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9 mag 2024 · Dorian’s negation, “Ugliness was the one reality,” neatly summarizes Wilde’s Aestheticism, both his love of the beautiful and his fascination with the profane. Publication of the novel scandalized Victorian England, and The Picture of Dorian Gray was used as evidence against Wilde when he was tried and convicted in 1895 on ...
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17 mag 2024 · Another author at the pinnacle of his career in the fin-de-siècle and a leader within aestheticism was Oscar Wilde. Though they ran in the same circles and shared similar beliefs, James and Wilde were not close friends.
4 giorni fa · Oscar Wilde attempted a modern justification of leisure and beauty for pleasure, but where machines would replace the moral wrong of slavery. He famously defended amoral art for art’s sake and wrote, "The Greek, wisely limiting his activity to an artistic sphere, considered the creation of beautiful things as the true aim of life."
15 ore fa · In the face of these struggles, Wilde wrote the play as a plea for reform, to use satire to point out the injustices of the day.</p> <p>Besides its political overtones, “The Importance of Being Earnest” also seemed to resonate with Wilde due to its themes of love, marriage, and identity. In the play, Wilde explored these ideas through ...
7 mag 2024 · During the late 19th century, Oscar Wilde rose to fame as a lauded author but also for his aestheticism and controversy. This guide provides access to materials related to "Oscar Wilde" in the Chronicling America digital collection of historic newspapers.
1 giorno fa · Oscar Wilde nel 1882 (foto di Sarony) Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (Dublino, 16 ottobre 1854 – Parigi, 30 novembre 1900) è stato uno scrittore, aforista, poeta, drammaturgo, giornalista, saggista, e critico letterario irlandese dell'età vittoriana, esponente del decadentismo e dell'estetismo britannico. Firma di Oscar Wilde
23 mag 2024 · Joseph Bristow, Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend (2008) Liz Constable, Dennis Denisoff, and Matthew Potolsky (eds.), Perennial Decay: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadence (1999)
