These different ideas of art presented a great impact in the poetical development of Oscar Wilde, who agreed and disagreed with some of them, until his critical artist appears with the creation of his own theory of art. ... Under the stimulus of this movement, Wilde introduces two important features, the term 'new-hedonism' and homosexuality which were highly discussed and present a great importance in the analysis of the philosophy and ideology of Wilde in his The Picture of Dorian Gray. ... Even Sibyl's death is seen from a hedonistic perspective, a fact that shocked Basil H...

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A common catch phrase summarizes this idea with "behind every great man, is an even greater woman,"" meaning that in the social hierarchy where men reign supreme, the male platform is built upon the strength of the maternal, held thickly in the metaphorical womb. ... The term magical realism, itself, originates from the pen of German critic, Franz Roh, in 1925, and was used to describe a group of Post Expressionist artists, but later delved into describing a Latin American literary genre popularized from after World War II, to the beginnings of the 1980s, around the time when Allende's H...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate