「사자들을 위한 제단」과 데까당스
“The Altar of the Dead” and Decadence
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This paper purports to analyze “The Altar of the Dead”(1895) as a tale reflecting the British Decadence of the 1890s. It has been praised high as one of the trilogy of Henry James’s late tales. But some critics say that this tale is a great failure because of its “morbid sentimentality”, “unpleasantness”, and “creepiness”, which are directly or indirectly related to the Decadent sensibility. Some elements of the decadent sensibility can be traced in this work. George Stransom makes an “immense escape from the actual” which is disparaged as ‘the ordinary routine world’ by the Decadents. Stransom's escape into his inner world and making it an artistic whole by setting up “The Altar of the Dead” are the same traits as those of Des Esseintes in J. K. Huysmans’s A rebours. Stransom confuses moral problems with aesthetic ones and finally replaces the one with the other as Marius does in Marius the Epicurean, Water Pater’s philosophical novel . In conclusion, Stransom’s Decadent sensibility causes him to fail in loving his partner fully in the actual world. Thus, this tale actually comes to be a morbid sentimental elegy of his death.
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This paper purports to analyze “The Altar of the Dead”(1895) as a tale reflecting the British Decadence of the 1890s. It has been praised high as one of the trilogy of Henry James’s late tales. But some critics say that this tale is a great failure because of its “morbid sentimentality”, “unpleasantness”, and “creepiness”, which are directly or indirectly related to the Decadent sensibility. Some elements of the decadent sensibility can be traced in this work. George Stransom makes an “immense escape from the actual” which is disparaged as ‘the ordinary routine world’ by the Decadents. Stransom's escape into his inner world and making it an artistic whole by setting up “The Altar of the Dead” are the same traits as those of Des Esseintes in J. K. Huysmans’s A rebours. Stransom confuses moral problems with aesthetic ones and finally replaces the one with the other as Marius does in Marius the Epicurean, Water Pater’s philosophical novel . In conclusion, Stransom’s Decadent sensibility causes him to fail in loving his partner fully in the actual world. Thus, this tale actually comes to be a morbid sentimental elegy of his death.
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