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Decadence
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: David Weir
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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David Weir explores the conflicting attitudes towards modernity present in decadent culture by examining the difference between aesthetic decadence - the excess of artifice - and social decadence, which involves excess in a variety of forms, whether perversely pleasurable or gratuitously cruel. Such contrariness between aesthetic and social decadence led some of its practitioners to substitute art for life and to stress the importance of taste over morality, a maneuver with far-reaching consequences.
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Decadence
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 14-08-2018
- Language: English
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Bohemians
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: David Weir
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
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The Romantic myth of Bohemia originated in the early nineteenth century as a way of describing the new conditions faced by artists and writers when the previous system of aristocratic patronage collapsed in the wake of the Age of Revolution. Without the patron system, the artist was free to move around, to seek an audience wherever fortune beckoned. This marketing model likening the artist's vagabond career to the "gypsy" life helps to explain part of the bohemian myth, but not all of it. This Very Short Introduction traces the myth of Bohemia through its various fictional manifestations.
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Bohemians
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 30-05-2023
- Language: English
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