Refiguração do tempo histórico pela ficção by José Antonio Segatto, Maria Célia Leonel

“…It represents the historical saga of the decadence of a social category (a part of the dominant class), personified by the family Assumpção, its ethical and cultural values, its world conceptions and its behavior. …”
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Unité chrétienne menacée et justification des actions des croisés : représentation et fonction des hérésies dans la Grant estoria de Ultramar by Julia Roumier

“…The imperative of the Crusades is based on the assertion of the weakness and decadence of the Christian world and the recalling of the councils along the route of the Crusaders underlines the threat of internal divisions and the need to punish heretics.…”
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Memories of “wretched eminent things” (5.5.113): Remembrance and Posterity in John Webster’s Duchess of Malfi (1613–1614). by Louis André

“…This article will question this relationship between death and memory in Webster’s Duchess of Malfi: with its plethora of memento mori images and discourses on posterity, isn’t memory a form of vain illusion, pertaining to the luxury and decadence of the aristocracy? If so, why is the Duchess rewarded with posterity, while her enemies are killed in secret and end up forgotten?…”
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« Culture for the million, or society as it may be » by Françoise Baillet

“…When in the late nineteenth century Aestheticism slowly lost ground to the Arts and Crafts Movement and then to Decadence and Art Nouveau, the Victorian artistic field had considerably evolved. …”
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Revisões da masculinidade sob ditadura: Gabeira, Caio e Noll by Idelber Avelar

“…In Brasil the Abertura period coincided with the consolidation of the gay movement, divorce laws, the beginning of the massive incorporation of middle- class women to the wage labor force, increasing visibility of transvestites, and overall the marked decadence of the ideal man promoted by the military regime. …”
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Portrait de l’artiste en jeune femme : Wormwood (1890) de Marie Corelli by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas

“…In this novel, Corelli’s main character is an absintheur, and the plot unravels in Paris where decadent artists indulge in drugs. France then becomes an apt screen on which to project fin-de-siècle anxieties and to denounce immorality. …”
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The Mustachioed Woman, or The Problem of Androgyny in Victoria Cross’ Six Chapters of a Man’s Life by Ana Raquel Rojas

“…Cross first published an excerpt from this novel in the Decadent journal The Yellow Book, and titled the short-story “Theodora, a Fragment,” which has been reprinted in Elaine Showalter’s anthology Daughters of Decadence. …”
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Ramiro Ledesma Ramos: años de literatura (1924-1930) by José-Carlos Mainer

“…His coetaneous essay "El Quijote y nuestro tiempo" ("Quixote and our times"), presents a vision of the Cervantine Novel as a permanent fight against frustration and decadence. In the works of 1928-1930 years, although, the interest in philosophy prevails and the influence of the Unamuno's agonic pessimism is replaced by the willful and more tending towards political action philosophy of Ortega y Gasset.…”
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Dynamitage cocasse de l’anthropomorphisme dans quelques satires contemporaines by Laetitia Pasquet

“…The plays by Steven Berkoff (Decadence - 1981), Gregory Motton (Cat and Mouse Sheep – 1998), Caryl Churchill (Far Away - 2001) and the 2008 mime show by Geoff Sobelle and Charlotte Ford (Flesh and Blood & Fish and Fowl) all illustrate this shift in satirical anthropomorphism. …”
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The Pre-colonial Yoruba Education System: Catalyst Against Immorality by Layo Ogunlola

“…The paper concludes that if the formal education system can prioritize moral training by tailoring the curriculum towards this objective, the problem of high moral decadence level currently ravaging our various societies may continue and this will not do the societies any good. …”
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A Mamluk Bey in London: Muhammad Bey El-Elfî (October-December 1803) by Selda GÜNER

“…This study aims to explain that after the Napoleonic invasion of Egypt, the decadence of Mamluk Beys the traditional actors in the Egyptian domestic politics, and one of them, Muhammad Bey el-Elfî’s solution seeking in London. …”
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YOUTHS PROTEST IN NIGERIA: THE ENDSARS IN PERSPECTIVE by Felix Ikalewumi

“…The paper argues that the protest is more of reflection of the societal decadence emanated from poor governance that had encapsulated the country for long than the behaviours of Special Anti –Robbery Squad (SARs) operative that ignited it. …”
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RESPONSES OF MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES TO POOR INFRASTRUCTURE IN GOMBE METROPOLIS, NORTH EAST NIGERIA, 1963-2013 by UMAR ZUBAIRU, MISBAHU SA’IDU

“…It is against this backdrop that this paper interrogates the responses of manufacturing firms to infrastructure decadence within the context of Gombe metropolis in North East Nigeria. …”
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Parodies de dandies : travestissement et transgression des genres au music-hall by Catherine Rovera

“…Why did some Victorian and Edwardian music-hall acts, namely the swell song and male impersonations, choose the dandy, of all cultural icons, to debunk it as a symbol of decadence, and what was the part played by female artists in this exposure ? …”
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“Le Tétraque se perdait dans un rêve”: Concordance between Flaubert’s Hérodias and Hérodiade by Milliet, Grémont and Massenet by Clair Rowden

“…In this light, Massenet’s opera provides a dance scene that moves beyond the traditional voyeurism of Salomé’s dance to provide an erotic, even pornographic scene, despite and due to the absence of a dancer, which evokes Third-Republican concerns – onanism, sterility, depopulation and decadence – as part of the opera’s wider exploration of the place of religion and moral philosophy in society, both ancient and modern.…”
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Accelerated Permafrost Thaw Linked to Rising River Temperature and Widening Channels by Yi Zhao, Dongfeng Li

“…Consequently, the permafrost beneath rivers warms faster (0.37°C–0.66°C/decade) and has a ∼0.5 m thicker active layer than non‐inundated permafrost (0.17°C–0.49°C/decade). …”
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Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Variations of the Average Snow Cover During the Cold Seasons in the Northwest of Iran by Seyed Hossein Mirmousavi, Zahra Heidari Monfared

“…The amount of precipitation in the 99th percentile has increased significantly during the last decade under study, and this has caused the snow cover to increase relatively compared to the first to third decades, although in general, the amount of snow cover In the whole area of the northwest, there has been a noticeable decrease during the last four decades.…”
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The Growth of Christianity in China May Have Come to an End by Conrad Hackett, Yunping Tong

“…Christianity in China grew rapidly in the decades following the end of the Cultural Revolution. …”
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DINÁMICA DEL PAISAJE AGRARIO DE SAN PATRICIO DEL CHAÑAR (NEUQUÉN, ARGENTINA) A TRAVÉS DE IMÁGENES SATELITALES by Florencia G. Finessi, Damián Groch

“…Satellite information is used to analyse how agricultural elements of this landscape have changed in the past decade. This allowed to recognize natural zones, its influences in social land use development and the organization process that has taken place during the final decades of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21th century.…”
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Development potential of multi-cropping systems and its influence on agricultural water consumption in the Huang–Huai–Hai River Basin of China by Linghui Li, Qingming Wang, Yong Zhao, Jiaqi Zhai, Haihong Li, Shuying Han, Lichuan Wang, Yunpeng Gui

“…The duration of the accumulated temperature above 10°C have prolonged at a rate of 5.2 days decade–1, which shortened the length of growth season (LOS) of the single CS, double CS, triple CS and triple in two years CS by 1.2 days decade–1, 0.8 days decade–1, 2.3 days decade–1, and 0.2 days decade–1, respectively. …”
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