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Reframing decadence : C.P. Cavafy's imaginary portraits /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jeffreys, Peter (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Cavafy, Constantine, > 1863-1933 > Criticism and interpretation.
Decadence in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : "dangerous thoughts"
  • 1. "Aesthetic to the point of affliction" : Cavafy and English aestheticism
  • 2. Translating Baudelaire : l'esprit décadent and the early writings
  • 3. Pictorialist poetics : transpositioning word and image
  • 4. Paterian decadence : Hellenism, hedonism and the triumph of Rome
  • 5. Cavafy's Byzantium : historicizing fantasies of exquisite decline
  • Epilogue : decadence's gay legacy.