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... Decadent style , is new . Neverthe- less , the result is the best brief survey of decadent literature available , one that will prepare students well for lengthier academic studies such as Jean Pierrot's outstanding The Decadent ...
... Decadent style , is new . Neverthe- less , the result is the best brief survey of decadent literature available , one that will prepare students well for lengthier academic studies such as Jean Pierrot's outstanding The Decadent ...
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... decadent worldview . The decadent artist knows that " horror is a stimulant , " and at the same time that " there is some essential truth in horror ... the world is sick at heart ” ( 28 ) . Moreover , decadence is " a literature of ...
... decadent worldview . The decadent artist knows that " horror is a stimulant , " and at the same time that " there is some essential truth in horror ... the world is sick at heart ” ( 28 ) . Moreover , decadence is " a literature of ...
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... Decadent Paradoxes " specifies the paradox as the defining trope of decadent writing ( against Romanticism in particular ) . He then gives examples of three kinds of paradox - metalinguistic , thematic , and intertextual - from Huysmans ...
... Decadent Paradoxes " specifies the paradox as the defining trope of decadent writing ( against Romanticism in particular ) . He then gives examples of three kinds of paradox - metalinguistic , thematic , and intertextual - from Huysmans ...
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