文档介绍：The Picture of Dorian Gray
道林·格雷的画像
(1856-1900)
Oscar Wilde
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The Victorian Age(1832-1901) was a period of rapid growth, development, and reform. The ies
In the late Victorian Age, there was an over-all change of attitude in literature. The writers of the 1890’s are sometimes styled “Late Victorians” and sometimes “the first of the Moderns”. Some of them are anti-Victorians while others are exponents of some modern ideas which are brand-new and provocative in their own days but monplace today.
In the last decade of the 19th century, the change of attitude became more conspicuous. Victorian standards were breaking down on several fronts. Melancholy, not gaiety, is characteristic of the spirit of the decade.
The most important literary movement in this final decade, is the Aestheticism, represented by Oscar Wilde.
The Aestheticism
The basic theory of the Aesthetic movement was “art for art’s sake”. Aestheticism places art above life, and holds that life should imitate art, not art imitate life. The chief representative of the movement in England was Oscar Wilde, with his The Picture of Dorian Gray.
十九世纪末的英国文坛:唯美主义、讽刺艺术泛滥成灾、新浪漫主义小说——新型的历险小说、外来影响,出现国际间的相互影响,合流趋势。
奥斯卡·王尔德
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Life & Works
Oscar Wilde, a dramatist, poet, novelist and essayist, was born in Dublin, Ireland. His father was an eminent surgeon and his mother was clever woman with intellectual pretentions. He proved a brilliant student at Trinity College, where he became a disciple of Walter Pater. In 1879, he settled in London, and soon won a reputation both as a spokesman for the school of “art for art’s sake”. He soon became the leader of the Aesthetic movement.
(Oscar Wilde,1856-1900),英国著
名诗人、作家及戏剧家,英国文学史上唯美主义运动的
创始人和首领之一,主张“为艺术而艺术”,反对文学带
有功利主义色彩,认为文学不应受任何道德标准的支配。
他也是英国颓废派文学的代表。
Sexuality
1895年,王尔德被告***,以有伤风化罪
而在英国被捕,在瑞丁和本顿维尔监狱服了两年苦役.
Wilde's sexual orientation has variously been considered bisexual or gay. He
had significant sexual rel