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- Title
Arthur Symons's Impressionist Epistemology: Decadence and Embodied Cognition.
- Authors
Thain, Marion
- Abstract
If Decadent poetry is "one of the most comprehensive modern attempts to turn sex into epistemology," how might ideas of embodied cognition help us understand what that might mean? This article responds to that question with an analysis of an Impressionist, erotic epistemology in Arthur Symons work. Focusing on London Nights (1897), which considers questions of erotic epistemology, it is argued that Impressionist techniques become a vehicle in his poetry for exploring cognition, Impressionism becoming a key mode of Decadent apprehension and a crucial means for questioning Decadent epistemologies. Embodied cognition theory expands our understanding of both the possibilities and conceptual contexts of Impressionism within a literary historical context. [109 words]
- Subjects
THEORY of knowledge in literature; DECADENCE in literature; DECADENCE (Literary movement); COGNITION in literature; POETRY (Literary form); LONDON Nights (Book); SYMONS, Arthur, 1865-1945; VICTORIAN (Literary period); MODERNISM (Literary period); EARLY Modern Period (Literary period); 16TH century (Literary period)
- Publication
English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, 2020, Vol 63, Issue 1, p48
- ISSN
0013-8339
- Publication type
Article