Decadence and Modernism in European and Russian Literature and
Culture: Aesthetics and Anxiety in the 1890s rewrites the story of
early modernist literature and culture by drawing out the tensions
underlying its simultaneous engagement with Decadence and
Symbolism, the unsustainable combination of this world and the
other. With a broadly framed literary and cultural approach,
Jonathan Stone examines a shift in perspective that explodes the
notion of reality and showcases the uneasy relationship between the
tangible and intangible aspects of the surrounding world. Modernism
quenches a growing fascination with the ephemeral and that which
cannot be seen while also doubling down on the significance of the
material world and finding profound meaning in the physical and the
corporeal. Decadence and Symbolism complement the broader
historical trajectory of the fin de siecle by affirming the novelty
of a modernist mindset and offering an alternative to the empirical
and positivistic atmosphere of the nineteenth century. Stone seeks
to recreate a significant historical and cultural moment in the
development of modernity, a moment that embraces the concept of
Decadence while repurposing its aesthetic and social import to help
navigate the fundamental changes that accompanied the dawn of the
twentieth century.
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