Engl102 abnormal ’, and so the art books that show the world its they create would be horrific . own shame .’ Even if decadent
If Hildred ’ s life is being lived literature is self-obsessed , out as if it is his own art , his even if it pursues what Harry own impression of the world calls ‘ extraordinary sensations ’, around him , then that leads one it does not incite these to believe that he could even actions . And even if Wilde pursue a ‘ new expressiveness ’ espouses that art is the telling that ’ s ‘ deliberately abnormal ’. of ‘ beautiful untrue things ’
No wonder , then , that Hildred whilst simultaneously a way has grand ideas of becoming of showing the ‘ world its own the new king of the ‘ Imperial shame ’, its very creation took
Dynasty of America ’, as place only for the pleasure of
Chambers supposes that art the artist . What happens after unhinged from morality will that is up to the reader and the fabricate deranged ideas in reader alone . Art , then , reveals ; those who should consume it . it does not beget .
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[ S looks over notes again . This goes on for twenty minutes .]
Perhaps it might be useful to look into Wilde for a moment and his ideas , so that we can properly assess what Chambers is also reacting too , this fear of life conflating with art . In Picture , Harry , for instance , replies to Dorian ’ s assertion that he was poisoned by the yellow book : ‘ As for being poisoned by a book , there is no such thing as that . Art has no influence upon action . It annihilates the desire to act . […] The books that the world calls immoral are
To Chambers , however , it ’ s the opposite , because he is particularly attracted to this connection between this self- consciousness , the conflation of art and life with regards to the self , and also the fallibility of the senses . What I ’ m attracted to here , in how Nordau and Chambers can view Wilde ’ s ideas as horrific whilst Wilde does not , is this colliding of two differing perceptions of one thing . What I mean to ask is how can one person find something beautiful , and another find it horrible ? [ S picks up painting .] The horror is no longer just at how we
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