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The Poetics of Sensuality and the Excess of Style in Belgian Fin-de-Siècle Symbolism: Gilkin, Elskamp, Giraud
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This article examines how fin-de-siècle Belgian literature intertwines the sensory and the spiritual through the motifs of synaesthesia and fragility. Focusing on the works of Iwan Gilkin, Max Elskamp, and Albert Giraud, it explores how these poets, as heirs to Symbolism, redirect its concerns toward a distinctly Belgian aesthetic – marked by fervour, humility, and a keen awareness of dissonance. This analysis unfolds across three focal points: Gilkin’s metaphysical synaesthesia, where sensation becomes vertigo; Elskamp’s spiritualisation of the everyday, which turns poetry into an act of delicate devotion; and Giraud’s ironic stylisation, where formal excess exposes the rift between world and language. From these perspectives there emerges a poetics of trembling – an art of unfinished correspondence, in which the music of style reflects the fragility of sensation and the awakening of a lucid modernity.
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Belgian Symbolism, fin-de-siècle, synaesthesia, spirituality and sensuality, aesthetics of dissonance, poetics of trembling, Albert Giraud, Max Elskamp, Iwan GilkinDetails
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