'Monstrous fancies, misshapen dreams': My ambivalence with 'Dorian Gray'
The players of the story inflate the idea of creativity with it and they take the search for beauty in a very literal sense.
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The players of the story inflate the idea of creativity with it and they take the search for beauty in a very literal sense.
To me, Wilde’s novel articulates the deepest anxieties of the late Victorians and continues to offer us ways to interpret our own experiences.
Aestheticism. >> just based on my experience with the president-elect since he's been elected, whatever the aesthetic is, it's playing very well with those who were elected to sit in these positions. we were talking about his cabinet picks. and some of what you just were saying came up a little bit, who he might pick. what if he picks an establishment guy like a mitt romney for secretary of state versus a rudy giuliani? who do you like that he's put in his administration so far? you know the name that came up again and again? it wasn't james mattis or tom price, it was ben carson. maybe that's...