TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boyiopoulos,Kostas
TI  - The decadent image: the poetry of Wilde, Symons and Dowson 
T2  - Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
SN  - 9780748690930
AV  - PN56 .D433 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Wilde, Oscar,
KW  - Symons, Arthur,
KW  - Dowson, Ernest Christopher,
KW  - Decadence (Literary movement)
KW  - England
KW  - English poetry
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 1. Introduction: Sensual Text, Textual Sense: Aestheticism to Decadence --; Part One: OSCAR WILDE. 2. 'That love-enraptured tune': Eros and Art(ifice); 3. 'Charmides' and The Sphinx: Crashing into Objets d'Art --; Part Two: ARTHUR SYMONS. 4. Strangeness and the City: The Self among Fragmented Impressions; 5. Bianca's Body: Nerves and the Flâneurie of Flesh --; Part Three: ERNEST DOWSON. 6. 'A Little While': Expiration in Suspension; 7. Closely Apart: Aestheticising the Non-encounter --; 8. Coda: Modernist Responses; 2; b
N2  - 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
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