The Symbolist Movement: Anarchism and the Avant-Garde in Fin de Siècle France

2019 ◽  
pp. 13-36
Keyword(s):  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Fin De Siècle

Theatre in the Provinces at the Fin de Siècle: Beyond Outcast London

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jo Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Performance Culture ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines the relationship between performance culture in two regional cities in the British Midlands—Nottingham and Birmingham—as compared to that in the metropolis, London. It compares reactions to plays by Ibsen and Pinero in these locales, providing evidence to suggest that regional audiences were knowledgeable about London culture, and that they were less shocked by avant-garde theatre than might be assumed.

Symons, Arthur William (1865–1945)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kostas Boyiopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
French Symbolism ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Story Writer

Arthur Symons was a British poet, art and literary critic, memoirist, playwright, short story writer, and editor. He was born in Milford Haven, Wales, on 28 February 1865, the son of Cornish parents: Reverend Mark Symons (1824–1898), a Wesleyan Methodist minister, and Lydia Pascoe (1828–1896). Symons was the foremost exponent of Decadence and the leading promoter of French Symbolism in Britain. An enthused socialite, he manoeuvred successfully through London artistic circles and the Paris avant-garde. In 1901 he married Rhoda Bowser (1874–-1936) and in his later years he retreated to Island Cottage, Wittersham, Kent. In 1908–1910 he suffered a mental collapse in Italy, moving in and out of asylums; he chronicles this experience in Confessions: A Study in Pathology (1930). He recovered and resumed his literary career until his seventies, mainly regurgitating themes of his fin-de-siècle period. He died on 22 January 1945.

When a Bestselling Author and a West End Actress Made a Spiritualist Performance: Collaboration, Networks and Theatre at the Fin de Siècle

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Hindson
Keyword(s):  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Collaboration Networks ◽  
Theatrical Production ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Celebrity Culture ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Leisure Industry ◽  
Theatrical Culture

This chapter offers a detailed reconstruction of the performance of a piece of avant-garde drama to highlights the prominent role of women in theatrical culture at the time, as both dramatists and actresses, and the professional opportunities that were then opening for them. It also shows the importance of a growing celebrity culture, and the complexity of the interactions between theatre, politics, religion, gender and theatrical production. It shows that even avant-garde theatre, concerned with such archetypal fin-de-siècle concerns as the occult and mysticism, were still deeply implicated in, and made possible by, a growing leisure industry.

scholarly journals L’Écho des jeunes  : Une avant‑garde inachevée

2006 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 21-50
Author(s):  
Michel Pierssens ◽  
Roberto Benardi
Keyword(s):  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Xixe Siecle ◽  
Xixe Siècle

Résumé La fin du XIXe siècle a connu, au Canada comme en Europe, une floraison de revues littéraires, parmi lesquelles L'Écho des Jeunes, publié à Montréal, se distingue par son éclectisme et sa modernité. Cette revue est la création d'un groupe de jeunes qui, depuis la petite municipalité de Sainte-Cunégonde, noue des rapports étroits avec une partie de l'avant-garde française contemporaine. Elle s'efforcera pendant quelques années d'imposer un ton nouveau, entre décadence et symbolisme, parmi les jeunes poètes canadiens-français, juste avant la création de l'École littéraire de Montréal, dont beaucoup de ses collaborateurs deviendront membres. L'écho des Jeunes réussit à donner une expression convaincante de l'esprit fin de siècle répandu dans de petits milieux montréalais très originaux, trop négligés par l'histoire littéraire.

Little Excursions Outside the Avant-Garde: the Pageant, the Parade and the Dome

2018 ◽  
pp. 186-219
Author(s):  
Koenraad Claes
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Design ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Total Work ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Little Magazines ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Similar Content ◽  
Gift Book

Publicity for the British Fin-de-Siècle avant-garde peaked around the middle of the 1890s with the appearance of the Yellow Book and the Savoy (see Chapter 4), but even afterwards its integrated design aesthetic continued to exert an explicit influence. Significantly, it can be discerned in a number of periodicals that feature similar content and many of the same contributors as less compromising little magazines, but that had given up on the avant-garde position that these little magazines had so insistently claimed. Chapter 6 shows how the coterie responsible for the small-scale Dial (see Chapter 3) moved on to broadly marketed publications such as the Pageant (1896–97) and the children’s gift book Parade (1897) that both imported into the Aestheticist format aspects of the decidedly mainstream gift book genre, or the Dome (1897–1900) that presented itself as an insider’s alternative to the most commercially successful art magazines of its period. All three publications relativised the former vanguardist strategy of their producers through their contents as well as through their presentation, and even questioned the validity of the purist doctrines that only a few years before were deemed essential, including that of the Total Work of Art.

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