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标题：Aestheticism, Decadence And Symbolism: Fin de Siècle Movements in Revolt
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作者：YUMNAM OKEN SINGH ; GYANABATI KHURAIJAM
期刊名称：Journal of Literature, Culture and Media Studies
印刷版ISSN：0974-7192
出版年度：2012
卷号：4
期号：7&8
语种：English
出版社：Chandra Publications
摘要：Aestheticism, decadence and symbolism are all movements in art and literature that sprang up almost simultaneously in England in the late nineteenth century. These fin de siècle movements are the offshoots ofthe French movement generally termed symbolism or decadence in the continent and they are considered to be the English branch of the French movement. These movements rose in reaction against the prevailing realistsand naturalists of the time, as well as against the neo-classical andromanticism. The proponents of aestheticism and decadence held thedoctrine of l'art pour l'art and emphasized the autonomy of works of artover life and criticism. The movement was led by Charles Baudelaire, J.K.Huysmans, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Stéphane Mallarmé and othersin France. In England, its chief exponents were A.C. Swinburne, WalterPater, Arthur Symonds, Oscar Wilde and a host of young artists. Somewhathedonists in nature, they look forward to beauty and pleasure, and placeform over content. Even though the movement met with public outcriesand severe criticism, it held its position for duration and is still a topic ofdebate in the field of culture and literary studies. It was after the prosecutionof Oscar Wilde in 1895 that many of the exponents severed their ties withthe movement and turned to symbolism, which in turn got itself absorbedin modernism.
关键词：Aestheticism; Decadence; Symbolism; Fin de siècle; l'art pour l'art; naturalism; avant-garde; romanticism; individualism; Queer; Modernism