Intentions - Oscar Wilde - Books - - 9781686400353 - August 14, 2019
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Intentions

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On every page of this collection the gifted literary stylist admirably demonstrates not only that the characteristics of art are "distinction, charm, beauty, and imaginative power," but also that criticism itself can be raised to an art form possessing these very qualities. In the opening essay, Wilde laments the "decay of Lying as an art, a science, and a social pleasure." He takes to task modern literary realists like Henry James and Emile Zola for their "monstrous worship of facts" and stifling of the imagination. What makes art wonderful, he says, is that it is "absolutely indifferent to fact, [art] invents, imagines, dreams, and keeps between herself and reality the impenetrable barrier of beautiful style, of decorative or ideal treatment."

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released August 14, 2019
ISBN13 9781686400353
Pages 224
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 13 mm   ·   335 g
Language English  

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