Chronology Entry
Year
1922
Text
[Wilde, Oscar]. [The picture of Dorian Gray : Preface]. Yu Dafu yi. [ID D27658].
Seine Übersetzung des Buches wurde nie publiziert.
Zhou Xiaoyi : Yu Dafu admired Wilde's work very much and cited him from time to time in his works, and treasured his aphorisms such as 'all art is quite useless, there is no such thing as moral or immoral art' and others. Yu's love of Wilde is fired in many ways as Wilde is also a social rebel and further, he is a rebel with some clear social and political ideas and artistic principles. He observes that 'the first rebellious spirit which is against the prevalent moralism and formalism in the Victorian age comes from aestheticism that Wilde proposed.
Bonnie S. McDougall : The Preface is a very abbreviated version of Wilde's aesthetic principles, but gives a fair view of that theory of art which was first elaborated in English by Walter Pater, that art is the record of an artist's appreciation or impression of nature or of other works of art, and that the artistic experience is a proper end in itself. Yu Dafu's views on poetry and art are quite different from these : he regarded poetry as the expression of emotion clothed in beauty, and believed that poetry should be an instrument of social change. Only at one point do Wild and his translator meet : both insisted on the irrelevance of moral judgments in and about art. It was probably for this reason that Yu Dafu translated the preface ; like Wilde, he was labeled a decadent by his contemporaries for his obsession with sexual aberrations, and he wrote admiringly of the 'decadents' who contributed to The yellow book.
Seine Übersetzung des Buches wurde nie publiziert.
Zhou Xiaoyi : Yu Dafu admired Wilde's work very much and cited him from time to time in his works, and treasured his aphorisms such as 'all art is quite useless, there is no such thing as moral or immoral art' and others. Yu's love of Wilde is fired in many ways as Wilde is also a social rebel and further, he is a rebel with some clear social and political ideas and artistic principles. He observes that 'the first rebellious spirit which is against the prevalent moralism and formalism in the Victorian age comes from aestheticism that Wilde proposed.
Bonnie S. McDougall : The Preface is a very abbreviated version of Wilde's aesthetic principles, but gives a fair view of that theory of art which was first elaborated in English by Walter Pater, that art is the record of an artist's appreciation or impression of nature or of other works of art, and that the artistic experience is a proper end in itself. Yu Dafu's views on poetry and art are quite different from these : he regarded poetry as the expression of emotion clothed in beauty, and believed that poetry should be an instrument of social change. Only at one point do Wild and his translator meet : both insisted on the irrelevance of moral judgments in and about art. It was probably for this reason that Yu Dafu translated the preface ; like Wilde, he was labeled a decadent by his contemporaries for his obsession with sexual aberrations, and he wrote admiringly of the 'decadents' who contributed to The yellow book.
Mentioned People (2)
Wilde, Oscar
(Dublin 1854-1900 Paris) : Irischer Schriftsteller, Dramatiker, Dichter
Yu, Dafu
(Fuyang, Zhejiang 1896-1945 ermordet Sumatra) : Dichter, Schriftsteller
Subjects
Literature : Occident : Ireland
Documents (2)
| # | Year | Bibliographical Data | Type / Abbreviation | Linked Data |
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| 1 | 1972-1973 | Dougall, Bonny S. Fictional authors, imagery audiences : "The importance of being earnest" in China. = McDougall, Bonnie S. The importance of being earnest in China : early Chinese attitudes towards Oscar Wilde. In : Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia, vol. 9 (1972/73). | Publication / WilO7 |
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| 2 | 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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