Decadence in Literature and Intellectual Debate since 1945

Chapter 1 On the Notion of Decadence in the FRG and France after 1945—with Examples by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Botho Strauß, and Richard Millet

Chapter 2 “In the very quick of the nightmare”: Decadence and Mystics of Wilderness in Henry Miller’s Cultural Criticism of Modernity

Chapter 3 The Function of Decadence and Ascendance in Analytic Philosophy

Chapter 4 Progress and Decadence—Poststructuralism as Progressivism

Chapter 5 The Concept of Decadence as Ideological and Law Enforcement Category in the GDR

Chapter 6 Joual en stock : The Controversial Issue of Language Quality and Autochthonous Standardization in Quebec

Chapter 7 Michelangelo Antonioni’s Early “Trilogy of Decadence”: L’avventura (1960), La notte (1961), L’eclisse (1962)

Chapter 8 Houellebecq’s Fin de Siècle: Crisis of Society, Crisis of the Novel—Thematic and Poetological Intertextuality between Michel Houellebecq and Joris-Karl Huysmans

Chapter 9 The Shadow of Decadence: The Latin American Boom and the Taboo of the Spanish Novel of the Democratic Period

Chapter 10 Exile and Writing: Alfredo Bryce Echenique and the Decadence of the Myth of Paris

Chapter 11 Tradition, (Post)Modernity, and Decadence in Vargas Llosa’s Lituma en los Andes and Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto