ENGL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Plot Twist, Chasuble, Woolton
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Art has supreme value among human products precisely becaue it is self sufficient and has no use of moral aim 0utside its own being literature is a moral not immoral. The end of a work of art is simly to exist in its formal perfecion to be beautiful and to be contemplated as an end in itself. To brun always with this hard gem like flame to maintain this ectasy in success in life walter oater, the renaissance. Developed out of aethetic movement in france. Rejection of nature in two forms: fecundity exuberance and insticnctivness of organic nature, norms or naturalness of human behavior. Preferance for elaborate dress and artifice in social behaviour. Bizzzare subject matter breaking boundry of being natural. There is a defiance of natural human behavior through. The systematic derangment of the senses arthur rumbaud in. Preface to oscar wildes :the picture of dorian gray. There is n such thing as a moral or an immoral book.