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From Aestheticism To Consumerism - Oscar Wilde A Modern Interpretation

Posted on:2006-05-31Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:P WuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360152481526Subject:Literature and art
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Aestheticism is merely a social realistic reaction to the hypocrisy shown in BritishVictorian age. It comprise the complex mean as going against the trend of thetimes,displaying individual freedom and uphelding individual developments. OscarWilde,the representative of aestheticism,overthrew the inherent theory aboutaesthetics with his talent wrting and unusual acting. Wilde was so into orientart,he thought the orient art just built such a perfect aesthetic world with"lying",no any reason with common customs he hated. He thought it scorn to themainstream rules, he couldn't risk of the fate of falling into another kind ofdegenerating while he made life out of rage in order to obtain a kind of hobby withhappy sense organ.This text proceeds with social great background in the 19th century,analyse howWilde brought forth his "aesthetic redeem"through art function andsignification,realized the redeem via the harmonious relationship between formaland content. We will see how the perfect aesthetic world built by orent art turedto be a kind ot symbol of consume. We will explore the unconscious meanings underWilde's writng with his literary criticism and post-morden consumism. We will seeall the consume will become consumer social psychology realize and label socialstatus , culture their not to sample , distinguish culture symbol , standard of livingof relative superiority finally. Duplicate and become this boldest plan of the world.The value of the meaning is belittled often following consuming the growth ofeconomic worth in the society to survive, cultural life can just be realized falsly inconsuming. It is not a pure artistic fact again to be aesthetic, but join withnumerous and complicated and complicated history. The aesthetic fact has becomea kind of specific society " disease " or " the politics is unconscious ", it inherentstrength break through it narrow autonomy field , insert as a wedge in reach thesociety deeply. As regards this, aesthetic , the same as varied other culturephenomenon, it is the effect that all kinds of power in the society competitivelycontends for. Having announced it in the social system course in the commoncustoms, the awkward linguistic context which the cultural elite faces.
Keywords/Search Tags:Wilde, aestheticism, consumism
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