Vol. 4 No. 2 (2021): Decadence and Performance

Articles

• Preface

  Jane Desmarais

  i

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• Carnal Acts: Decadence in Theatre, Performance and Live Art

  Adam Alston

  ii-xxiii

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• Wasted Youth and Reunion in Death: Imperial Decline and Decadent Aesthetics in Fin-de-Siècle Ottoman Culture

  Özen Nergis Dolcerocca

  1-18

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• Women, Morality and Materiality: Performing Transgression Through Dress and Décor in Fin de Siècle Theatre

  Barbara Bessac

  19-37

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• Decadent Historicism on Stage: Trans History and Alexander Sacharoff’s Renaissance Dances

  Franke Dytor

  38-63

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• Intermediality and decadent performance in Anita Berber and Sebastian Droste’s Die Tänze des Lasters, des Grauens und der Ekstase (1923)

  Katharina Herold-Zanker

  64-88

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• Visions of Phantasm: Madame de Sade in the Excess of Language and Imagination

  Ikuho Amano

  89-105

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• ‘That Melancholy Fiend’: Charles Ludlam’s Bluebeard and the Horrific City

  Stephen Cedars

  106-129

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• Survival of the sickest: On decadence, disease and the performing body

  Adam Alston

  130-156

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• Symbolism, Empire, and the Dance: On Sarojini Naidu’s ‘Eastern Dancers’ and Arthur Symons’s ‘Javanese Dancers’

  Cherrie Kwok

  157-171

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• ‘We Must Find Out If We Are Still Alive!’: Sex Apocalypse and How to Survive It in La Messe dorée

  David Melville

  172-194

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• Isabelle Eberhardt, ‘Infernalia: Sepulchral Pleasure’ (1895): A New Translation

  Céline Brossillon

  195-202

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• Review: Jake Elwes, The Zizi Show – A Deepfake Drag Cabaret (Edinburgh: The New Real, Edinburgh Futures Institute, 2020)

  Owen G. Parry

  203-207

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• Review: Life: LIVE!, by Lucy McCormick, Fierce Festival, Birmingham (UK), 19 October 2019

  Phoebe Patey-Ferguson

  208-215

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• Letter to the Editors: That Doggone Baudelaire

  David Weir

  216-218

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• Notes on Contributors

  Volupté Journal

  219-222

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• Decadence and Performance: Full Issue

  Adam Alston, Alexandra Bickley Trott

  i-222

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