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  2. Dandy - Wikipedia

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    The Dandy King: Joachim Murat, the French King of Naples. Regarding the existence and the political and cultural functions of the dandy in a society, in the essay L'Homme révolté (1951), Albert Camus said that: The dandy creates his own unity by aesthetic means. But it is an aesthetic of negation.

  3. Decadent movement - Wikipedia

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    From the Decadent movement he learned the basic idea of a dandy, and his work is almost entirely focused on developing a philosophy in which the Dandy is the consummate human, surrounded by riches and elegance, theoretically above society, just as doomed to death and despair as they.

  4. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...

  5. List of literary movements - Wikipedia

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    Literary movements are a way to divide literature into categories of similar philosophical, topical, or aesthetic features, as opposed to divisions by genre or period. Like other categorizations, literary movements provide language for comparing and discussing literary works.

  6. List of fictional antiheroes - Wikipedia

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    Dandy Space Dandy [257] Dynamight / Katsuki Bakugo: My Hero Academia: 2014–present [279] Endeavor / Enji Todoroki Lady Nagant [273] McGillis Fareed Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans: 2015—2017 [263] Angelo Lagusa 91 Days: 2016 [268] William James Moriarty Moriarty the Patriot: 2016–present Tanya Degurechaff The Saga of Tanya the ...

  7. Flâneur - Wikipedia

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    David Harvey asserts that "Baudelaire would be torn the rest of his life between the stances of flâneur and dandy, a disengaged and cynical voyeur on the one hand, and man of the people who enters into the life of his subjects with passion on the other". [22] The observer–participant dialectic is evidenced in part by the dandy culture ...

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  9. List of English words with dual French and Old English ...

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    The meaning of the small bloodsucking creature coexisted with the meaning of physician. The former is still used today. lich corpse lich liss relief liss reave: rob reave Today found mostly in "Reaver", meaning robber or highwayman. rime: number rime ruth pity ruth Usage persists to a greater degree in "Ruthless" and to a lesser degree "Ruthful".