Notes On "Camp" by Susan Sontag Published in 1964. Many things in the world have not been named; and many things‚ even if they have been named‚ have never been described. One of these is the sensibility -- unmistakably modern‚ a variant of sophistication but hardly identical with it -- that goes by the cult name of "Camp." A sensibility (as distinct from an idea) is one of the hardest things to talk about; but there are special reasons why Camp‚ in particular‚ has never been discussed. It is
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huge advances in every respect of English society in the Victorian era is dramatically enlarged in Steven’s Jekyll-Hyde character‚ where Jekyll is a renowned doctor and Hyde is a complete monster‚ and symbolically portrayed in Wilde’s character of Dorian Gray‚ where his admission of vice and sins is shown progressively through alterations of the
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disillusionment from the war led to a radical change in writing. Renowned American writers like T.S Eliot and Ezra Pound maintained their innovative literary techniques but changed the subject matter. The writings which were previously influenced by Aestheticism now shifted focus to more severe matters of preserving civilization. The keywords of literary reviews were fears about cultural degeneration and ’civilization’. Even the emerging English novelists like D.H Lawrence and Virginia Woolf changed their
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“Here‚ the lofty and highly much praised artistic achievement of Attic tragedy and the dramatic dithyramb presents itself before our eyes‚ as the common goal of both artistic drives‚ whose secret marriage partnership‚ after a long antecedent struggle‚ celebrated itself with such a child‚ simultaneously Antigone and Cassandra.” (Friedrich Nietzsche on the relationship between the Apollnian and Dionysian) How do both reason and imagination shape poetry? Reason and Imagination are two concepts
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Throughout human history‚ we have been fascinated with our own mortality. This obsession with life and death has carried over into our literary works‚ and given birth to stories such as Dr. Frankenstein‚ The Picture of Dorian Gray and Dr. Faustus. These tales revolve around the preservation and unnatural extension of life‚ either through the power of science or the supernatural. On these ideas there are three pertinent examples of poems in which life is shown as being frail. In all of these poems
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History of term is very interesting. At first‚ this kind of discrimination‚ we are talking about is a reaction to the body and the face‚ was named as ‘aestheticism‚’ or even ‘physicalism.’ Scientists have discovered other kinds of reactions that can be identified as a separate category. Besides‚ terms such as ‘physicalism’ and ‘aestheticism’ are too well established in other contexts to be of much use here. The choice turned out to be between ‘looksism’ and ‘lookism.’ ‘Looksism‚’ with
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double-faced life such as Dr. Jekyll. To others‚ it seemed they led a normal and respectable life while in reality they were living a scandalous life. For instance‚ Oscar Wilde‚ an Irish-born author and playwright best known for “The Picture of Dorian Gray”‚ was seen as an admired member of society‚ but was later arrested at the height of his career for gross indecency (in fact‚ homosexuality is an undercurrent in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) and died penniless
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1. Allegory (寓言)– The word derives from the Greek allegoria ( “speaking other-wise” ). It loosely describes any writing in verse or prose that has a double meaning. This fictional literary narrative acts as an extended metaphor in which persons‚ abstract ideas‚ or events represent not only themselves on the literal level‚ but also stand for something else on the symbolic level. An allegorical reading usually involves moral or spiritual concepts that may be more significant than the actual‚ literal
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This essay will serve to argue that the aestheticism of criminality is evident prior to the Romantic period. The perspective of the reader is vastly different in The Epistle from Arthur Grey and On Murder‚ one being a personal account and the other an eye witness‚ but both focus on the beauty of
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climatic or environmental catastrophe. Dorian Invasion Dorian‚ any member of a major division of the ancient Greek people‚ distinguished by a well-marked dialect and by their subdivision. The Dorian people are traditionally acknowledged as the conquerors of the Peloponnese (in the period 1100–1000 bc).In Greek tradition‚ the Dorians were thought to have gained their name from Doris‚ a small district in central Greece. The palaces were destroyed by Dorians who had been in the Peloponnesus all along
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