Nota Bene I: Here's looking at you kid...
Brought by a venture into recycling a ton of expired drawings. In an attempt to increase my own literacy by avoiding the pittfalls of limited short term memory I make notes of clever things, which can be occasionally read in books. Half of the page almost faded so in an attempt to prolong its life a bit longer I shall post it here, and turn the page to ashes.
Bodily metamorphosis and the physical consequences of "moral" causes
Wilde: "The Decay of Lying" = protest against realism in the aesthetic realms, disparaging, 'poor, probable, uninteresting human life'.
All bad art comes from returning to Nature (life) and elevating them to ideals. Art should be 'a veil, rather than a mirror' "Pen, Pencil, and Poison": The fact of a man being a poisoner is nothing against his prose. The domestic virtues are not the true basis of art, though they may serve as an excellent advertisement for second-rate artists'.
The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate'. 'Art is superior to nature and to life, and aesthetics are always higher than ethics.'
'against the crude brutality of plain realism'
the destruction of a portrait, a form of aesthetic "heresy" - Dorian's greatest sin, disastrous effects of life on art
artificiality - signifyer of the "unreal" - fiction, artificiality as a creation
statement: Art is destroyed by life and morality, and that ethics and aesthetics belong to separate spheres of thought and judgment. His novel is in part an allegory of interpretation, and an essay in critical conduct.
"Here was a visible symbol of the degradation of sin. Here was an ever-present sign of the ruin men brought upon their soul."
Perhaps the moral degradation Dorian brings on himself is an attempt to discover his soul, portrait is an indicator, a validating source that points to its existence. -> by falling deeper into sin he monitors his soul (ch. XI). "There is a soul in each one of us. I know it".
conscience destroys Dorian, not vice versa
"paranoia" - acute study of obsession and psychological collapse (decay) depicting a mind destroying itself with its own obsession.
(fin de siccle), Jekyll & Hyde
Conan Doyle: The Man with the Twisted Lip
Eyries: Tales of the Dead: The ghost Stories of the Villa Diodati" - family portraits
Polidori: The Vampire
Frayling: Nightmare: the Birth of Horror
Bodily metamorphosis and the physical consequences of "moral" causes
Wilde: "The Decay of Lying" = protest against realism in the aesthetic realms, disparaging, 'poor, probable, uninteresting human life'.
All bad art comes from returning to Nature (life) and elevating them to ideals. Art should be 'a veil, rather than a mirror' "Pen, Pencil, and Poison": The fact of a man being a poisoner is nothing against his prose. The domestic virtues are not the true basis of art, though they may serve as an excellent advertisement for second-rate artists'.
The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate'. 'Art is superior to nature and to life, and aesthetics are always higher than ethics.'
'against the crude brutality of plain realism'
the destruction of a portrait, a form of aesthetic "heresy" - Dorian's greatest sin, disastrous effects of life on art
artificiality - signifyer of the "unreal" - fiction, artificiality as a creation
statement: Art is destroyed by life and morality, and that ethics and aesthetics belong to separate spheres of thought and judgment. His novel is in part an allegory of interpretation, and an essay in critical conduct.
"Here was a visible symbol of the degradation of sin. Here was an ever-present sign of the ruin men brought upon their soul."
Perhaps the moral degradation Dorian brings on himself is an attempt to discover his soul, portrait is an indicator, a validating source that points to its existence. -> by falling deeper into sin he monitors his soul (ch. XI). "There is a soul in each one of us. I know it".
conscience destroys Dorian, not vice versa
"paranoia" - acute study of obsession and psychological collapse (decay) depicting a mind destroying itself with its own obsession.
(fin de siccle), Jekyll & Hyde
Conan Doyle: The Man with the Twisted Lip
Eyries: Tales of the Dead: The ghost Stories of the Villa Diodati" - family portraits
Polidori: The Vampire
Frayling: Nightmare: the Birth of Horror