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5 giorni fa · Appunto di Letteratura inglese sulle caratteristiche dell'Aestheticism, la biografia, le opere, "The Picture of Dorian Gray" di Wilde.
- Life and Works
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) became the embodiment of the...
- Life and Thought
Wilde, Oscar - Life and literary works. Domande e risposte....
- Life and Works
Aestheticism, late 19th-century European arts movement which centred on the doctrine that art exists for the sake of its beauty alone, and that it need serve no political, didactic, or other purpose. The movement began in reaction to prevailing utilitarian social philosophies and to what was.
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The emergence of narcissism in Dorian and its correlation with his newly adopted aesthetic philosophy is integral to Wilde’s novel as it emphasizes the frequent hostility between aestheticism and morality that Wilde cautions against.
In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde, regarding myriad aspects of life, comes up with commendable aesthetic notions just before he serves on the table, as to them, direly cynical...
- Introduction
- A Gothic Narrative of Duplicity and Transgression
- A Novel of Self-Development Breaking Up with Victorian Traditions
- A Manifesto of Wilde’s Aestheticism and Its Limits
- Commented Excerpt: Narcissus’s Tragedy
- Bibliography
When The Picture of Dorian Gray was first published in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine in July 1890,it was decried as profoundly immoral even though some passages had already been censored by the publisher. One critic wrote for instance in the Daily Chronicle that it was “a tale spawned from the leprous literature of the French Décadents – a poisonou...
Although not always categorised as such, The Picture of Dorian Grayis distinctively set in the tradition of the Gothic novel. Wilde’s Faustian tale of a man who sacrifices his soul for eternal youth and a life of pleasures features one of the genre’s essential themes: the violation of natural and moral laws, through which society’s deepest anxietie...
Traditional Victorian society believed in the ethical role of literature, which was supposed to provide models of behaviour for the readers through the depiction of a character’s itinerary towards virtuous self-accomplishment. In this respect, The Picture of Dorian Gray is a dark rewriting of the traditional Bildungsroman,as it narrates the psychol...
More than a dark tale of supernatural immortality, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an illustration of Wilde’s aesthetic philosophy, known as Aestheticism. This intellectual and artistic movement became popular in Victorian England under the influence of the writer Walter Pater, in reaction against the new models brought by the industrial revolution w...
In this passage, Dorian has just broken up with the actress Sybil Vane whom he had courted and intended to marry. Coming back home, he realises for the first time that the portrait has altered and rapidly links it to the cruel and selfish way in which he treated her: Dorian is here confronted with the direct and visible consequences of his behaviou...
BAKER, Houston. “A Tragedy Of The Artist: The Picture of Dorian Gray.” Nineteenth-Century Fiction 24, no. 3 (1969): 349-355. www.jstor.org/stable/2932864. CARROLL, Joseph. “Aestheticism, Homoeroticism, and Christian Guilt in The Picture of Dorian Gray.” Philosophy and Literature 29, no. 2 (2005): 286-304. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/189431. CLAUSS...
21 nov 2023 · Oscar Wilde was a proponent of Aestheticism's idea that art is for art's sake. He was also critical of its pitfalls, as evidenced in The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Oscar Wilde emerged in late nineteenth century London as the living embodiment of the Aesthetic movement. He won fame as a dramatist, poet and novelist whose ideas on art, beauty and personal freedom formed a formidable challenge to Victorian puritanicalism.
