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The Decadentism of the Parnassian Poets
Abstract
By revealing the bonds of friendship and mutual influences between the Parnassian poets and the Decadent poets, a literary history attentive to these connections invites us to reconsider the overly strict boundaries established between these two movements. A comparison of Parnassian and Decadent poetics reveals six main points of convergence, which highlight what is potentially decadent in the Parnassians and effectively Parnassian in the Decadents: pessimism towards modernity, resulting in a turn towards the doctrine of art for art’s sake; the search for the refinement of form; a nostalgia for beauty untainted by evil or suffering; the figure of the femme fatale; the evocation of sadism and cruelty; and an interest in perversions, particularly sexual ones.
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Parnasse, decadence, poetry, poetics, literary historyDetails
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