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'A Memnon waiting for the day' : Ancient Egypt in Aestheticism and Decadence
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Ingår i: Victorian literary culture and ancient Egypt. - Manchester : Manchester University Press. - 9781526141880 ; , s. 139-161
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter turns to ancient Egypt in the literature of the aesthetic and decadent movements, exploring how this differs from the so-called classical ‘ideal’ of Greece and Rome. Beginning with Baudelaire’s influential use of ancient Egypt in the ‘Spleen’ poems of Les Fleurs du mal (1857), it locates three interrelated, but also competing and seemingly contradictory, discursive deployments of ancient Egypt in literature of the period: firstly, in an argument derived from Hegel’s Aesthetics (1818–29), Egypt as ‘Symbolic’ mystery, whose art is underdeveloped by comparison to the ‘Classical Ideal’, waiting for the day of the ‘Greek spirit … with its power of speech’; secondly, Egypt as a site of ennui, where the ‘symbolic’ dimensions are linked intrinsically to a melancholic decadence and to death; and thirdly, Egypt as exoticism, and Orientalist sensuality, linking also to the significance of contemporary fin-de-siècle Egypt in homosexual culture. This chapter examines Walter Pater’s essay on ‘Winckelmann’ from The Renaissance (1873), and Oscar Wilde’s poem The Sphinx (1894) amongst other materials to argue that ancient Egypt was a marginal but nevertheless significant subject for the aesthetes and decadents.
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Mansfield, Chekhov, and the Sneezing Sheep
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Ingår i: Notes and Queries. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0029-3970 .- 1471-6941. ; 67:1, s. 135-137
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Ruskin and Venice
- 2020
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Ingår i: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783319625928
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The Aesthetics of Space in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, 1843-1907
- 2020
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- Charting an ‘aesthetic’, post-realist tradition of writing, this book considers the significant role played by John Ruskin’s art criticism in later writing which dealt with the new kinds of spaces encountered in the nineteenth-century. With chapters devoted to the ways in which aesthetic and decadent writers such as Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde built upon and challenged Ruskin’s ideas, the book links the late Dickens to the early modernism of Henry James. The Aesthetics of Space in Nineteenth-Century British Literature gives a vibrant vision of what an aesthetically sensitive treatment of these spaces looked like during the period.
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Three French Modernists
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Ingår i: The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783030331351 - 9783030331368 ; , s. 1093-1108
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter focuses on the Gothic of three French modernist writers, Georges Bataille, Pierre Klossowski and Maurice Blanchot. It begins by contextualising Bataille’s philosophy alongside Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis, arguing that Bataille’s work proved a major theoretical resource for twentieth-century gothic traditions. Focusing in particular on Bataille’s ideas of eroticism, excess and transgression, and his critical work on gothic fiction and figures including the Marquis de Sade and Gilles de Rais, the chapter then considers Bataille’s own contributions to gothic fiction. Focus then turns to the ways in which Bataille’s Gothic influenced two of his friends and most significant heirs in French modernism, Klossowski and Blanchot. In all three, the Gothic is written and theorised in relation to the traumatic events which ravaged France during the period of the First and Second World Wars.
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