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East Los Angeles College ENGLISH ENGLISH 102 Select one or two items from Wilde's Preface and discuss how they apply to The Importance of Being Earnest . Select one or two items from Wilde's...

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Question Select one or two items from Wilde's Preface and discuss how they apply to The Importance of Being Earnest. Select one or two items from Wilde's Preface and discuss how The Importance of Be... ing Earnest contradicts them. wilde left for Paris and never returned. on his deathbed, in the Hotel d'Alsacein Paris, he converted to catholicism. He succumbed to cerebral meningitis onNovember 30, 1900.The artist is the creator of beautiful things.To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim'The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his im-pression of beautiful things.The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a motle of autobiography.s Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corruPt without beingcharming. This is a fault.ihose who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the culti-vated. For these there is hoPe.They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That is ;rll.ro The nineteenth century c{islike of Realismr is the rage of Caliban2seeing his ownface in a glass.The nineteenth century dislike of Romanticism3 is the rage of Calibannot seeing his own face in a glass.The moral life of man forms part of tlre subject-rnatter of the artist, but themorality of art consists in tl-re perfect use of an imperfect medium.No artist desires to prove anything. Even tl,ings that are true can be proved.No artist has ethical sympatl-ries. An ethictrl sympathy in an artist is an ttn-pardonable mannerism of stYle'15 No artist is ever morbid. The artist can exPress everything.Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician.From the point of view of feeling, the actor's craft is the type.All art is at once surface and symbol'zo Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex,and vital.When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.zs We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admireit. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.All art is quite useless. [Show More]

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