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Aestheticism and Decadence
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Aestheticism and Decadence
Decadence
Commom themes of decadent literature:
- the perverse
- the bizarre
- the morbid
- the eccentric
- the artificial
Important works
"The importance of being earnest"
Osacr Wilde
"The picture of Dorian Gray"
Oscar Wilde
"A dream of Johh Ball"
William Morris
"The Blessed Damozel"
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Main characteristics
- suggestion rather than statement
- sensuality
- massive use of symbols
- synaesthetic effects or correspondence between words, colours and music
Aestheticism
- a 19th century European movement
- it lasted from about 1868 to 1900
"Studies in the history of the Reinassance" by Walter Pater (1873)
"Art for Art's Sake"
(L'art pour l'art)
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