Presentation of the special issue on decadence of the journal Methis

The presentation of the special issue on decadence of Methis. Studia Humaniora Estonica will be held in Tartu on 17 December 2025. The issue was compiled by Mirjam Hinrikus, Aare Pilv, and Leo Luks, researchers at the Under and Tuglas Literary Institute of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. The articles of the issue are based on presentations of the conference Decadence in Estonian culture: translation and interpretation.

The special issue is available here.

Table of contents

Introduction

Introduction: A Three-Part Special-Issue Series on Decadence and the Project’s Framework
Mirjam Hinrikus, Leo Luks, Aare Pilv

Articles

Rubén Darío and Modernismo in Spanish-speaking America: Decadence as an Opportunity for Cultural Independence
Klaarika Kaldjärv

Intersensory Decadence: Three Colourful Estonian Versions of Salomé and a Vocal Stage Interpretation from 1919
Maria-Kristiina Lotman, Katiliina Gielen

Autumn of the Body on Fire: Notes on the Prose Poetry of Jaan Oks
Ian T. Gwin

The Woman Question and Patterns of Decadence in Sophia Vardi’s Short Story “First Winds” (1914) and Alma Ostra’s Novella “Aino” (1923)
Merlin Kirikal

Aesthete Visnapuu and his “Creative Nationalism”
Aare Pilv

On Decadence, Aestheticism, and Karl Ristikivi
Rein Undusk

Mediation of Theory

Decadence and Realism
Matthew Potolsky

Reflections on decadence, modernity, republicanism
Märt Väljataga