Symbolism, Decadence and the Fin de Siecle: French and European Perspectives

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Contents: Part 1: Mallarme and siecle finissant, Peter Dayan disinterested Narcissus - play of politics in decadent form, Jennifer Birkett experiment in women's writing in fin de siecle, Alison Finch poetry of symbolism and decadence, Clive Scott difficult distance - Mallarme and symbolist stage, Michael Holland kinaesthetics of chance - Mallarme's Un Coup de des and avant-garde choreography, Dee Reynolds Villiers, Verne, Lumiere - business of immortality, Ian Christie text and image, allegory and symbol in Gustave Moreau's Jupiter et Semele, Peter Cooke between medicine and hermeticism - the unconscious in fin de siecle. Part 2: primitivism, celticism and morbidity in Atlantic fin de siecle, Scott Ashley Belgian symbolism and question of Belgian literary identity, Patrick Laude temporary aesthetes - decadence and symbolism in Germany and Austria, Robert Vilain war of wor(l)ds - symbolist decadent literature and discourses of power in finisecular Spain, Richard A. Cardwell French symbolism and Italian poetry, 1880-1920, Shirley W. Winall from Mallarme to Pound - Franco-Anglo-American axis, Patrick McGuinness.