Decadence in Literature and Intellectual Debate since 1945

Part 1. Historical and Philosophical Perspectives

1. On the Notion of Decadence in the FRG and France after 1945—with Examples by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Botho Strauß, and Richard Millet
Diemo Landgraf

2. “In the very quick of the nightmare”: Decadence and Mystics of Wilderness in Henry Miller’s Cultural Criticism of Modernity
Mario Bosincu

3. The Function of Decadence and Ascendance in Analytic Philosophy
Jens Lemanski, Konstantin Alogas

4. Progress and Decadence—Poststructuralism as Progressivism
Gerald Hoffleit

Part 2. Decadence and the Politics of Culture and Language

5. The Concept of Decadence as Ideological and Law Enforcement Category in the GDR
Torben Ibs

6. Joual en stock: The Controversial Issue of Language Quality and Autochthonous Standardization in Quebec
Claus D. Pusch

Part 3. Literary and Film Studies

7. Michelangelo Antonioni’s Early “Trilogy of Decadence”: L’avventura (1960), La notte (1961), L’eclisse (1962)
Jakob Willis

8. Houellebecq’s Fin de Siècle: Crisis of Society, Crisis of the Novel—Thematic and Poetological Intertextuality between Michel Houellebecq and Joris-Karl Huysmans
Betül Dilmac

9. The Shadow of Decadence: The Latin American Boom and the Taboo of the Spanish Novel of the Democratic Period
Pablo Sánchez

10. Exile and Writing: Alfredo Bryce Echenique and the Decadence of the Myth of Paris
Blanca Navarro Pardiñas

11. Tradition, (Post)Modernity, and Decadence in Vargas Llosa’s Lituma en los Andes and Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto
Diemo Landgraf

Nyckelord: Literature, Literary History, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, European Literature, Cultural Theory