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This book examines systematically, for the first time, 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 study examines Wilde's neglected 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's poetry, and how in Dowson it ripens into vexing non-collisions.

Decadence (Literary movement) --- English poetry --- Decadence (Literary movement). --- English poetry. --- History and criticism. --- Wilde, Oscar, --- Symons, Arthur, --- Dowson, Ernest Christopher, --- Dowson, Ernest, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- 1800-1899. --- England. --- History and criticism --- Wilde, Oscar --- Dowson, Ernest --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature - General --- English literature --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- Symons, Arthur William, --- Melmoth, Sebastian, --- Uaĭlʹd, Oskar, --- C. 3. 3, --- C. Three Three, --- Ṿild, Osḳar, --- Wilde, Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills, --- Ṿaild, Osḳar, --- Vaildas, Oskaras, --- Author of Lady Windermere's fan, --- Lady Windermere's fan, Author of, --- Vailds, Oskars, --- Ouailnt, Oskar, --- Uaylt, Ōskʻar, --- Уайльд, Оскар, --- Уальд, Оскар, --- וויילד, אוסקר, --- וויילד, אסקאר --- וויילד, אסקאר, --- ווילד, אסקאר --- ויילד, אוסקר --- ויילד, אוסקר, --- וילד, אוסקר --- וילד, אוסקר, --- וילד, אסקר, --- װײלד, אסקאר --- װײלד, אסקאר, --- وايلد، أوسكار --- وايلد، اسكار --- オスカー・ワイルド

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For the first time in scholarship, this essay collection interprets modernity through the literary micro-genres of the aphorism, the epigram, the maxim, and the fragment. Situating Friedrich Nietzsche and Oscar Wilde as forerunners of modern aphoristic culture, the collection analyses the relationship between aphoristic consciousness and literary modernism in the expanded purview of the long twentieth century, through the work of a wide range of authors, including Samuel Beckett, Max Beerbohm, Jorge Luis Borges, Katherine Mansfield, and Stevie Smith. From the romantic fragment to the tweet, Aphoristic Modernity offers a compelling exploration of the short form's pervasive presence both as a standalone artefact and as part of a larger textual and cultural matrix.

Modernism (Literature) --- Aphorisms and apothegms --- Literature, Modern --- Ana --- Apothegms --- Gnomes (Maxims) --- Sayings --- Epigrams --- Maxims --- Proverbs --- Quotations --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- History and criticism --- Conferences - Meetings

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"Our collection of essays re-evaluates the much critically contested term of Modernism that, eventually, came to be used of the dominant, or paradigmatic, strain of literary discourse in early-twentieth-century culture. Modernism as a category is one which is constantly challenged, hybridised, and fractured by voices operating from inside and outside the boundaries it designates. These concerns are reflected by those figures addressed by our contributors' chapters, which include Rupert Brooke, G.K. Chesterton, E.M. Forster, Thomas Hardy, M.R. James, C.L.R James, Vernon Lee, D.H. Lawrence, Richard La Galliene, Pamela Colman Smith, Arthur Symons, and H.G. Wells. Alert to these disturbing voices or unsettling presences that vex accounts of an emergent Modernism in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century literary cultures predominately between 1890-1939, our volume questions traditional critical mappings, taxonomies, and periodisations of this vital literary cultural moment. Our volume is equally sensitive to how the avant garde felt for those living and writing within the period with a view to offering a renewed sense of the literary and cultural alternatives to Modernism"--

English literature --- English literature. --- Modernism (Literature) --- Modernism (Literature). --- History and criticism --- 1900-1999. --- Great Britain.

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The first anthology of Decadent short stories reflecting a variety of fin de siècle themesGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748692149','ISBN:9780748692132','ISBN:9780748692156','ISBN:9780748692163']);This wide-ranging anthology showcases for the first time the short story as the most attractive genre for British writers who experimented with Decadent themes and styles. From familiar writers such as Ernest Dowson, Arthur Symons and Oscar Wilde to less well known writers such as Charles Ricketts, Victoria Cross and Ella D’Arcy, the 36 stories demonstrate ideas of class, gender, sexuality, and science as well as the Gothic, social satire, Symbolist fantasy, fairy tale, Naturalism/Realism, Impressionism, erotica, and the scientific romance. The selections represent the important role that magazine culture played in the unprecedented explosion of the Decadent short story in the 1890s. A full introductory essay sets the scene, while an introduction and endnotes for each story and explanatory material at the end of the book – including a chronologically arranged and annotated list of Aesthetic and Decadent stories and a select bibliography – make this anthology stand out.Key Features Brings a variety of rare and important stories together in one volume reflecting an influential literary genreExpands the scope of Decadence by bringing together male and female voices, obscure and famous authors, and stylistic and thematic concerns such as New Woman fiction, the Gothic, Impressionism, Realism, paganism, class, homosexuality, and science Includes a detailed introduction, an introduction and endnotes for each story, 3 appendices containing parodies, background sources, a chronologically arranged and annotated list of Aesthetic and Decadent stories, and a select bibliography"

Short stories, English --- English fiction --- Decadence (Literary movement) --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- English literature --- English short stories --- History and criticism