Special issue on literary decadence of the journal Keel ja Kirjandus

Keel ja Kirjandus. Kirjanduslik dekadents [Literary decadence], 2024, 1-2. The special issue with English abstracts is available here.

 

Table of contents

Mirjam Hinrikus, Jaan Undusk
Decadence as the aesthetics of ambivalences
Fusions and syntheses

Daniele Monticelli
Filtered decadence
The translation and reception of Gabriele D’Annunzio in the early 20th century Estonian culture

Kaia Sisask
Guy De Maupassant’s short stories in Estonia in the early 20th century
Translations and reception through the lens of decadence

Leo Luks
Waning sex beyond good and evil
Friedrich Nietzsche’s vital affects in the distorting mirror of Jaan Oks’ works

Kristjan Haljak
Dark temples brimming with sweetness from the shared impulse of all living things
Jaan Oks’ subject in process

Mirjam Hinrikus, Merlin Kirikal
Decadence and life
Nietzschean-Bergsonian aesthetics of movement and flow in the early prose of Tammsaare and Semper

Aare Pilv
On the aestheticist roots of the intellectual Left in the first half of the 20th century

Rebekka Lotman
Estonian decadent sonnet

Tanel Lepsoo
Decadence in the theatrical situation on the example of Oscar Wilde’s “Salomé”

Märt Väljataga
Soviet Estonian decadence