The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical ProseSelection includes The Portrait of Mr W.H., Wilde's defence of Dorian Gray, reviews, and the writings from 'Intentions' (1891): 'The Decay of Lying, 'Pen, Pencil, Poison', and 'The Critic as Artist'. |
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... fact two aspects of an identical evolutionary process. For the genetic and adaptational changes occurring at the biological level in amoebae and beans, Wallace suggested, demanded explanation in terms of the thesis, antithesis and ...
... fact two aspects of an identical evolutionary process. For the genetic and adaptational changes occurring at the biological level in amoebae and beans, Wallace suggested, demanded explanation in terms of the thesis, antithesis and ...
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... facts' and 'experience', Jowett believed, had failed to recognize that such elements themselves implied an unacknowledged metaphysics. 'We do not consider,' Jowett remarked urbanely in his introduction to the Theaetetus, 'how much ...
... facts' and 'experience', Jowett believed, had failed to recognize that such elements themselves implied an unacknowledged metaphysics. 'We do not consider,' Jowett remarked urbanely in his introduction to the Theaetetus, 'how much ...
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... fact of it's existence is the reason for its existence.' Transposed from ethics to aesthetics, Aristotle's dictum will later reappear in 'The Critic as Artist' as the controlling principle of Wilde's criticism, Gilbert telling Ernest ...
... fact of it's existence is the reason for its existence.' Transposed from ethics to aesthetics, Aristotle's dictum will later reappear in 'The Critic as Artist' as the controlling principle of Wilde's criticism, Gilbert telling Ernest ...
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... fact, he is the resultant of a certain milieu and a certain entourage, and can no more be born of a nation that is devoid of any sense of beauty than a fig can grow from a thorn or a rose blossom from a thistle. That an artist will find ...
... fact, he is the resultant of a certain milieu and a certain entourage, and can no more be born of a nation that is devoid of any sense of beauty than a fig can grow from a thorn or a rose blossom from a thistle. That an artist will find ...
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... fact may, in its effect, become beautiful, is true; and this, indeed, is the real modernité of art; but these conditions are exactly what we cannot be always sure of, as we stroll down Piccadilly3 in the glaring vulgarity of the noonday ...
... fact may, in its effect, become beautiful, is true; and this, indeed, is the real modernité of art; but these conditions are exactly what we cannot be always sure of, as we stroll down Piccadilly3 in the glaring vulgarity of the noonday ...
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