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The decadence


Definition of the term "decadence" and the origin

The term 'decadent "was originally negative. It was in fact directed polemically against some poets who expressed the loss of consciousness and the crisis of values \u200b\u200bof the time, feeling, beyond the official optimism and often hypocritical society, the failure of the positivist dream .
But these writers made the definition of a controversy teaches wrestling, where it flows, in fact, the foundations of a new world view and of a new reality. They had the realization of living age of transformation and transition , the writers felt short of the crisis, and warned that their task was not to propose new certainties, but to study the terms of this existential crisis on a cognitive level.

LITERARY MOVEMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE LOSS
The Decadent is a complex phenomenon in its multi-purpose theme in his artistic work in its true and false values, so there is, as in Romanticism and Naturalism in , a poetics that face a common reference point to changes in individual experiences. We have rather different directions of research, the proliferation of poetry, which can in part bind to two cultural movements of European literature: the symbolism

el ' aestheticism

. Even in Italy you can not find a unifying literary movement, but rather poetic individual Italians refer to the myths: that of the "superman " in D'Annunzio, the "little boy " in Pascoli - A reaction to these myths, heroic affirmation of the self, is represented by the poetry of crepuscular Italian that follow the themes of French decadence. unites these research experiences new means of expression, rejection of the positivist culture and the rejection of contemporary society, often aristocratic in what it has to routine, the common ethical values \u200b\u200bcommon to ground level. decadence is also due to the birth of the avant-garde , ie movements despite great diversity of poetry, aimed at testing new techniques of expression that, by moving all irrational premises, will mark a radical break with the past and are heading and evidence of awareness of the crisis. It 'an explosion that lasts pretty much until the 30's and includes the so-called "historical avant-garde": THE FUTURE, Expressionism, Dadaism, Surrealism.

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