The Decadent Image: The Poetry of Wilde, Symons and Dowson (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture) - Hardcover

Boyiopoulos, Kostas

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ISBN 10: 0748690921 ISBN 13: 9780748690923

Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2015

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Explores culturally significant encounters between sensuality and artificiality in the poetry of Wilde, Symons, and Dowson

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Kostas Boyiopoulos is Teaching Associate at the Department of English Studies, Durham University. His main research specialisms are fin-de-siècle Decadence and Aestheticism, and Anglo-Continental literary transactions. He is a co-editor of The Decadent Short Story: An Annotated Anthology (Edinburgh UP, 2014) and the essay collection Decadent Romanticism (Ashgate, 2015). He has published a number of articles on late Victorian and Modernist topics.

Kostas Boyiopoulos is a Teaching Associate at the Department of English Studies, Durham University.

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***AUTHOR APPROVED***Kostas Boyiopoulos’s study of three poets of the English Decadence offers a lively, illuminating exploration of the strangely textualised fetishisms at work in their verse. Valuably attentive to grammar and verse-form, this account of Wilde, Symons, and Dowson captures the defining irresolutions and paradoxes of Decadent poetry.Chris Baldick, Goldsmiths, University of LondonExplores culturally significant encounters between sensuality and artificiality in the poetry of Wilde, Symons, and DowsonThis book enquires into the problem of venerating artificiality and the inaccessibility of beauty associated with it whilst engaging in the sensuous, immediate experience as advocated by Walter Pater. It examines for the first time together poems by three protagonists of the 1890s: Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons and Ernest Dowson. It sees their poems as sites where the self sensually collides with or is immersed in their artifice. This is understood through the shift from Aestheticism to Decadence, which is marked by a greater emphasis on heterodox erotic experience. This study examines Wilde’s early poetry and its role in triggering this shift. It shows how the idea of an erotic encounter with artifice reaches its apex in Symons, and how in Dowson it ripens into vexed non-encounters.Key Features•The first monograph study to focus exclusively on Decadent poetry•Gives original attention to Oscar Wilde’s early poetry which has been relatively neglected•Makes a clear and explicit distinction between ‘Aestheticism’ and ‘Decadence’, defining the nuances of their relationship•Includes a Coda which considers how this Decadent poetics transmutes in ModernismKostas Boyiopoulos is Teaching Associate at the Department of English Studies, Durham University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0748690921
• ISBN 13: 9780748690923
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 219
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