Stefano (Hrsg.) Evangelista

The Poetics of Decadence in Fin-de-Siècle Italy

Degeneration and Regeneration in Literature and the Arts

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In the 1880s and 1890s, materialism in art was counterbalanced by attention to the subjective individual experience, expressed in the new modes inaugurated by Symbolism, Decadence and Aestheticism. In particular, Decadent artists and writers inspired the lasting name of an age fascinated by the contemplation of luxury and decay: the fin de siècle. Notions of decadence and degeneration were not limited to aesthetic experience but were regarded as sociological phenomena and attained pseudoscientific status.This volume explores the themes of degeneration and regeneration in fin-de-siècle Italian culture, collecting together essays by recognized… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Giannantonio, Valeria (Hrsg.) / Selmi, Elisabetta (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-78707-630-3
EAN: 9781787076303
Produktnummer: 25903221
Verlag: Peter Lang
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 312 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'393 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Stefano Evangelista has completed a PhD in Italian literature at Durham University, where he is also a postgraduate member of the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies. He has been a visiting fellow in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University and a visiting PhD student at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.Valeria Giannantonio is Associate Professor of Italian Literature at the Università degli Studi G. D'Annunzio Chieti - Pescara. Her research interests include early modern Italian literature and the literary work of Gabriele D'Annunzio, Ignazio Silone and the crepuscular poets. She is member of the editorial boards of Critica letteraria, Studi medievali e moderni and Studium.Elisabetta Selmi is Associate Professor of Italian Literature and Medieval and Renaissance Theatre in the Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari at the University of Padua. Her research interests focus on Renaissance and early modern literature and theatre, nineteenth-century studies, classical poetics and religious literature.