See also Peng Hsiao-yen, "
Dandyism and Border Crossing: Gender, Language, and Travel in NeoSensationism," Bulletin of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy 28 (2006:03): 121-148.
In Paris-Presse, Louis Pauwels deplores their
dandyism, and his article brings about a survey on the same subject in Arts issue #554 (8-14 February 1956).
For these writers, Tennyson's fussy antiquarianism or "literary
dandyism" suggested an unwillingness to take up the mantle of public poet, to move beyond his Cambridge coterie and address the "men and women of England." Critical commentary has often affirmed the views of early critics like Hunt, reducing Tennyson's framing fictions, and indeed his dramatizations in general, to the level of an anxiety, the sign of an unfixable relationship between poet and reader.
Both the negative and positive meanings of decadence, as well as of
dandyism and aestheticism, are key to "understanding of Aschenbach's departure from his bourgeois existence" (Mundt 89).
The latter work would undoubtedly be another promising locus for investigating the composer's musical
dandyism, but it receives only a passing mention here (95).
camp is the modern
dandyism. Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture.
International contributors in English, history, and theater explore topics such as Moore Hall during the famine, Moore's Dana controversy, Moore and Hemingway, the
dandyism of George Moore, and Moore's use of the romantic epiphany in his Victorian novels.
There is a magnificent picture of Wilde in James Sherwood's beautifully turned-out book, itself the epitome of
dandyism in the publishing trade.
"Hip-hop gave me a certain view of masculinity," he said, "which I think has made it difficult for me to be into the kind of
dandyism that some of my peers are into." Buying slacks after years of wearing jeans, Guy said, "made me confront my identity." Guy, now 33, left hip-hop behind, both in his style and his soundtrack, but plenty of his generation didn't, including Dao-Yi Chow of Public School and Ouigi Theodore of the Brooklyn Circus, two designers of more traditional men's clothing still eager to preserve the hip-hop spirit of their younger years.
Although frequently not defined in dictionaries, kitsch and camp are typically used to describe an overly mannered style of superficiality, mock-glamorousness,
dandyism, marginality and trivia.
Among these elements are his Galician cultural and anthropological roots, his reception of contemporary thought and philosophy, an aesthetic with a very strong visual ads and theatrical framework, a concepdun of the occupation of writing as a space conducive to intertextuality and as a permanent exercise of revisiting foreign texts and of rewriting own texts, and, ultimately, an attempt to intervene and to be noticed in the public sphere, for which purpose he not only cultivated a provocative attitude towards society and power (
dandyism, rebellion, mannerisms ...) but also assumed numerous artistic and civil risks, and not just in his early years.