Decadence in Literature and Intellectual Debate since 1945 [electronic resource] /
Landgraf, D.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part 1 Historical and Philosophical Perspectives; Chapter 1 On the Notion of Decadence in the FRG and France after 1945-with Examples by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Botho Strauß, ; Chapter 2 "In the very quick of the nightmare": Decadence and Mystics of Wilderness in Henry Miller's Cultural Criticism of Mo; Chapter 3 The Function of Decadence and Ascendance in Analytic Philosophy; Chapter 4 Progress and Decadence-Poststructuralism as Progressivism
Part 2Decadence and the Politics of Culture and LanguageChapter 5 The Concept of Decadence as Ideological and Law Enforce5 The Concept of Decadence as Ideological and LawEnforcement Category in the GDR; Chapter 6 Joual en stock: The Controversial Issue of Language Quality and Autochthonous Standardization in Quebec; Part 3 Literary and Film Studies; Chapter 7 Michelangelo Antonioni's Early "Trilogy of Decadence":; Chapter 8 Houellebecq's Fin de Siècle: Crisis of Society, Crisis of the Novel-
Chapter 9 The Shadow of Decadence: The Latin American Boom and the Taboo of the Spanish Novel of the Democratic PeriodChapter 10 Exile and Writing: Alfredo Bryce Echenique and the Decadence of the Myth of Paris; Chapter 11 Tradition, (Post)Modernity, and Decadence in Vargas Llosa's Lituma en los Andes and Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto; About the Authors; Index of Persons; Index of Terms
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.
Literature—History and criticism.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—Philosophy.
European literature.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literary History.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
European Literature.
Cultural Theory.