A área cinzenta: Ibsen e o espírito do capitalismo by Franco Moretti

“…O autor mostra como a moralidade flexível e os imperativos capitalistas do fin-de-siècle burguês são apreendidos nas más ações dos protagonistas de Ibsen.…”
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Arturo Cova, un Bradomín selvático by Ana Vigne Pacheco

“…The construction of both characters is based on the model of a fin de siècle’s hero developed from European models belonging to that period. …”
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Negotiating Power: Olive Schreiner and Racial Exclusion in New Woman Fiction by Huzan Bharucha

“…Olive Schreiner’s novella, Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (1897), and The Story of an African Farm (1883) demonstrate how New Women writers adopted exclusionary imperialist ideologies in order to promote their agenda of female emancipation in fin-de-siècle Britain.…”
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Nympha: a changing paradigm for dance iconography by Silvia Mei

“…Influenced by contemporary studies on linguistics and Omero poetry forms (Parry, Curtius, Jolles), this figure shows much more trace of the fin de siècle imagery: the femme fatale and Goethe Ewigweibliches time. …”
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La construcción de un <em>cursus honorum</em> diplomático en tiempos de Carlos II: Francesco del Giudice (1684-1700) = The Construction of a Diplomatic <em>Cursus Honorum</em> in t... by Roberto Quirós Rosado

“…Through diplomatic networks, Roman politics, and strong patronages linked to loyalties, letters and gifts, it could be possible to understand the reasons why Del Giudice got the sympathy and favour of the Queen Maria Anna of Neuburg, the Cardinal Portocarrero and, of course, the King Charles II in the fin-de-siècle.…”
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Patología, escritura y género en el fin de siglo: Alma contemporánea y Manual del perfecto enfermo by Alba del Pozo García

“…This paper analyses two Spanish essays on illness published during the fin de siècle: José María Llanas Aguilaniedo’s 1899 Alma contemporánea and Rafael Urbano’s 1911 Manual del perfecto enfermo. …”
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Jung’s “Psychology with the Psyche” and the Behavioral Sciences by Raya A. Jones

“…The impact of the “science versus art” debate on Jung’s stance is considered with attention to its unfolding in the fin de siècle era.…”
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"A lady to take care of us at last" by Rosalind Crocker

“…By exploring contradictory modes of femininity, Barrie’s novel points to the ways in which established norms of masculinity at the fin-de-siècle were defined and frustrated by their relation to an unstable feminine ideal. …”
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Presentación by HC Presentación

“…En los dos próximos números de Studia Histórica se reúnen buena parte de los textos presentados en el seminario que bajo el título «Fin-de-siécle» se celebró en la residencia La Cristalera, de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, en Miraflores de la Sierra, los días 29 y 30 de septiembre y l2 de octubre de 1997.…”
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Soundtracks of Empire: “The White Man’s Burden,” the War in the Philippines, the“Ideals of America,” and Tin Pan Alley by Robert W. Rydell

“…By expanding the genre of the so-called “coon song” to include the people of these islands, composers and publishers contributed to the domestication of empire in fin-de-siècle America.…”
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Bringing the Laboratory Dog Home by Alyssa Chen Walker

“…In doing so, her imaginative literature illustrated, in ways that other discursive forms did not, how vivisection corroded fin de siècle America’s most sacrosanct values. …”
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Fata Morgana: Jean-André Castaigne, the American Indian, and American Artistic Aspirations in France by Emily C. Burns

“…When I was working on my dissertation on constructions of American cultural identities in fin-de-siècle Paris at Washington University in St. Louis in about 2009, I stumbled upon a five hundred page English-language novel published in 1904 by a French artist.…”
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A Desire for An Ideal (Svetozár Hurban Vajanský: Kotlín) by Dana Hučková

“…In spite of the fact that the decadent line is striking, it should not been forgotten that a picture of a decadent as well as the atmosphere of fin de siècle was his primarily depicted from the position of anti-decadence. …”
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Pastoral Bric-a-brac: Joseph Cornell’s Artistic Responses to Alain-Fournier’s Le Grand Meaulnes by Mario Jurado Bonilla

“…It is well-known that Joseph Cornell felt a strong attachment to anything French (especially from the fin-de-siècle period), but such is too broad an explanation for his interest on that particular novel. …”
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Mallarmé Apollinaire Maeterlinck Jarry: Space and Subject in French Poetry and Drama, c.1890-1920 by Shtutin, L

“…The poetic and dramatic practices of these four authors are assessed against the broader cultural and philosophical contexts of the <em>fin de siècle</em>. The <em>fin de siècle</em> witnessed a profound epistemological shift: the Newtonian-Cartesian paradigm, increasingly challenged throughout the nineteenth century, was largely dismantled, with ramifications beyond physics, philosophy and psychology. …”

The last Romantics: Kipling and Yeats, a comparative biography 1865-1906 by Bubb, ABT

“…After supplementing this analysis with a biographical perspective, we can perceive that these discourses originate in their late 19th century artistic upbringing, and in the closely linked social circles which they inhabited in fin-de-siècle London. It is their very mutuality during the 1890s which imparts rancour to their twentieth-century attitudes, after the Boer War had ideologically sundered them.…”

Villes mortes, villes à l’agonie. Écriture du ravage dans Le quatrième mur de Sorj Chalandon by Cécile Barraud

“…Particularly productive during the fin- de-siècle literature, the literary motif of dead cities is instilled with a new meaning in the Sorj Chalandon’s novel Le quatrième mur. …”
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Dowson’s Excesses and Poetics by Adrian Grafe

“…The 1890s were nothing if not a time of excess. The fin de siècle poets, almost all of whom had tragically overshort lives (and not by accident, either), were excessively aesthetic, drunk, and wild(e)—and none more so than Dowson.…”
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De l’individualisme à l’obsession narcissique. by Christian Ruby

“…Le lecteur qui a quelques souvenirs de ses lectures de jadis verra avec plaisir revenir au-devant de la scène de la recherche sociologique et de la scène des débats politiques cette sorte d’admonestation fin de siècle. À l’époque, en effet, le 20 e siècle tirait à sa fin, et ...…”
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L'azione Efficace nel Teatro del Novecento by Marco Marinis

“…A partire dalle esperienze fin de siecle dei simbolisti, e dalle ricerche sinestetiche fra pittura musica e teatro di Wassily Kandinsky, l'articolo prende in esame alcuni fra i principali tentativi intrapresi dai maestri della scena contemporanea per fare dei teatro e dello spettacolo gli strumenti di un'azione efficace sullo spcttatore e, prima ancora, sullo stesso attore, soffermandosi in particolare su Eisenstcin, Artaud e Grotowski.…”
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