Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas

by Remy de Gourmont, William Aspenwall Bradley (Translator)

Overview

Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas is a collection of essays by the novelist, poet, and literary critic Remy de Gourmont. An uncompromising free-thinker, his analytical intelligence is brought to bear on an wide range of topics: the cornerstone of his literary criticism, “The Disassociation of Ideas” is included here along with “Glory and the Idea of Immortality”, “Success and the Idea of Beauty”, “The Value of Education”, “Stéphane Mallarmé and the Idea of Decadence”, and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780996659994
Publisher:	Antipodes Press
Publication date:	09/11/2017
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.42(d)

Table of Contents

1. The Disassociation of Ideas
2. Glory and the Idea of Immortality
3. Success and the Idea of Beauty
4. The Value of Education
5. Women and Language
6. Stéphane Mallarmé and the Idea of Decadence
7. On Style or Writing
8. Subconscious Creation
9. The Roots of Idealism

Editorial Reviews

“As you read M. de Gourmont’s work it is not any particular phrase, poem, or essay that holds you, so much as a continuing sense of intelligence, of a limpid, active intelligence in the mind of the writer.... He stirs the ‘sense of the imagination,’ the reader is pervaded by luxurious rest, and then when the mind is most open, de Gourmont darts in with his acumen, a thrust, an incisive or revolutionary idea, spoken so softly.”

—Ezra Pound

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