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The Aesthetic Experiment of Oscar Wilde in A House of Pomegranates

Hou Jing

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Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) is one of major proponents of Aestheticism in England.This thesis attempts to probe into Oscar Wilde's second collection of fairy tales-A House of Pomegranates, which is complicated and abstruse in aspects of language, theme and narration, compared with his first collection of fairy tales-The Happy Prince and Other Tales.The author contends that A House of Pomegranates, which is subversive of the fairy tale convention, is brought forward by Wilde's aesthetic intentions-art is independent of life and immortal, thus, an experiment in aestheticism.The approach of textual analysis and comparison are adopted in this thesis.

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Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) is one of major proponents of Aestheticism in England.This thesis attempts to probe into Oscar Wilde's second collection of fairy tales-A House of Pomegranates, which is complicated and abstruse in aspects of language, theme and narration, compared with his first collection of fairy tales-The Happy Prince and Other Tales.The author contends that A House of Pomegranates, which is subversive of the fairy tale convention, is brought forward by Wilde's aesthetic intentions-art is independent of life and immortal, thus, an experiment in aestheticism.The approach of textual analysis and comparison are adopted in this thesis.

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Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) is one of major proponents of Aestheticism in England.This thesis attempts to probe into Oscar Wilde's second collection of fairy tales-A House of Pomegranates, which is complicated and abstruse in aspects of language, theme and narration, compared with his first collection of fairy tales-The Happy Prince and Other Tales.The author contends that A House of Pomegranates, which is subversive of the fairy tale convention, is brought forward by Wilde's aesthetic intentions-art is independent of life and immortal, thus, an experiment in aestheticism.The approach of textual analysis and comparison are adopted in this thesis.

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