Article: DECADENT?; Yes, we in the West may be. But our Moslem critics fail to understand such weakness is actually a by-product of our moral strength.

Article: I am decadent, and boy it's hard work ; One man's filth ...
The Independent on Sunday;  November 12, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Arthur Schopenhauer. The decadent sensibility was typified by ... hallmarks of the dandy. The decadents despised the notions of rationalism ... change. The triumph of the decadent movement has been the enduring ... Meanwhile, much of the decadents' literary output has become ...

Article: DECADENT SUBJECTS: THE IDEA OF DECADENCE IN ART, ...
Comparative Literature;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...DECADENT SUBJECTS: THE IDEA OF DECADENCE ... convinced that free nations were decadent and weak" (September 7 ... registers what "we" are not [decadents]-a distinction between ... or, in a word, "the decadent," with its connotations ...

Article: Jolly? No, this is the season to be DECADENT.
The Daily Mail (London, England);  December 20, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... compiled and edited The Decadent Handbook, a rallying ... think luminaries of the Decadent movement during the ... have approved. The Decadents were writers, artists ... artist's ruin. The Decadents preferred life to burn ... by the authors of The Decadent Cookbook - a true Christmas ...

Encyclopedia entry: decadents
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      454 words ...decadents in literature, name loosely ... European realists, the decadents espoused that art should ... eacute;cadent. The decadents venerated Baudelaire and ... identified. In England the decadent movement was represented ...

Article: books: Take a dive into decadence; ROWAN PELLING The ...
Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England);  November 5, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... book fans, I did say annals.) The Decadent Handbook is a jaunty introduction to ... of decadence. Early chapters focus on decadent theory, where the subject is analysed ... problem is, of course, that 'Dave Decadent' would despise such educated ramblings ...

Article: The West is decadent and decayed: we have managed ...
Presbyterian Record;  February 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... cult of the orgasm. Yet the West is not decadent. If sex is supposed to be ... an archaic fantasy. Yet the West is not decadent. When marriage does occur ... fabric of our society. Yet the West is not decadent. Men marry men, women marry ...

The dynamics of decadent narrative in Jean Lorrain's 'Sonyeuse.'
Studies in Short Fiction;  January 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... that the subject of Decadent literature is nothing ... Bernheimer asks, "is decadent sensibility so eager ... Lorrain is typical of the Decadents in making something ... life" (110). The Decadents' ambivalence about ... outside space in which the Decadent protagonist is a refugee ...