Glorious decadence : time and identity of Rio de Janeiro after 1889
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This work examines the relationship to time in the identity creation of Rio de Janeiro after 1889 by undertaking an in-depth analysis of architecture and literature. Following the republican revolution in that year, dominant discourses of "progress" and "the future" came to play a vital role in justifying and promoting urban development, a situation that is again relevant as the city prepares for the 2016 Olympic Games. At the same time, the characteristic of nostalgia has become a consistently fundamental feature of the lived experience of the city. Within that tension between, broadly, the past and the future, I see the aesthetic of decadence -- rethought to refer to dislocation, incompleteness, and melancholy -- as a dominant, and appealing, aspect of the city and which lends it its glorious appeal. Through looking at specific examples from architecture and literature between the revolution and today, I place contemporary Rio de Janeiro in its ongoing historical continuum and explore how the aesthetic of decadence is vital to the city's unique temporality and its idiosyncratic identity.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Winterbottom, Michael Tom |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures. |
| Primary advisor | Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich |
| Primary advisor | Rocha, Marília Librandi |
| Thesis advisor | Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich |
| Thesis advisor | Rocha, Marília Librandi |
| Thesis advisor | Resina, Joan Ramon |
| Thesis advisor | Ruffinelli, Jorge |
| Advisor | Resina, Joan Ramon |
| Advisor | Ruffinelli, Jorge |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Michael Tom Winterbottom. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2015. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2015 by Michael Tom Winterbottom
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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