Romanticism and Victorianism in English literature - Symbolism, sensation, adventure, and high fantasy in the Victorian novel from Oscar Wilde to Bram Stoker : lesson 12. /
The unit introduces the three movements formative of the late 19th century artistic views: Symbolism, Decadence, and Aestheticism. It demonstrates – through the example of Oscar Wilde’s fiction – how the sophisticated symbolism of the decadent aestheticist agenda may fuse with the more popular enter...
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| Dokumentumtípus: | Vegyes gyűjtemény |
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2020-06
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| Kulcsszavak: | angol irodalom története Viktoriánus irodalom |
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| Online Access: | http://eta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/3051 |
| Tartalmi kivonat: | The unit introduces the three movements formative of the late 19th century artistic views: Symbolism, Decadence, and Aestheticism. It demonstrates – through the example of Oscar Wilde’s fiction – how the sophisticated symbolism of the decadent aestheticist agenda may fuse with the more popular entertainment mode of gothic fiction’s pleasurable thrills. It also provides a brief overview of the Victorian era’s most popular novelistic forms, including the sensation novel, the adventure novel, detective fiction, and fantastic fiction. The unit introduces the three movements formative of the late 19th century artistic views: Symbolism, Decadence, and Aestheticism. It demonstrates – through the example of Oscar Wilde’s fiction – how the sophisticated symbolism of the decadent aestheticist agenda may fuse with the more popular entertainment mode of gothic fiction’s pleasurable thrills. It also provides a brief overview of the Victorian era’s most popular novelistic forms, including the sensation novel, the adventure novel, detective fiction, and fantastic fiction. |
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