Decadent Literature in Twentieth-Century Japan - I. Amano - Google Books

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Decadence is a concept that designates a given historical moment as a phase of decay and valorizes the past as an irretrievable golden age. This study offers an innovative examination of a century of Japanese fiction through the analytical prism of…