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aestheticism
features
evocative use of the language
excessive attention to the self
hedonistic attitude
prone/incline to beauty
perversity in subject matter
disenchantment with contemporary society
industrialised society is ugly
absence of didactic aim
absence of aim
in contradiction with the materialistic mindset
Oscar Wilde
life
was born in dublin
attended trinity college
attended oxford
settled in london
famous because of
wit
extravagant way of dressing
polymath collective versatile
edited poems
was engaged for a tour in the united states
lectures about
pre-raphaelites
aesthetes
married constance lloyd and have two children
short stories
picture of dorian gray
1891
considered immoral
he knew that
punitive ending
preface
aforisms
influenced by
against the grave
Huysmann
the oval portrait
edgar allan poe
neoplatonic idea
correspondence physical and spiritual
setting
current world
characters reavel themselves through what they say or what other people say of them
art survives people
stabs it
plays
the importance of being earnest
salomè
prevented from appearing on the stage due to its obscenity
damaged author's reputation
homosexual affair with lord alfred douglas
convicted
two years of hard labour
de prufundis
published posthumously
act of "gross indecency"
lived in paris
pseudonym
poverty
died of meningitis
1854-1900
theorized
Walter Pater
1873
studies in the history of the renaissance
demoralising message
rejected moralistic approach
art hasn't to be didactic
task
rejected religious faith
life
should be lived as a work of art
feeling all kind of sensation
task of the artist
feel sensations
to be attentive to the gracious
artisttranscribes his sense of the world
not mere facts
so art had no reference to life
pioneers
french simbolist poets
Baudelaire
flower of evil
1857