Decadence in literature and intellectual debate since 1945

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
On the Notion of Decadence in the FRG and France after 1945—with Examples by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Botho Strauß, and Richard Millet....Pages 3-24
“In the very quick of the nightmare”: Decadence and Mystics of Wilderness in Henry Miller’s Cultural Criticism of Modernity....Pages 25-48
The Function of Decadence and Ascendance in Analytic Philosophy....Pages 49-65
Progress and Decadence—Poststructuralism as Progressivism....Pages 67-81
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
The Concept of Decadence as Ideological and Law Enforcement Category in the GDR....Pages 85-109
Joual en stock: The Controversial Issue of Language Quality and Autochthonous Standardization in Quebec....Pages 111-129
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Michelangelo Antonioni’s Early “Trilogy of Decadence”: L’avventura (1960), La notte (1961), L’eclisse (1962)....Pages 133-152
Houellebecq’s Fin de Siècle: Crisis of Society, Crisis of the Novel—Thematic and Poetological Intertextuality between Michel Houellebecq and Joris-Karl Huysmans....Pages 153-169
The Shadow of Decadence: The Latin American Boom and the Taboo of the Spanish Novel of the Democratic Period....Pages 171-185
Exile and Writing: Alfredo Bryce Echenique and the Decadence of the Myth of Paris....Pages 187-204
Tradition, (Post)Modernity, and Decadence in Vargas Llosa’s Lituma en los Andes and Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto....Pages 205-224
Back Matter....Pages 225-232