David Weir (; born 1947) is an American scholar who has written widely on the

Decadent movement The Decadent movement (Fr. ''décadence'', “decay”) was a late-19th-century artistic and literary movement, centered in Western Europe, that followed an aesthetic ideology of excess and artificiality. The Decadent movement first flourishe ...

in literature and its impact in America. Weir is Associate Professor on the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (Cooper Union) is a private college at Cooper Square in New York City. Peter Cooper founded the institution in 1859 after learning about the government-supported École Polytechnique in ...

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Decadence and the Making of Modernism
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James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of ...

and the Art of Mediation'' (1996) * '' Anarchy and Culture (Critical Perspectives on Modern Culture)'' (1997) * ''

Brahma Brahma ( sa, ब्रह्मा, Brahmā) is a Hindu god, referred to as "the Creator" within the Trimurti, the trinity of supreme divinity that includes Vishnu, and Shiva.Jan Gonda (1969)The Hindu Trinity Anthropos, Bd 63/64, H 1/2, pp. 21 ...

in the West:

William Blake William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. ...

and the Oriental Renaissance'' (2003) * ''Decadent Culture in the United States: Art and Literature Against the American Grain, 1890-1926'' (2009) * ''American Orient: Imagining the East from the Colonial Era Through the Twentieth Century'' (2011)

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