LEADER 03426nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910780194803321 005 20230209230241.0 010 $a0-8018-7464-5 035 $a(CKB)111056486618344 035 $a(EBL)3318184 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000135758 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11157936 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000135758 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10063705 035 $a(PQKB)10272414 035 $a(OCoLC)51494051 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse20121 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3318184 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10021659 035 $a(OCoLC)923191608 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3318184 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486618344 100 $a20010921d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDecadent subjects $ethe idea of decadence in art, literature, philosophy, and culture of the fin de sie?cle in Europe /$fCharles Bernheimer ; edited by T. Jefferson Kline and Naomi Schor 210 1$aBaltimore, Md. :$cJohns Hopkins University Press,$d2002. 215 $a1 online resource (xviii, 227 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aParallax 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8018-6740-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aCharles Bernheimer described decadence as a "stimulant that bends thought out of shape, deforming traditional conceptual molds." In this posthumously published work, Bernheimer succeeds in making a critical concept out of this perennially fashionable, rarely understood term. Decadent Subjects is a coherent and moving picture of fin de si?cle decadence. Mature, ironic, iconoclastic, and thoughtful, this remarkable collection of essays shows the contradictions of the phenomenon, which is both a condition and a state of mind. In seeking to show why people have failed to give a satisfactory account of the term decadence, Bernheimer argues that we often mistakenly take decadence to represent something concrete, that we see as some sort of agent. His salutary response is to return to those authors and artists whose work constitutes the topos of decadence, rereading key late nineteenth-century authors such as Nietzsche, Zola, Hardy, Wilde, Moreau, and Freud to rediscover the very dynamics of the decadent. Through careful analysis of the literature, art, and music of the fin de si?cle including a riveting discussion of the many faces of Salome, Bernheimer leaves us with a fascinating and multidimensional look at decadence, all the more important as we emerge from our own fin de si?cle. 410 0$aParallax (Baltimore, Md.) 606 $aAesthetics, European$y19th century 606 $aDegeneration$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aDecadence (Literary movement) 606 $aDecadence in art 615 0$aAesthetics, European 615 0$aDegeneration$xHistory 615 0$aDecadence (Literary movement) 615 0$aDecadence in art. 676 $a111.85/09409034 700 $aBernheimer$b Charles$f1942-$0457152 701 $aKline$b T. Jefferson$g(Thomas Jefferson),$f1942-$0188886 701 $aSchor$b Naomi$0458060 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780194803321 996 $aDecadent subjects$93805012 997 $aUNINA