LEADER 03692nam 22005895 450 001 9910484828503321 005 20250609111425.0 010 $a9783030344528 010 $a3030344525 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-34452-8 035 $a(CKB)4100000010011896 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5997304 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-34452-8 035 $a(Perlego)3493255 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5997252 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010011896 100 $a20191212d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDecadence and Modernism in European and Russian Literature and Culture $eAesthetics and Anxiety in the 1890s /$fby Jonathan Stone 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 219 pages) $cillustrations 311 08$a9783030344511 311 08$a3030344517 327 $a1. Introduction: Visible and Invisible Modernity -- 2. Decadent Style with a Symbolist Worldview: Palimpsest, Mise en abyme, and the Perils of Profound Superficiality -- 3. Decadent Metaphysics -- 4. The Danger of Seeing Too Much: Fin-de-siècle Ethics and Aesthetics in Oscar Wilde's Salome -- 5. Meaningfulness and Superficiality: Joseph Conrad's Surface Truths -- 6. When Metaphor Throttles Metonymy: The Perils of Misreading in Georges Rodenbach's Bruges-la-Morte -- 7. Conclusion: Fin-de-siècle Endings and Beginnings. 330 $aDecadence and Modernism in European and Russian Literature and Culture: Aesthetics and Anxiety in the 1890s rewrites the story of early modernist literature and culture by drawing out the tensions underlying its simultaneous engagement with Decadence and Symbolism, the unsustainable combination of this world and the other. With a broadly framed literary and cultural approach, Jonathan Stone examines a shift in perspective that explodes the notion of reality and showcases the uneasy relationship between the tangible and intangible aspects of the surrounding world. Modernism quenches a growing fascination with the ephemeral and that which cannot be seen while also doubling down on the significance of the material world and finding profound meaning in the physical and the corporeal. Decadence and Symbolism complement the broader historical trajectory of the fin de siècle by affirming the novelty of a modernist mindset and offering an alternative to the empirical and positivistic atmosphere of the nineteenth century. Stone seeks to recreate a significant historical and cultural moment in the development of modernity, a moment that embraces the concept of Decadence while repurposing its aesthetic and social import to help navigate the fundamental changes that accompanied the dawn of the twentieth century. . 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y19th century 606 $aEuropean literature 606 $aAesthetics 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature 606 $aEuropean Literature 606 $aAesthetics 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aEuropean literature. 615 0$aAesthetics. 615 14$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aEuropean Literature. 615 24$aAesthetics. 676 $a809.911 676 $a809.41 700 $aStone$b Jonathan$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01225690 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484828503321 996 $aDecadence and Modernism in European and Russian Literature and Culture$92845781 997 $aUNINA