유미주의 문학과 와일드의 1차 재판 (Aestheticism and Wilde’s First Trial)

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This article examined Wilde’s trial in terms of conflict between two distinctive perspectives toward the art. The first perspective was that of Victorian conventional realists. These writers strongly believed that literature is a copy of reality and thus authors should be able to mirror the nature and life and imply a moral lesson at the same time. The second perspective came from the aestheticism at the end of the 19th century which believed that literature exists for its own sake. The aesthetes disapproved the claim that the literature exists for morality, ethics, or politics. Under the assumption that this tense conflict between 19th century conventional realism and aestheticism at the end of 19th century, which preceded 20th century modernism, took place on the stage of Wilde’s trial, this article argues that Wilde’s aestheticism is correct, for his aestheticism revived in the form of modernism in the early 20th century and it still consistently plays a crucial role in contemporary world of criticism, nonetheless the defeat of Wilde in the first trial.

영어초록

This article examined Wilde’s trial in terms of conflict between two distinctive perspectives toward the art. The first perspective was that of Victorian conventional realists. These writers strongly believed that literature is a copy of reality and thus authors should be able to mirror the nature and life and imply a moral lesson at the same time. The second perspective came from the aestheticism at the end of the 19th century which believed that literature exists for its own sake. The aesthetes disapproved the claim that the literature exists for morality, ethics, or politics. Under the assumption that this tense conflict between 19th century conventional realism and aestheticism at the end of 19th century, which preceded 20th century modernism, took place on the stage of Wilde’s trial, this article argues that Wilde’s aestheticism is correct, for his aestheticism revived in the form of modernism in the early 20th century and it still consistently plays a crucial role in contemporary world of criticism, nonetheless the defeat of Wilde in the first trial.

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