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Thomas Mann's Death in Venice: A Novella and Its Critics
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Thomas Mann's Death in Venice: A Novella and Its Critics

Thomas Mann's 1912 novella Death in Venice is one of the most famous and widely read texts in all of modern literature, raising such issues as beauty and decadence, eros and irony, and aesthetics and morality.
 
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Tags: Thomas, Venice, Death, irony, decadence
The Travels of the King Charles II in Germany and Flanders 1654 - 1660
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The Travels of the King Charles II in Germany and Flanders 1654 - 1660The Travels of the King Charles II in Germany and Flanders 1654 - 1660

In a former volume I have dealt with the first eight yearsof Charles II's exile ; in the present one I have sought to follow his career from the time of his departure from France in July 1654 to that of his return to England in May 1660. The story of these six years is a somewhat depressing record of ever-growing misery, despondency, and want, of domestic dissension and moral decadence ; but if this period is less exciting than the earlier one it is also less well known and by no means devoid of incident.
 
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Tags: Charles, dissension, moral, decadence, domestic, Flanders, Travels, Germany, despondency
From Dawn to Decadence 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life
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From Dawn to Decadence 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life

At the outset of Jacques Barzun's colossal book From Dawn to Decadence 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, the author admits that when asked by friends how long he has been writing his book, he can only answer-a lifetime. All of Western life and thought can be found somewhere in From Dawn to Decadence. Portraits of Martin Luther, Shakespeare, Descartes, Florence Nightingale and James Joyce jostle alongside snapshots of cities at turning points in history.


Edited by: arcadius - 9 February 2010
Reason: category changed from Fiction to Non-Fiction

 
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Tags: Western, Decadence, Years, Cultural, Present
Fictions of British Decadence: High Art, Popular Writing and the Fin De Siecle
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Fictions of British Decadence: High Art, Popular Writing and the Fin De SiecleFictions of British Decadence is a fresh account of the emergence, development, and legacy of fiction written in the era of Oscar Wilde. It examines a broad range of texts by a diverse array of Decadent writers, from familiar figures such as Ernest Dowson and John Davidson to lesser-known innovators such as Arthur Machen and M.P. Shiel. MacLeod fills a large gap in understanding the movement that helped negotiate transition from the Victorian triple-decker to experimental Modernist fiction.
 
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Tags: Fictions, fiction, Decadence, British, MacLeod, Decadence, fills, large, movement