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    Decadence, Degeneration, and the End

    Studies in the European Fin de Siècle

    Marja Härmänmaa, Christopher Nissen (2014)

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    Introduction

    The social, scientific, and industrial revolutions of the later nine-teenth century brought with them a ferment of new artistic visions. An emphasis on scientific determinism and the depiction of reality led t...

    Christopher Nissen, Marja Härmänmaa in Decadence, Degeneration, and the End (2014)

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    The Seduction of Thanatos: Gabriele D’Annunzio and the Decadent Death

    D’Annunzio was obsessed with death. In his last autobiographical work, Libro segreto (The Secret Book, 1935), he calls his peculiar memories “studies of death,” as death in one way or another often appeared in hi...

    Marja Härmänmaa in Decadence, Degeneration, and the End (2014)