Aestheticism

could be seen from ground level in antiquity – was a bow to tradition” (Kleiner 210). This architecture follows a hemispherical dome where the Romans believe in the vault of the heavens. The use of coffers (sunken decorative panels) was to bring aestheticism to this architecture. The interior of the…

The brick exterior walls no longer carried the entire weight of the building. This enabled the architects to open the facades and provide enough daylight to penetrate the interior environment. However, the technical construction did not preclude aestheticism. As the building’s beautifully carved stone ornament demonstrated, the Rookery’s architects kept the balance between impression and permanence while keeping its functionality. From the street, the Rookery appeared to be a solid brick block,…

most beautiful when observed through their art. Reality, the shared apparently physical space in which all individual universes seem to be stranded, can be ugly because it can foster anything rationally conceivable. Under Wilde’s philosophy of aestheticism, one seeks moral pleasure from specifically artistic beauty rather than real life’s wide and polluted functionality. Beauty is both the noblest of pursuits and the singular artistic purpose, but it is far from the only pursuit in existence.…

Max Beerbohm’s Enoch Soames highlights the need for being known for one's artwork and having it tell the tale of one’s name. Enoch Soame’s ego is seen as he tries to bend the rules of nature and see if he ever becomes famous posthumously. Soame’s college Max Beerbohm, becomes the narrator of the tale and a main character as well. Here, the reader sees the first signs of his selfish nature and how both characters self-deprecate in order to appear rather dependent on the reader and their tales…

OSCAR WILDE: A STUDY IN ART, MORTALITY, AND PLEASURE PURSUIT Hussein Jasim Mohammed Al-Husseini English Department University of Misan Amarah, Maysan, Iraq Abstract Oscar Wild's attitude to hedonism would not be of an ordinary variety. Thus, it becomes all the more necessary to focus this study on Hedonism - Its Philosophical Bases in intertwining connection with the extraordinary strange personality of Oscar Wilde. His mind during its vigorous growth of creativity for one decade and more…

Gupta Empire, the Late Han Dynasty and the Muslim States, all faced the colonization of new lands while maintaining one cultural community. The expanding domination and the formation of tribute system of all three societies through force led to the need for male soldiers and as a byproduct the increasing “authority of senior males and arranged marriages” (Mckay,et.182,237,342). Through an exploration of Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra during the Gupta empire, as well as Pan Chao’s Lessons for a Woman…

flares varying attitudes closest to Dorian and he begins to be more self-indulgent and corrupt inside and out. In the novel, Lord Henry is considered a negative source for Dorian. He is uninterested with morality and he strongly values hedonism and aestheticism. Basil on the other hand is recognized as the positive source. He…

The idea of education through self-cultivation (Bildung) belongs to the era of modernity and of the self-realizing individual (Castle 665). The newly-formed individual returns from his journey as a master rhetorician, reconciling with his fractured self when he realizes his internalization of “fractured discourse in the world” (Castle 666). Wilde explores a world in which the protagonist reaches his ultimate goal effortlessly under the influence of others, effectively avoiding the arduous…

The supposed hero’s actions seem a challenge to the Victorian society and its norms. The Picture tells the tale of the protagonist, Dorian, who ventures into moral decay and hedonism. The strict code of conduct and moral obligation is broken by Dorian’s egoistic pursuit of pleasures and new sensations. Once Dorian discovers he can practically get away with everything, he carries out various heinous acts, including murder. He thought that his respectable appearance protects him from being accused…

The sonnet is a poetic model which is deeply entrenched in English literary tradition; the sonnet, following its introduction to England during the Renaissance, the sonnet form enjoyed a vogue between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries which reached its apogee in 1609, following the publication of Shakespeare’s sonnets; the form then befell a period of momentous neglect wherein an ‘occasional’ sonnet vogue emerged, which worsened due to the cultural distance eighteenth century writers imposed…