Copycat: Duplication and Creation in American Psycho and Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis by Frédéric Dumas

“…This paper starts by bringing to light Ellis’s conjuring tricks, before considering the relevance of a commodified persona in the context of a fin de siecle dominated by the emblematic figure of the yuppie as a grotesque dandy. …”
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La « modernité viennoise » : de la réception du naturalisme à une « mystique des nerfs » by Karl Zieger

“…Within the span of a few years, such writers as Arthur Schnitzler, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Richard Beer-Hofmann and a few others evolved from bourgeois realism to fin-de-siecle estheticism, incorporating such movements as naturalism, impressionism, symbolism and decadence. …”
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AN AUTEUR OF DECADENCE: SOFIA COPPOLA AND THE UNBEARABLE HEAVINESS OF COMING OF AGE by Nayla Majestya

“…This glorification is bolstered by her signature style that echoes the spirit of the Decadent movement in the late-nineteenth-century European art scenes, which was preoccupied with the idea of fin de siècle or society in transition at the end of time. …”
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« A reality that almost amounts to illusion » by Martine Lambert-Charbonnier

“…Considering the painter as a rival of nature, Leonardo da Vinci creates beauty and life in his art, while Mona Lisa embodies the ideal of the Renaissance with its emphasis on experience and the senses which fin-de-siècle writers find so akin to the modern spirit. …”
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AV Dicey on English imperialism by Middleton, A

“…It also opens up wider questions about fin-de-siècle imperial ideas, and political theory. Dicey’s analysis of the rise of imperialist conviction reminds us that the phenomenon was not just a background to new currents of imperial political thought, but one of the transformations imperial thinkers aimed to explain. …”

Places of form in Early Modern Poetics: art, mind, and voice by Hetherington, M

“…This essay explores the flexible and imaginatively generative ways in which the concept migrated from discourses of philosophy and logic into literary criticism and practice, drawing on a range of writers of different nationalities from across the early modern period, but focusing especially on English literature of the Elizabethan fin-de-siècle. It argues, in particular, that one of form’s principal places in that exciting cultural moment was the mind of the poet: the mind trained, structured, or ‘informed’ by poetic theory; the mind as a place which moulds and shapes the materials of language and representation into communicative forms; the mind as the source for the forms of utterance we call ‘style’.…”

Voorvechters van regeneratie. Geschiedbeeld en toekomstverwachting in de Praktisch Idealisten Associatie (1919-1931) by Robbert-Jan Adriaansen

“…</p><p> </p><p>Het historisch debat over de hervormingsbewegingen van het fin de siècle en het interbellum is lange tijd bepaald geweest door Jan Romeins analyse van deze bewegingen als ‘kleine geloven’ – naïeve idealistische bewegingen die ontstaan zijn uit het schuldcomplex van de burgerlijke klasse. …”
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Science and decadence: evolutionary biology in works by Henry James, Elizabeth Robins, and Edith Wharton by Abdalla, D

“…With an emphasis on critically overlooked works, this thesis reconsiders the relationship between literature and science by recovering the influence of the work of figures such as August Weismann on postbellum American literature and addressing a long-acknowledged gap in our understanding of the legacy of fin de siècle drama for the development of literary Modernism. …”

Patagonia: nature and territories by Alejandro Fabián Schweitzer

“…This paper analyzes the place occupied by Patagonia in today’s fin de siècle scenario of commodities, hegemony crisis and multi-polar world emergence concurring with the convergence of consumerist guidelines, all of which would apparently lead to an in-depth socio-ecological crisis as well as to an accelerated dispute over nature and territory sense.…”
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Los secretos de las damas muertas : dos reelaboraciones de lo fantástico en la obra de Emilia Pardo Bazán by Isabel Clúa Ginés

“…Literary criticism has usually not paid much attention to the relation between the work of Emilia Pardo Bazán and the fin-de-siècle models of femininity. This essay will try to do so by means of an intertextual analysis of two short stories by the author -"Mi suicidio" (1894) and "La resucitada" (1908)- and two key works of fantastic literature -"Ligeia" (1938), by E.A. …”
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The Studio and the Craftsman as Artist: A Study in Periodical Poetics (1893–1900) by Catherine Delyfer

“…This paper examines the visual and discursive constructions and reconfigurations of the persona of the decorative artist in the influential fin de siècle magazine for the fine and applied arts The Studio. …”
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"La voluntad" y el anarquismo literario de Martínez Ruiz by Cristian H. Ricci

“…The final objective of this article is to establish the development of Fin de siècle realistic-naturalist narrative into Modernism, using the heterogeneous model of La voluntad.…”
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Un roman néo-gothique : The Three Impostors d’Arthur Machen (1895) by Claire Wrobel

“…The novel reflects the evolution of Victorian Gothic, setting tales of terror and horror in the here and now of fin-de-siècle London. The contemporary threats of New Women and democratization are casually brushed aside, but Machen fully draws upon the anxiety generated by the possibility of reversion opened up by the theory of evolution and explored by anthropologists and criminologists. …”
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"Brücke dreht sich um!". A Deconstructionist Reading of Kafka's "Die Brücke" by Eva Hoffmann

“…Placed in the context of fin-de-siècle's discourse of language crisis, this article provides a dialogue between Kafka's "Die Brücke" and Hannah Arendt's (1906-1975) philosophy of thinking and speaking in The Life of the Mind. …”
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Trayecto urbano, aprendizaje y decepción: Juana Lucero se (re)descubre en el Santiago de fin de siglo (XIX-XX) by Claudia Darrigrandi

“…This article focuses on representational practices involved in Juana Lucero’s portray within the urban experience of fin de siècle Santiago. Special emphasis is given to the links between lettered and visual cultures.…”
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Capere, Non Capi: Eugénio de Castro no contexto da "Internacional Simbolista" by José Carlos Seabra Pereira, Maria de Jesus Cabral

“…Decades later, the literary history critics were still qualifying his poetry as “New Poetry”. In that fin de siècle period, the image of the “aesthete” becomes paradigmatic; and from its ideal an arduous and bold commitment is inseparable, in an intervention strategy to literature’s institutional functioning according to the rules of aristocratism and the originality paroxysms. …”
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Synthesizing Religions: Vasily Rozanov’s “Phallic Christianity” by Henrietta Mondry

“…Vasily Rozanov was one of the first Russian writers of the fin de siècle to create a nexus between the study of the history of world religions and the history of sexuality. …”
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La historia como concepto histórico: historia erudita, historia filosófica e historia científica en los siglos XVIII y XIX by Pedro RUIZ TORRES

“…<br />debate about the function and status of History in this fin de siècle.</p>…”
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Du « clan divin des femmes amoureuses » à la « race maudite » : élaboration, représentations et discontinuités de l’identité lesbienne dans la trajectoire de Mireille Havet (1898-1... by Emmanuelle Rétaillaud-Bajac

“…This paper aims to analyze the elaboration of and the gaps in the identity of the French lesbian writer Mireille Havet (1898-1932), at a time when a saphic scene took shape in fin-de-siecle Paris and the First World War led to the destabilization of gender. …”
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La poesía de Juan Ramón Jiménez como ontología simbólica by Antonio Gutiérrez Pozo

“… La poesía de Juan Ramón Jiménez pretende volver a unir palabra y cosa, separadas por la crisis fin-de-siècle del lenguaje. Para lograrlo adopta un realismo mágico trascendente. …”
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