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IL VOLUME ANALIZZA I DUE VOLUMI DEL PROF. MARIO CATTANEO ORDINARIO DI FILOSOFIA DEL DIRITTO ALL'UNIVERSITA' STATALE DI MILANO . IL PRIMO LIBRO RIGUASRDA LE OPERE DI CARLO GOLDONI ED ALESSANDRO MANZONI ED I LORO RAPPORTI CON L'ILLUMINISMO,... more
It is contended that, by means of the changing economic power in the nineteenth-century society, the middle classes prevailed over upper classes in Britain, and they hence established their concept of Victorian masculinity on the basis of... more
In 1893 Aubrey Beardsley was commissioned to illustrate the 1894 English edition of Oscar Wilde's notorious play Salome, which Wilde had originally written in French during his stay in Paris in 1891. Both text and illustrations have... more
""Volumul Andradei Fatu-Tutoveanu reuseste sa transforme marginalitatea tematica in centralitate, dovedind ca anumite calitati si valente simbolice asociate cu experienta intima a opiaceelor sunt strins legate de insasi configurarea unei... more
"Instrumentality of Moods: Pragmatism and Useful Uselessness of Art." – In this essay the author deals with the problem of “useful uselessness” of art as the background for identifying the nature of pragmatist philosophy of art. First, he... more
This Extended Essay is focused on the topic of Art in the book The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde. Its aim is to answer the question: "How does Oscar Wilde use the three main characters in 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' to explore... more
(From _Processes of Institutionalisation: Case Studies in Law, Prison, and Censorshop_, by Uwe Boeker and Julie Hibbard, 2001) An examination of the prosecution of Wilde as a function of struggles over autonomy and control of psychic... more
Анализ эволюции образа Афины на материале литературной (О. Уайльд, Вл. Соловьев, А. Блок) и иконографической (Э. Берн-Джонс, Ф. Штук, Г. Климт, К. Мозер и др.) традиции модерна позволяет наметить этапы происхождения и развития... more
This paper explores the notion of homosocial space in the Victorian Era as it pertains to canonicity issues in literature. Homosocial space simply means that space which men set aside, such as in men.s-only clubs or situations such as the... more
Arthur Cravan, Chronologie, Le Règle de Jeu, oct. 2013, n°53, directeur : Bernard-Henri Lévy
Wilde’s aesthetics and his Catholicism bear important—if often unnoticed—connections. When read through recent revisions of secularization theory, Wilde’s aestheticism, as articulated in “The Decay of Lying” (1889) and “The Critic as... more
For the last three years I have been working on my current book project, which is titled Ireland, the Irish, and the Rise of Biofiction. I am nearly finished with a full draft, and I just completed my introduction. If any of you have time... more
Blumen sind mehr als Blumen: Sie kodieren historisch und kulturell bedingte Nachrichten, die entziffert und gelesen werden können. Was zeichnet eine solche Kommunikation durch die Blume aus? Der Band erkundet erstmals das Feld der... more
Aestheticism is a theory in aesthetics and the philosophy of art whose main principle is “art for art’s sake.” The principle is taken in conjunction with its ramifications, which are: a focus on the artwork’s form and composition and... more
Review of 'Oscar Wilde: The Portrait of Mr W.H.' with a foreword by Peter Ackroyd, originally published on OScholars in 2003 and 2016.
Here come the dandies. Always ready to use their wit to change clichés and commonplaces. For them, nothing is quite so serious – except banality . Welcome to an aesthetics in which poses matter more than gestures, sensations implode... more
La novelística de la violencia 1 en Colombia es un estudio crítico de la narrativa colombiana cuya temática es la Violencia, fundamentado en la valoración y en alguna medida en la clasificación de treinta obras publicadas entre 1951 y... more
O Retrato de Dorian Gray, ou no original The Picture of Dorian Gray, é o único romance escrito por Oscar Wilde. O texto teve um grande impacto na vida do artista, isso porque o autor sempre teve muito a dizer e a escrever sobre essa obra... more
This article addresses the teaching of English as an Additional Language(EAL) in the Brazilian basic education context through a pedagogical practicedeveloped upon the use of literary texts, in this case Oscar Wilde’s short story entitled... more
It is a Gothic tradition to create a protagonist who is doomed from the start, as is shown in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), where the protagonist does not evolve but deteriorates. Wilde’s novel symbolizes man’s... more
Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), has long been considered a marker of Aestheticism, a philosophy which came to be associated with its author’s name. In his novel, Wilde shows how art created on the basis of Aestheticism... more
Mimēsis functions as a conceptual protagonist that is secretly at play in contemporary critiques of subject formation yet, to this day, it continues to remain at the margins of philosophy. Rather than restricting mimesis to aesthetic... more
This dissertation aims to explore the works of Oscar Wilde through the dialectical dichotomy of depth and surface. The predominant focus will be on The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Ernest, his essays in Intentions; The... more
Fed up with the commercial and moral restrictions of the mainstream press, the diverse avant-garde groups of authors and artists of the Aesthetic Movement developed a new genre of periodicals in which to propagate their principles and... more
The book is essentially Alfred Douglas’ version of what really happened. It is good quality writing. From a person who obviously is from a high mental stamina. In this book a commentary can also be found. This commentary is not about... more
You say that [Lucy Snowe] may be thought morbid and weak unless the history of her life be more fully given. . . . i might explain away a few other points but it would be too much like drawing a picture and then writing underneath the... more
This study is an analysis of the body and self relation in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and The Body by Hanif Kureishi. The main focus of the study is upon the division between body and self in terms of individual and social... more
In his perceptive observations about Edward Burne-Jones, written in 1895, Robert de la Sizeranne noted that 'from Botticelli he took his type of female beauty, such as you see it in the fresco of the Nozze de Tornabuoni … From Mantegna,... more