Salome and the Dance of Writing
Subtitle: Portraits of Mimesis in Literature
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: October 31, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780226519722
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literary theory; Special Subjects In Literature; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; General; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Mimesis in literature; Portraits in literature
First sentence: Joris-Karl Huysmans's novel, A Rebours (Against Nature) was to be called (by Arthur Symons) "the breviary of the Decadence."