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Vol. 177 (2023)

Realism and Decadence as a “Contagion” in 19th-Century Discourse on Contemporary Literature

Jana Vrajová

Pages: 149-155

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is not to analyze the thematization of diseases (whether specific or general) or contagion expressed in literary form, but to explore the ways in which the discourse of contemporary literary criticism applied imagery associated with disease to descriptions of shifting literary norms in conjunction with changing cultural and social paradigms of the time.

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Vrajová, J. (2022). Realism and Decadence as a “Contagion” in 19th-Century Discourse on Contemporary Literature. Slavica Wratislaviensia, 177, 149–155. https://doi.org/10.19195/0137-1150.177.13