A History of Russian Symbolism (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Avril Pyman
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Literary history; literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Culture, France or French people, Europe or Europeans, Literature, Art or artists, Alienation, Poetry or poets, Russia or Russian people, Signs or symbols
In Century’s End: A Cultural History of the Fin de Siècle from the 990s to the 1990s (1990), Hillel Schwartz tells us that the phrase fin de siècle made its “popular debut” in France late in 1885. From France it spread rapidly throughout Europe and even to the United States, so that by 1891 an Atlantic Monthly contributor was complaining that “Everywhere we are treated to dissertations on fin-de-siècle literature, fin-de-siècle statesmanship, fin-de-siècle morality.”
The fin de siècle was protean in its aspects. Seen from one perspective, the...
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