http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/decadent-texts Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:23:07 -0400 Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:23:07 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/338/memoirs-and-confessions-the-hybrid-form-of-decadent-texts By Jeremy S. Page - Decadent texts are a subclass of literature paradoxically characterised by both creation and decay, and are thus texts that resist a standard classification of genre. That is to say, Decadent texts are always operating with a dual purpose: the literary movement itself critiques and deconstructs the reigning moral and cultural assumptions, while simultaneously creating a collection of works that are to become what they have moments ago destroyed; the Decadent lifestyle is destructive to the undertaking body, yet simultaneously opens up a world of hitherto unobtainable experience. In Oscar Wilde... Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:46 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/338/memoirs-and-confessions-the-hybrid-form-of-decadent-texts