu, University of Sassari, Italy Jens Lemanski, FernUniversität Hagen, Germany Konstantin Alogas, University of Mainz, Germany Gerald Hoffleit, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany Torben Ibs, University of Leipzig, Germany Claus D. Pusch, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany Jakob Willis, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany Betül Dilmac, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany Pablo Sánchez, University of Seville, Spain Blanca Navarro Pardiñas, University of Moncton, Canada

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