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‘Perpetual recurrence’: The arrest of time in Decadent poetry

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‘Perpetual recurrence’: The arrest of time in Decadent poetry. / Ebbatson, R.
Literature and Modern Time: Technological Modernity; Glimpses of Eternity; Experiments with Time. ed. / Trish Ferguson. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. p. 79-101.

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Ebbatson, R 2020, ‘Perpetual recurrence’: The arrest of time in Decadent poetry. in T Ferguson (ed.), Literature and Modern Time: Technological Modernity; Glimpses of Eternity; Experiments with Time. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 79-101. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29278-2_4

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Ebbatson, R. (2020). ‘Perpetual recurrence’: The arrest of time in Decadent poetry. In T. Ferguson (Ed.), Literature and Modern Time: Technological Modernity; Glimpses of Eternity; Experiments with Time (pp. 79-101). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29278-2_4

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Ebbatson R. ‘Perpetual recurrence’: The arrest of time in Decadent poetry. In Ferguson T, editor, Literature and Modern Time: Technological Modernity; Glimpses of Eternity; Experiments with Time. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 2020. p. 79-101 doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-29278-2_4

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Ebbatson, R. / ‘Perpetual recurrence’ : The arrest of time in Decadent poetry. Literature and Modern Time: Technological Modernity; Glimpses of Eternity; Experiments with Time. editor / Trish Ferguson. Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. pp. 79-101

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