Chronology Entry
Year
1922
Text
Zhang, Wentian ; Wang Fuquan. Wangerde jie shao [ID D12195]. [Introducing Oscar Wilde].
Zhou Xiaoyi : Zhang Wentian, an early important critic in Wilde studies, made a similar observation as Lu Xun on Wilde's aesthetic mode of being. He noted that Wilde "devoted his whole life to art, to the religion of beauty". He argues that Wilde did not merely advance an artistic principle, but also put his principle to practice. He practiced his aestheticism in everyday life soon after he graduated from Oxford : "He wears a velvet coat, a loose shirt with a turn-down collar, and a tie of some unusual shade tied in a lavalliere knot. He propagated his aestheticism everywhere, with a sunflower or a lily in hand. How enthusiastic he is ! How full-hearted, how brave !" Here Zhang also related Wilde's aesthetic principle to his eccentric lifestyle, and offered a vivid picture of Wilde as an artist. In his depiction, this artist, reinforced by his personal charm and mysterious character, worships art and condemns social reality.
Zhou Xiaoyi : Zhang Wentian, an early important critic in Wilde studies, made a similar observation as Lu Xun on Wilde's aesthetic mode of being. He noted that Wilde "devoted his whole life to art, to the religion of beauty". He argues that Wilde did not merely advance an artistic principle, but also put his principle to practice. He practiced his aestheticism in everyday life soon after he graduated from Oxford : "He wears a velvet coat, a loose shirt with a turn-down collar, and a tie of some unusual shade tied in a lavalliere knot. He propagated his aestheticism everywhere, with a sunflower or a lily in hand. How enthusiastic he is ! How full-hearted, how brave !" Here Zhang also related Wilde's aesthetic principle to his eccentric lifestyle, and offered a vivid picture of Wilde as an artist. In his depiction, this artist, reinforced by his personal charm and mysterious character, worships art and condemns social reality.
Mentioned People (3)
Wang, Fuquan
(um 1922)
Wilde, Oscar
(Dublin 1854-1900 Paris) : Irischer Schriftsteller, Dramatiker, Dichter
Zhang, Wentian
(Nanhui = Chuansha, Shanghai 1900-1976 im Exil) : Schriftsteller, Dichter, Übersetzer, Generalsekretär der Kommunistischen Partei, Diplomat
Subjects
Literature : Occident : Ireland
Documents (1)
| # | Year | Bibliographical Data | Type / Abbreviation | Linked Data |
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| 1 | 1997 | Zhou, Xiaoyi. Oscar Wilde : an image of artistic self-fashioning in modern China, 1909-1949. In : Images of Westerners in Chinese and Japanese literature : proceedings of the XVth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association‚ Literature as cultural memory, Leiden 1997. Ed. by Hua Meng, Sukehiro Hirakawa. (Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2000). | Publication / WilO4 |
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