Full text
| |
| Author(s): |
Thaís Marques Soranzo
Total Authors: 1
|
| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem |
| Defense date: | 2020-07-07 |
| Examining board members: |
Jefferson Cano;
Fábio Akcelrud Durão;
Leonardo Pinto Mendes
|
| Advisor: | Jefferson Cano |
| Abstract | |
This master¿s thesis is a study of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), by Oscar Wilde, and Esther Waters (1894), by George Moore. In a time of great cultural effervescence in England, these writers took part in the discussion of the representation of the literary object, known as the "controversy of art versus life". Although that debate could be understood as an aesthetic problem, this research proposes that the crossroads between life and art also characterize a moral problem. In order to verify that hypothesis, this work initially examines the projects of naturalism and aestheticism, which were at first followed by George Moore and Oscar Wilde respectively. In spite of their divergences, both aesthetics were interpreted by Victorian morality as instruments of corrupting readers. Taking this historic debate into account, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Esther Waters are analyzed in their cultural context, in which they are representatives of the moral and aesthetic impasse posed by the conflict between life and art (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 18/13313-0 - At the crossroads between life and art: a study of the novels The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde and Esther Waters, by George Moore |
| Grantee: | Thaís Marques Soranzo |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |