Overall, the diversification of celebrity proves to be a complex process, influenced not only by the media (and mediatization), but also by the market and capitalism, power struggles and internal dynamics.

Still, he continues, our attention is incessantly drawn to the discourse and performances of celebrities, which makes them at least a recurring reference point for people’s social practices.

Consequently, the transformation from ordi-nary person to celebrity can be seen as a media ritual that both confirms this separation and legitimates the ‘myth of the mediated centre’, or the myth that the media are the essential gatekeepers to the imagined society’s centre

Like it or loathe it, celebrity culture is with us: it surrounds us and even invades us. It shapes our thought and conduct, style, and manner. It affects and is affected by not just hardcore fans but by entire populations.

Black youth did not create the violence that plagues them, but some undoubtedly have a hand in its far-flung influence.

When brothers can talk so cavalierly about killing each other and then reveal that they have no expectation to see their twenty-first birthday, that is straight-up depression masquerading as machismo

He had cleaned it many times, till there was no stain left upon it. It was bright, and glistened.

It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was.

Of course I refuse. I will have absolutely nothing to do with it. I don’t care what shame comes on you. You deserve it all. I should not be sorry to see you disgraced, publicly disgraced.

How quickly it had all been done! He felt strangely calm, and, walking over to the window, opened it, and stepped out on the balcony.

If you tell me that they are absolutely untrue from beginning to end, I will believe you. Deny them, Dorian, deny them! Can’t you see what I am going through? My God! don’t tell me that you are infamous!

I want you to lead such a life as will make the world respect you. I want you to have a clean name and a fair record. I want you to get rid of the dreadful people you associate with

How different it was with material things!

But it appeared to Dorian Gray that the true nature of the senses had never been understood, and that they had remained savage and animal merely because the world had sought to starve them into submission or to kill them by pain, instead of aiming at making them elements of a new spirituality, of which a fine instinct for beauty was to be the dominant characteristic.

Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that he never sought to free himself from it.

He felt safe now. No one would ever look on the horrible thing. No eye but his would ever see his shame.

Basil would have helped him to resist Lord Henry’s influence, and the still more poisonous influences that came from his own temperament.

Well, from the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I quite admit that I adored you madly, extravagantly, absurdly. I was jealous of every one to whom you spoke. I wanted to have you all to myself.

When she knew its unreality, she died, as Juliet might have died.

But don’t waste your tears over Sibyl Vane. She was less real than they are.”

You have spoiled the romance of my life. How little you can know of love, if you say it mars your art

My dear Harry, my dear Basil, you must both congratulate me!” said the boy, throwing off his evening cape with its satin-lined wings, and shaking each of his friends by the hand in turn. “I have never been so happy. Of course it is sudden: all really delightful things are. And yet it seems to me to be the one thing I have been looking for all my life.” He was flushed with excitement and pleasure, and looked extraordinarily handsome.

t was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one’s face a mask of glass, or keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams

“Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”

I know, now, that when one loses one’s good looks, whatever they may be, one loses everything.

How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June.... If it was only the other way!

Every month as it wanes brings you nearer to something dreadful. Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses

. If I live, I will show the world what it is; and for that reason the world shall never see my portrait of Dorian Gray.

Harry! Harry! if you only knew what Dorian Gray is to me! You remember that landscape of mine, for which Agnew offered me such a huge price, but which I would not part with? It is one of the best things I have ever done. And why is it so? Because, while I was painting it, Dorian Gray sat beside me.”

2 to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake.

It did not deny his own culpability for the wreck of his andhis family's lives, but it made his obsession with Douglas the leading count in his ownself-indictment. I

UnlikeBunthorne, Wilde was not a fraud: he was fascinated by beauty from classicism toKeats, he correlated reform in dress and house decoration with beauty and respect inhuman relations, and he saw philistinism as tyranny in taste and politics.

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The unstable identity of Byron's heroes meant that there was a great deal of scope for the active participation of the reader in Byron's works.

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I have not aimed at exclusive originality, still less have I studied any particular model for imitation; s

In submitting to the public eye the following collection, I have not only to combat the difficulties that writers of verse generally encounter, but may incur the charge of presumption for obtruding myself on the world, when, without doubt, I might be, at my age, more usefully employed.

s a sort of privilege of poets to be egotists; but they should “use it as not abusing it;”

At the end of the summer the Shelley party left for England, where Claire gave birth to Byron’s illegitimate daughter Allegrain January 1817.