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Page 481
... nature and the nineteenth - century faith in the inevitable expansion of the empire of progress , positivism , and democracy . He is not ashamed to enumerate the continuing attractions of the decadent worldview . The decadent artist ...
... nature and the nineteenth - century faith in the inevitable expansion of the empire of progress , positivism , and democracy . He is not ashamed to enumerate the continuing attractions of the decadent worldview . The decadent artist ...
Page 482
... Nature , for example , Des Esseintes's desire for natural flowers that look like fakes is a metalinguistic paradox : here the Romantic idea of a natural beauty that outshines anything artificial is first inverted into an elementary ...
... Nature , for example , Des Esseintes's desire for natural flowers that look like fakes is a metalinguistic paradox : here the Romantic idea of a natural beauty that outshines anything artificial is first inverted into an elementary ...
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... Nature as a cruel and malevolent force . Huxley incorporates this ancient mythical image to stand for the view of Nature espoused by nineteenth - century Naturalism . Nature and civilization are at odds with one another , and the ...
... Nature as a cruel and malevolent force . Huxley incorporates this ancient mythical image to stand for the view of Nature espoused by nineteenth - century Naturalism . Nature and civilization are at odds with one another , and the ...
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