The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde

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• Wilde exemplified in The Picture of Dorian Gray the strategies by which he made, and unmade, himself. As he famously said：Lord Wotton was what the world thought him：one of the new aristocracy, a dandy who lives by his wits, mocked as 'Prince Paradox'. Lord Wotton engages in the counterspeak that was to make Wilde notorious as 'a corrupter of youth' and a thorn in the side of Authority. A 'lord of language' (as Wilde once called himself), Lord Henry Wotton challenges the British hierarchies of truth by systematically sabotaging Empirespeak. Dorian Gray is 'what I would like to be', an eternal youth, one who, at any price, connives to escape moral responsibility. He is the very image of the feckless Irish lad - the 'Great Irresponsible', as William Archer called Wilde - who, living only for... (查看原文)

  Célès 1赞 2014-09-06 12:30:27

• he constantly returns in his writings to the theme of beauty, and to fables which enshrine the basic principle of the dandyism of aesthetic response; to the belief that the ability to recognise beauty, and to respond to it with a rare and refined passion, carries which it the implicit corollary that one possesses therefore, inherently, a particular beauty of temperament and spirit (查看原文)

  Bob 1赞 2015-08-21 11:12:36

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