Oorsprong, eenvoud en natuur. De bloeitijd van de kunstenaarskolonies, 1860-1910 by W. Krul

“…The ideologies of the fin de siècle aimed on the one hand to establish a new contact with ‘nature’, which was seen as a regenerative power, but on the other hand strove to overcome ‘nature’, which was also viewed as the source of baser instincts and the materialist aspects of life. …”
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« La conférence sur la conférence » de Lucien Muhlfeld (1894) : une réincarnation de la conférence comique dans l’espace du théâtre d’art by Nicolas Fourgeaud

“…On propose d’analyser comment, dans un contexte fin de siècle où la conférence est un divertissement particulièrement prisé, Muhlfeld va, avec sa conférence, tenter de produire une forme qui lui permettrait de contester les modèles divertissants de la conférence et du théâtre dominant tout en un. …”
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A shift in time: music and temporality in 1913 Paris by Davies, EA

“…Rapid social, cultural and technological change affected the perception and experience of temporality in <em>fin de siècle</em> Paris. The year 1913 offers a fascinating case study for understanding the plethora of cultural and musical reactions to these changes. …”

Beautiful souls mixed up with hooked noses: Art, degeneration, and anti-semitism in the master and trilby by Mendelssohn, M

“…On the rare occasions it has been touched upon, it has most often been subsumed under the banner of fin-de-siècle anti-Semitism or connected to Du Maurier's anti-Aestheticism. …”

Misoginia estética en el «Art Nouveau». El miedo a la mujer nueva en la sociedad de «Fin-de-Siglo»: de la Salomé de Huysmans a la Lulú de Wedekind by José María Seco Martínez

“…A esta eclosión intelectual y cultural se la conoce bajo la expresión “fin de siècle” y está asociado a las corrientes esteticistas, influidas por la filosofía nietzscheana, que se agruparán bajo la expresión “art noveau”; corrientes diversas entre sí pero coincidentes en su actitud discriminatoria hacia las mujeres. …”
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TECNOANTRHOPOS O EL TRABAJADOR-SOLDADO GUERRA, TÉCNICA Y DOMESTICACIÓN HUMANA EN LA OBRA DE ERNST JÜNGER (1920-1933) by Diego P. Roldán

“…Se auscultará la tradición del pensamiento alemán fin de siècle, buscando comprender su relación con las transformaciones económicas, sociales y políticas que embargaron a Alemania entre fines del siglo XIX, pasando por la experiencia de la Primera Guerra Mundial y la desintegración de la República de Weimar. …”
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The Coloniality of Law in Peru:Legal Positivism, Rape & Racialized Morality in Early Twentieth-Century Courts by Laura Bunt-MacRury

“…Conclusions: Expanding the arguments of imminent Andean scholars of postcolonialism, I argue that the ‘coloniality of law’ in Peru is illuminated by the collusion of legal positivism and fin de siècle racial ideologies that created a new subjectivity for women. …”
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The composer and musical identities in nineteenth-century fiction by Roskams, V

“…They reveal fiction’s dialogue with ideas about the composer, from Romantic beginnings which exalted the composer as an artist, to fin-de-siècle fears about the composer as a mad, dangerous genius. …”

Marlowe and monarchy by May, S

“…<p>Focusing on the works of Christopher Marlowe (1564-93), this thesis explores the complex engagement of popular drama with the political and religious writing of the Elizabethan <em>fin de siècle</em>. It focuses on the five plays by Marlowe that feature royal protagonists: <em>1-2 Tamburlaine</em> (1587), <em>Dido, Queen of Carthage</em> (1588), <em>Edward II</em> (1592), and <em>The Massacre at Paris</em> (1593). …”

Masculinity and the other in Belle Époque opera by Kavanagh, E

“…</p> <p>Through an examination of seven case studies, my thesis argues for a multivalent understanding of operatic masculinity in Paris at the <i>fin de siècle</i>, which existed in dialogue with the prevailing social discourse and the sense of manhood in “crisis”. …”

CANON OR NOT CANON: THE CURIOUS CASE OF MICHAEL FIELD by Dijana D. Tica

“…Finally, the first two decades of the twenty-first century confirmed the resurgence of interest in Michael Field, with critics such as Marion Thain and Ana Parejo Vadillo exploring this poetic duo within the wider context of fin-de-siècle literature. This paper will delve into various possible reasons why Bradley and Cooper, in spite of early positive reviews and the recognition of some literary greats of their age, were never granted a place among canonical British writers. …”
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From Exquisite to Transgressive Moderns? The Goncourt's "Decadent" Eighteenth-Century Art Revival by Juliet Simpson

“…This article, however, explores a less welldocumented aspect of their L'Art du dix-huitième siècle (1858-1875): that is, its articulation of an art of latency and decadence prior to the term's fin-de-siècle association with explicitly transgressive cultures of modernity. …”
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Fichas by Andrés G. Freijomil, Ezequiel Saferstein, Gabriel Entin, Ezequiel Grisendi, Ximena Espeche, Flavia Fiorucci, Natalia Milne, Ricardo Martínez Mazzola, Daniela Szpilbarg

“…Essays on literary culture and public debate / Alejandra Uslenghi, Latin America at the Fin-de-Siècle Universal Exhibitions. Modern Cultures of Visuality Karina R. …”
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The Intertextual Game in Ulitskaya’s Novel Medea and Her Children by Natalia Kovtun

“…The typology of female images is constructed on the gender stereotypes of the fin de siècle era: the woman as a sexual object (Gypsy, wanton); femme fatale/vamp (Amazonian, Salomé); and the romantic lover and muse (Madonna, the eternal feminine). …”
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“Your Letters are as Cordial as a Friend’s Handshake” (Correspondence between André Gide and Fyodor Rosenberg) by Kirill A. Chekalov

“…This letters allow to contemplate the spiritual world of two outstanding cultural figures of the fin de siècle, as well as to see once again how the revolution in Russia influenced the mindset and the way of life of academic life. …”
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Byzantinism and Rationality: Julien Benda and Constantine Tsatsos by George Arabatzis

“…This article examines the concept of Byzantinism that Julien Benda employed in his book La France Byzantine. In the fin-de-siècle European sensibility, Byzantinism was transferred from political to literary level, but Benda created an epistemological break when he asserted in his book that Byzantinism is literature in its normal function. …”
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PROBLEM OF A RATIO OF THE POINTS OF VIEW IN THE NOVEL “FOMA GORDEYEV” BY MAXIM GORKY

“…This inclusion in the Fin de siècle era, time of the overall overturn and of the new judgement of many concepts could be used in connection with unwillingness of Maxim Gorky’s open expression of his author’s opinion. …”
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Sensibilidade rara ou a estética do estrangeiro. Variações sobre a <i>Autobiografía</i> e <i>Oro de Mallorca</i> de Rubén Darío by Sofia A. Carvalho

“…Our frst aim is to undertake an hermeneutic intersection between contemporary autobiographical literature and Rubén Darío’s poetry of the end of century (fin-de-siècle). Thereafter, we will examine the fctional character of the “self ” as an exegetical category that enables a direct access, not only to the individuated construction of the bard’s rare sensitivity, but mainly to the aesthetic experience of similar attitudes accompanying him and constitute what we propose to denominate as an “aesthetic of the foreign”. …”
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Ferdynand Ruszczyc: A Polish Painter at the Crossroads of Cultures by Agnieszka Rosales Rodríguez

“…The oeuvre of beloved Polish painter Ferdynand Ruszczyc (1870–1936) reflected the patriotic Neo-Romantic landscape trend of the fin-de-siècle prevalent in Germany and the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden). …”
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La difícil identidad de España. Historia y política en el cambio de milenio by Walther L. Bernecker, Sören Brinkmann

“…La novedad residía únicamente en la representación de la época, en tanto que, en muchos de los actos conmemorativos dirigidos a un público amplio, era fácilmente reconocible la intención de transformar ese Fin de Siècle tan crítico para España en un período idílico, en una Belle Epoque española. …”
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