Towheed, Shafquat
(2006). Containing the Decadent Text: Decadent Readers, Reading Decadence.
In: Fox, Paul ed.
Decadences: Morality and Aesthetics in British Literature.
Studies in English Literatures (2).
Stuttgart, Germany: Ibidem Verlag, pp. 1–31.
Abstract
In re-reading representative texts by Huysmans, Lee, Pater and Wilde, in this essay I will aim to demonstrate that the history of Decadent writing is inseparable from a concept of decadent reading, and specifically, from a socially constructed, aesthetically self-conscious, and fictionally mediated practice of reading: a practice of reading that offers a possible epistemology of Decadence.
| Item Type: |
Book Chapter
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| ISBN: |
3-89821-573-3, 978-3-89821-573-2 |
| Keywords: |
Decadence; history and practice of reading; re-reading; critical theory; J.K. Huysmans; Oscar Wilde; Walter Pater; Vernon Lee; intertextuality. |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Arts > English |
| Item ID: |
8833 |
| Depositing User: |
Shafquat Towheed
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| Date Deposited: |
01 Aug 2007 |
| Last Modified: |
02 Dec 2010 20:03 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/8833 |
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