invited a system of logic that left them defense-less against the label of clinical madness
such a label would only seek to stifle the creativity of an artist, and keep that creativity from expressing itself through his or her life
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- Apr 2017
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the Enlightenment regarding the mental state of indi-viduals during the act of creation, the
regarding the mental state during the act of creation, not the mental state of the person at all times... I would think that we all have a flash of a unique mental state while we're being creative.
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romantic movement in literature that wasindispensable to the establishmen
an famous example of a romantic composer diagnosed with mental illness would be Robert Schumann
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have some.—Basil, I can’t allow you to smoke cigars. You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can you want?—
Ahh... Healthy, Delicious Cigarettes!
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- Mar 2017
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The audience probably thought it was a duet. When Aunt Agatha sits down to the piano she makes quite enough noise for two people.”
Could this be another reference to the alter-ego archetype?
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nineteenth-century standard of immortality. Suddenly I found myself face to face with the young man whose personality had so strangely stirred me. We were quite close, almost touching. Our eyes met
This whole passage reminds me of that scene in Broad City where Ilana, at a party, runs into that woman played by the actor who was Maeby in Arrested Development and they fall immediately in love, only to realize later that they were complete opposites and they were only attracted to eachother because they look identical...
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every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist
I think Wilde is wriiting abiut writing, and saying from the beginning that this piece is autobiographical.
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worth; Dorian Gray’s good looks,—we will all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.”
foreshadow8ng - dun dun dun!
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with your rugged strong face and your coal-black hair, and this young Adonis,5 who looks as if he was made of ivory and rose-leaves. Why,
I'm reminded of Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse, where the two charcters fit these exact descriptions respectively. Of course, these two end up kind of representing the alter-ego archetype, two sides of the same man.
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opium-tainted cigarette.
ahh... those were the days! Usually the involvement of opium in works of literature gives a fanciful twist to the plot. I'm reminded of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, a programmatic piece about a man on an opium bender which ends with a march to the scaffold and a witches' sabbath dance in hell. So I'm really looking forward to what antics the boys get into.
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public excitement
So now we see, assuming Basil is the protagonist or main character and that he is partly a manifestation of Wilde's personality, that Wilde is writing from the vantage of a famous person, who lives in the public eye. Again with these guys writing about their own fame!
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- Feb 2017
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marketable commodity
his 'off-screen' life is as marketable (or as piratable?) as his poetry. Dang, I wish I would have had this as a source for my essay!
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off-screen lifestyles
off-poetry lifestyle?
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'first celebrity writer' ,7 fits particularly neatly into a Dyerian framework. Although star theory
This hypothesis thing is about to give me a rage stroke. Anyhow, this is the sentence I have chosen that best states the claim of the paragraph, saying that although Byron came before Richard Dyer's use of the word "star," he fits the same criteria as those considered stars in the film industry.
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star
an important distinction to make from celebrity, or writer, or famous person. for instance, a famous physicist isn't as likely to gain this kind of stardom.
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Richard Dyer's
Thorsby is citing Dyer here (moreso later)
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