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Literary Decadence and Critical Decay.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Literary Decadence and Critical Decay./
Author:	Beverage, Kevin David.
Description:	1 online resource (224 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-11, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-11A.
Subject:	British & Irish literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=29164365click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798426823228

Literary Decadence and Critical Decay.
Beverage, Kevin David.

Literary Decadence and Critical Decay. - 1 online resource (224 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-11, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Washington University in St. Louis, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation explores the ways in which literary decadence works against the tendency of literary history, scholarship, and literary institutions to make permanent-to monumentalize-certain styles, names, or movements. It does this through an examination of the role of criticism in decadent texts, and that criticism's resistance to the "technologies of maintenance" working to guarantee permanence. After examining Oscar Wilde's notion of criticism as conversational and that which comes before the work of art, thus breaking the permanency of the work of art, I shift to an analysis of two novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner. Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise is explored in terms of the ways that literary tastes contribute to the concrete formulation of literary arguments. Then, Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! is considered in terms of the ways that it deviates from the "programmatic style" of the institutional MFA program, which began the same year as Absalom's publication with the founding of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. I show how the novel critiques the notion of the "self-made author" through its more decadent and critical "grave style." Ultimately, this dissertation is meant to show how literary decadence's critique of permanency offers ways of interrogating the larger move toward permanency manifesting today, such as the ubiquitous presence of surveillance technologies.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798426823228Subjects--Topical Terms:

3284317
British & Irish literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

CriticismIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

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