Oscar Wilde: A Flamboyant Aesthete and Literary Genius, Slide di Inglese

Scarica Oscar Wilde: A Flamboyant Aesthete and Literary Genius e più Slide in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Life The novelist, playwright and poet Oscar Wilde was born in 1854 into a wealthy family (his father was a famous surgeon, his mother a writer and a rather eccentric woman)and lived in Merrion Square, in Dublin. He is remembered for his extensive writings, his extraordinary wit and his flamboyant style of dress. After attending Trinity College in Dublin, Wilde was sent to Oxford, where he gained a first-class degree in Classics and distinguished himself for his eccentricity, wit and brilliant conversations. He graduated in 1878. Wilde was a brilliant student, he attended Trinity College in Dublin and during his studies he showed an unconventional personality. The Aesthetic Movement A litterary movement Refuse of the society Search of the beautiful : “My life is like a work of art” Aesthetic  Edonism -Artist : the creator of beautiful things -Art: celebrates beauty Life imitates the art In Italy  Gabriele D’Annunzio In France  Joris-Karl Huysmans In England  Oscar Wilde He believed that only Art as the cult of Beauty could prevent the murder of the soul. He lived in the double role of the rebel and the dandy. His aesthetism clashed with the didactism of Victorian novels. The Preface is the manifesto of the aesthetic movement The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. No artist desires to prove anything. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art. All art is quite useless.