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Jan Opolsky has primarily been viewed as an undistinguished hanger-on in the era of Czech literary decadence. Through close reading and detailed analysis of Opolsky's prose, however, Peter Butler argues that, far from his reputation as a literary lackey, Opolsky is a master of sustained narrative irony and an accomplished writer in his own right. Beyond Decadence evaluates archival sources and private correspondence between Opolsky and other literary figures, and includes a classified bibliography of Opolsky's work. Butler's introduction, meanwhile, offers an overview of the Czech decadent/symbolist literary and artistic movements, placing them within a larger European perspective. Redeeming a literary artist who has been nearly forgotten in the English-speaking world, Beyond Decadence will be of particular interest to students of Slavic and European literary history.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Beyond Decadence
• Subtitle: Exposing the Narrative Irony in Jan Opolsky's Prose
• Author: Peter Butler
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300
• EAN: 9788024625713
• ISBN: 8024625717
• ID: 09247728
• Publisher: Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic
• Weight: 428 g
• Dimensions: 264 × 169 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. January 2016

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