European Aestheticism and Spanish American Modernismo

1. Introduction: Redefining the Role of Art and the Artist at the Turn of the Century
Kelly Comfort

Part I. The Artist Avoids “Art for Life’s Sake”

2. The Artist as Critic and Liar: The Unreal and Amoral as Art in Oscar Wilde
Kelly Comfort

3. The Artist as Creative Receptor: The Subjective Impression as Art in José Asunción Silva
Kelly Comfort

Part II. The Artist Protests “Art for the Market’s Sake”

4. The Artist as Elitist Taster: The Unprofaned and Unconsumed as Art in J.-K. Huysmans
Kelly Comfort

5. The Artist as Creator Not Producer: The Unsold and Unappreciated as Art in Rubén Darío
Kelly Comfort

Part III. The Artist Promotes “Life for Art’s Sake”

6. The Artist as Dandy-Aesthete: The Self as Art in Oscar Wilde and Thomas Mann
Kelly Comfort

7. The Artist as Dandy-Flâneur: The World as Art in Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera and Julián del Casal
Kelly Comfort

8. Conclusion: Reconsidering the Relationship between Art and Life, Form and Content, Poetry and Prose
Kelly Comfort

Keywords: Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Literary History, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory