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	Decadence (cultural movement)
		Decadence was the name given, first by hostile critics, and then triumphantly adopted by the writers themselves, to a number of late nineteenth century fin_de_siècle writers associated with Symbolism or the Aesthetic movement.
		In England the decadent movement was represented in the 1890s by Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater, Ernest Dowson, and Aubrey Beardsley and the writers of the Yellow Book.
		The Decadent movement was a transitional stage between romanticism and modernism.
	www.jahsonic.com /Decadents.html (1598 words)

	American Decadence
		Decadent literature promoted the autonomy of art (also known as art-for-art's sake) and represented the artist figure as a martyr to art and a despiser of mainstream bourgeois culture.
		Thematically, decadent literature dealt with the perverse, the bizarre, the morbid, the eccentric,and the artificial and is characterized by an interest in the perverse, the bizarre, the morbid.
		In mood, decadence was nostalgic, pessimistic, hyper-sensitive, and world-weary, while in terms of style decadence was characterized by a high degree of self-consciousness,an interest in arcane language, and ornate and elaborate expression.
	www.crcstudio.arts.ualberta.ca /americandecadence/about.php?s=about (503 words)

	Decadence notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Decadence as a feeling of impotence, powerlessness, one feels one is called upon to adapt to what is uncongenial.
		Decadence of our institutions perceived as something very deep rooted and not to be changed by a mere shift in fashionable ideas (that is public opinion).
		Essential movement of the age is the rise of the masses and someone like Mcluhan only really expresses this overwhelming fact, the arrogance of the masses and of mediocrity.
	www.mith.demon.co.uk /decadence.htm (10830 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Decadence
		In the development of modern Western literature, the Decadent movement of the late nineteenth century enjoys an ambiguous status, significant yet subversive.
		Decadence vocalizes the paradox of modern cosmopolitans who found themselves dependent on a lifestyle which they inherently despised.
		The sinister, teeming metropolis, the central symbol of Decadent literature, overshadows the protagonists in Decadent plots, and many novels from the 1860s onwards seem an accumulation of individual sketches of city life when compared with the developmental Bildungsromanen of the mid-nineteenth century.
	www.litencyc.com /php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=256 (501 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Decadence
		Symbolism, while echoing Decadence both in style and in its association of art with the realm of the mind and the imagination, minimized the seemingly perverse and immoral characteristics of the earlier movement.
		Decadence also had an influence in Russia in the early twentieth century, rising within the Russian Symbolist Movement and being influenced primarily by French writing and the works of Poe.
		The symbolist movement in painting and literature, which flourished in Europe from 1886 to 1905, was the first self-consciously queer movement in Western art history.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/decadence,5.html (1149 words)

	Essay on baudelaire and Decadent Movement
		It was appropriate that Bourget should call Baudelaire "one ofthe senimal educators of the emerging generation," especially because Bourget had come to associate decadence with the primacy of the aesthetic experience, thus echoing the view of Walter Pater and the aesthetes.
		One is entitled to acknowledge this wrong and to prefer the defeat of decadent Athens to the triumph of violent Macedonia.
		The early decades of Bourget's career are described in Lloyd James Austin, Paul Bourget, sa vie et son aeuvrejusqu'eu 1889 (Paris: I)roz, 1940).
	www.studiocleo.com /librarie/baudelaire/essaymain.html (2065 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Decadence
		Decadent literature is writing that either describes aspects of a decadent lifestyle or reflects Decadence through the deformation and refinement of style, form, syntax, and language.
		Most of the authors associated with the Decadent Movement are known for their writing rather than their lifestyles, just as a number of the Decadent authors who wrote about homosexuality or lesbianism were not overtly gay.
		The general notion of decadence in the nineteenth century involved the claim that when a society reached its peak of prosperity, it would no longer have to concern itself with such things as subsistence or regeneration.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/decadence,2.html (814 words)

	decadents on Encyclopedia.com
		In reaction to the naturalism of the European realists, the decadents espoused that art should exist for its own sake, independent of moral and social concerns.
		The decadents venerated Baudelaire and the French symbolists, the group with whom they are often mistakenly identified.
		In England the decadent movement was represented in the 1890s by Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater, Ernest Dowson, and Aubrey Beardsley and the writers of the Yellow Book.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/d1/decadent.asp (535 words)

	paperbrandel
		Decadence is transition, a drama of unsettled aesthetics, and the mixture of literary tendencies constituting that transition is at once within and without tradition and convention.
		Decadent art balances between linearity and spatiality, between explicitness and suggestion, between harmony and discord, between tradition and innovation, between story and image.
		The drawing is decadent, emphasizing the extremes of opposites, the elegance and fashion of the woman, and the whimsical fancy of her aspirations.
	www.cwru.edu /artsci/engl/VSALM/mod/brandelmcdaniel/index/paperbrandel.htm (4176 words)

	Texts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Swinburne called this gender-bender "the holy writ of beauty," and it was enormously influential on the aesthetes and decadents of the subsequent generation.
		Decadent dandies populate all his works; "Monsieur de Phocas" (1901) was recently translated into English by Dedalus Books.
		NORDAU, MAX "Degeneration" (1892) is an invective-filled polemic aimed against the aesthetes and decadents of the fin de siecle.
	www.dandyism.net /texts.html (2814 words)

	Offical Website of the American Fascist Movement
		In early 2001, fed up with the decadent political system, two young American college students decided that a change was imperative to raise public consciousness in support of ideals for a greater America.
		Thus the idea of a new American Fascist Party was born.
		Although there are some differences between Movement and Party members, the AFP has always heavily relied on the AFM site and forums for membership- without the movement there would be no Party.
	www.americanfascistmovement.com /about.html (445 words)

	Boredom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Boredom -- specifically ennui -- was especially important to the 19th century Decadent literary movement.
		Joris-Karl Huysmans' novel Against_Nature is a narrative by an anemic French nobleman afflicted by terminal ennui, and describes his bizarre experiences as he attempts to escape its grasp.
		It is considered a fundamental work of the fin de siècle Decadent movement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ennui (765 words)

	Decadence
		However, before his conviction on charges of "gross indecency," he was already famous as the outrageously effete "evangelist" of an artistic movement called Aestheticism (which celebrated the pursuit of beauty as the highest good and sought to overthrow the notion that a work of art had to serve some higher moral purpose).
		The Decadent artist upturned moral values and refused a social role in society (he/she was an iconoclast).
		In England the decadent movement was represented in the 1890s by Oscar Wilde, Ernest Dowson, and Aubrey Beardsley (read "Ballad of a Barber" here) and the writers of the Yellow Book.
	www.english.uwosh.edu /roth/Decadence.htm (1250 words)

	NIETZSCHE CONTRA PSYCHOANALYSIS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		From the decadent movement of the 1890s to the pop art of the 1960s, artists have explored the allure of the negative and threatening, teaching us how to enjoy what we would normally repudiate.
		Not only can we not be sure of the real causes of decadence, the chances are the wrong people will be in charge of any eugenic programme, which would certainly be dangerous.
		Part of the decadence Nietzsche identifies in Wagner, consists in the desire to dogmatise, or 'tyrannise' as he puts it.
	www.mith.demon.co.uk /NIETPSYCH.html (6467 words)

	Elagabalus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He also took a Vestal Virgin as one of a succession of wives and openly flaunted that his sexual interest in men was more than the pastime of previous emperors.
		This fl propaganda was passed on and as such he was one of the most reviled Roman emperors to early Christian historians and later became a hero to the Decadent movement of the late 19th century.
		Due to theses stories, Heliogabalus became something of a hero to the Decadent movement in the late 19th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elagabalus (2569 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Decadence
		The term decadent was used in England as early as 1837, appearing in Thomas Carlyle's (1795-1881) History of the French Revolution.
		Beardsley's Decadent drawing is known not only for "the Beardsley curve" and his balanced imbalance (precursors of Art Nouveau techniques), but also for its depictions of lesbians and grotesquery, and its apparent revelry in the macabre and fetishistic.
		The Decadent Movement in England ended almost overnight, with the Wilde trials in 1895.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/decadence,4.html (751 words)

	Decadence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Because of the span of his life he survived the Victorian period and was a contemporary to the Impressionists and founding advocate of the early modernist movement.
		Unsure about the idea of decadence as a literary style and distressed about it as a code of behavior, he, going against the "the age of afterthought," instead encouraged poets to "careful meditation on life." His poetry counters an intensity of religious and sensual passions against the classical restraint of its form.
		His participation in the Aesthetic movement through his writing, however, was not as prominent as that of his peers.
	cal.jmu.edu /aleysb/decadenc.htm (3793 words)

	TheCriticalPoet - Featured Movement - French Symbolism
		The movement reached its peak around 1890, and its popularity declined at the beginning of the next century.
		The movement was a revolt against the realistic and naturalistic poetic styles of the day, which were designed to capture the transient.
		Because of their interest in the bizarre and the artificial and in themes of decay and ruin, many of the Symbolist poets were identified with the Decadent movement of the same period.
	thecriticalpoet.tripod.com /symbolism.html (377 words)

	Search Results for decadent - Encyclopædia Britannica
		Decadence was a movement primarily associated with poetry but whose psychological basis is well illustrated in Huysmans' novel À rebours (1884; Against the Grain) and the Culte du moi trilogy...
		Japanese artist who was probably the most prolific of all the painters and printmakers of the ukiyo-e (“pictures of the floating world”) movement.
		Brief biography of this French poet, leader of the Symbolist movement in poetry, and one of the founders of 19th century literary movement Decadent.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=decadent&submit=Find&source=MWTAB (451 words)

	Mots Pluriels Winn
		By way of an answer, the following case study of the conflation of the identities of the decadent aesthete, the homosexual and the dandy, illustrates, with the wisdom of hindsight, that scientific theory, literary praxis, and popular stereotyping are all subject to the dictates of fashion.
		Unlike his thriving decadent sister the femme fatale, the decadent hero embodies all that ails contemporary society; he is physically sick, neurotic, and sexually perverse.
		Truth and fiction become one in the figure of Jean Lorrain; Decadence, homosexuality, the public and private identities of the author, the neuroses of his characters are all parts of the same image.
	www.arts.uwa.edu.au /MotsPluriels/MP1099pw.html (6455 words)

	F&P Russian Literature of the 20th Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The rise of Decadence as an idealistic-artistic literary movement can be traced to the 1890's.
		Despite their seemingly dissimilar outward appearances and sometimes quarrelsome relationships with each other, the various Symbolist groups of the 1890's: Mladosymbolists, Akmiests, and Futurists, were each currents of a larger Decadent movement.
		Due to the popular ascent of Symbolism in the 1890's, the movement was to undergo another step in its development.
	www.fplib.org /literature/20century.html (1232 words)

	Decadent -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Decadence was a movement primarily associated with poetry but whose psychological basis is well illustrated in Huysmans' novel À rebours (1884; Against the Grain) and the Culte du moi trilogy (1888–91) by Maurice Barrès.
		When used in reference to literature, the term essentially describes the movement inaugurated by the Decadent poets of France and the movement called Aestheticism in England...
		Williams portrayed a decadent South with tarnished or frustrated belles in A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955).
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9029675 (775 words)

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		The group of young men ([Alfred Schuler (1865-1923)] was thirty-two, the rest in their twenties) met to read and discuss mythology, cultural history, and literature.
		As with the volkisch neopagan groups at the turn of the century, the summer solstice is celebrated as one of the holidays of the new Nordic paganism movement (as it is in the neopagan movement in general).
		Flowers notes, however, that the members of these neo- Germanic groups "are more attracted by antiquarian interests or racial sentimentalities than by religious zeal or interest in self-transformation." This observation probably could hav been equally made about the many participants in the Volkstumbewegung circa 1900.
	www.luckymojo.com /esoteric/religion/asatru/neo-asatru/9901.astrnzi.rn (1183 words)

	Eternal Path - New Age Movement Explained
		Religions and spiritual systems from the East are moving West at an increasing rate as multitudes fall prey to the seductive lure of earth-plane powers, accurately referred to as ancient paganism or modern witchcraft, promising enlightenment while actually leading to spiritual bondage.
		In review, the New Age movement as a whole, inspires a inward-focused generation of “spiritual people” willing to trade their soul for the grand deception.
		The movements spiritual practices includes conjured imagery, visualization, hypnosis, channeling, chanting of mantras, energy work, sorcery, divination, and other occult techniques, which are not only unbiblical and cursed, but are potentially dangerous.
	eternalpath.com /newage.html (1661 words)

	ifPeople - Fair trade: V-Day highlights, Expanding Movement, Events
		The Kallari family cooperative in Ecuador is one such inspiring story made possible by the movement (and an outstanding chocolate!).
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		These new flavors of fair trade complement the richness of the movement established by the work of FLO, FTF, IFAT and others.
	www.ifpeople.net /community/news/20070216_fair (580 words)

	Symons, Arthur -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Online Article
		His Symbolist Movement in Literature (1899), the first English work championing the French Symbolist movement in poetry, summed up a decade of interpretation and influenced William Butler Yeats and T.S. Eliot.
		The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, formed in 1848 and unofficially reinforced a decade later, was founded as a group of painters but also functioned as a school of writers who linked the incipient Aestheticism of Keats and De Quincey to the Decadent movement of the fin de siècle.
		A leader of the symbolist movement, the French poet Arthur Rimbaud is known for the startling originality of his images.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article?tocId=9380042 (620 words)

	AllRefer.com - decadents (English Literature, 19th Century) - Encyclopedia
		decadents, in literature, name loosely applied to those 19th-century, fin-de-siEcle European authors who sought inspiration, both in their lives and in their writings, in aestheticism and in all the more or less morbid and macabre expressions of human emotion.
		The epithet was first applied in the 1880s to a group of self-conscious and flamboyant French poets, who in 1886 published the journal Le DEcadent.
		J. Huysmans's A rebours (1884) and Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) present vivid fictionalized portraits of the 19th-century decadent : his restlessness, his spiritual confusion, and his moral inversion.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/decadent.html (303 words)

	TRANS Nr. 15: Pamela S. Saur (Lamar University, Texas): Viennese Fin-de-Siècle Impressionism in International ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Nichts erfuhr der Junge."(6) The disintegration of the painting can be associated with decadence in the novel, which portrays the end of the Empire, intertwined with the downfall of the von Trotta family, and displays individual decadent traits in Carl Joseph and several other characters.
		The general modern technological, realistic, and down to earth trends that can be cited as influencing the movement, along with its emphasis on ordinary people, events, and scenes, were carried into parallel movements in literature; interest in connecting artistic genres accompanied loosening of the boundaries and defining characteristics of established literary and artistic genres.
		Indeed, several defining aspects of the movement, in terms of both rhetoric and subject matter, are taken for granted in poetry and are therefore more striking and original in prose and drama.
	www.inst.at /trans/15Nr/05_09/saur15.htm (4961 words)

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