Reframing decadence
Subtitle: C.P. Cavafy's imaginary portraits
By: Peter Jeffreys
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780801447082
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Decadence in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : dangerous thoughts; title: Aesthetic to the point of affliction : Cavafy and English aestheticism; title: Translating Baudelaire : l'esprit décadent and the early writings; title: Pictorialist poetics : transpositioning word and image; title: Paterian decadence : Hellenism, hedonism and the triumph of Rome; title: Cavafy's Byzantium : historicizing fantasies of exquisite decline; title: Epilogue : decadence's gay legacy.