the beauty of the beast in picture of Dorian Grey2
CONTENTS
Introduction………………………………………………………………………...3
Part 1. Oscar Wild – the novelist of the England…………………………………..5
1.1. Literary works of O. Wild……………………………………...……………...6
1.2. The novel ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ and its significance…………………9
1. 3. Aestheticism in the novel …………………………………………………...10
Part 2. Lexical and syntactical stylistic devices used in the novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by O. Wild…………………………………………………………14
2.1. Phonetic stylistic devices……………………………………………………..14
2.2. Lexical expressive means and stylistic devices………………………………15 2.3. Syntactical expressive means and stylistic devices………………………….20
Conclusions……………………………………………………………………….25
List of references………………………………………………………………….26
Introduction
Oscar Wilde is one of the most famous writers of the nineteenth century. He is an author, and great wit. He preached the importance of style in both life and art, and he attached Victorian narrow-mindedness and complacency. Most writers, whatever their professions, wrote with something of the emphasis and authority of the schoolmaster addressing his pupils. In spite of this common feature, Victorian writers are very different in their styles. They were individualists, and each had his own personality, which was strongly presented in their style. [2, 217]
Oscar Wilde was one of the Victorian aesthetes and tried to write the work that should be beautiful in its colour and cadence. His writing is highly wrought. Despite the fact that O. Wilde has probably been written about more than most nineteenth-century writers, his place and reputation continue to be uncertain.
Wilde’s extraordinary personality and wit have so dominated the imaginations of most biographers and critics that their estimates of his work have too often consisted of sympathetic tributes to a writer whose literary production was little more than a faint reflection of his brilliant talk or the manifestation of what a reviewer for the “Times Literary Supplement” called his
Introduction………………………………………………………………………...3
Part 1. Oscar Wild – the novelist of the England…………………………………..5
1.1. Literary works of O. Wild……………………………………...……………...6
1.2. The novel ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ and its significance…………………9
1. 3. Aestheticism in the novel …………………………………………………...10
Part 2. Lexical and syntactical stylistic devices used in the novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by O. Wild…………………………………………………………14
2.1. Phonetic stylistic devices……………………………………………………..14
2.2. Lexical expressive means and stylistic devices………………………………15 2.3. Syntactical expressive means and stylistic devices………………………….20
Conclusions……………………………………………………………………….25
List of references………………………………………………………………….26
Introduction
Oscar Wilde is one of the most famous writers of the nineteenth century. He is an author, and great wit. He preached the importance of style in both life and art, and he attached Victorian narrow-mindedness and complacency. Most writers, whatever their professions, wrote with something of the emphasis and authority of the schoolmaster addressing his pupils. In spite of this common feature, Victorian writers are very different in their styles. They were individualists, and each had his own personality, which was strongly presented in their style. [2, 217]
Oscar Wilde was one of the Victorian aesthetes and tried to write the work that should be beautiful in its colour and cadence. His writing is highly wrought. Despite the fact that O. Wilde has probably been written about more than most nineteenth-century writers, his place and reputation continue to be uncertain.
Wilde’s extraordinary personality and wit have so dominated the imaginations of most biographers and critics that their estimates of his work have too often consisted of sympathetic tributes to a writer whose literary production was little more than a faint reflection of his brilliant talk or the manifestation of what a reviewer for the “Times Literary Supplement” called his
References: 1.1. Literary works of O. Wild Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin on October 16, 1854