I. Introduction Various definitions of art and its function were given during the nineteenth century. Perhaps, no other literary era has dealt more with the purpose of art. Accordingly, several movements including Realism, Pre-Raphaelites, Aesthetic movement proclaimed their own ideologies of it. These different ideas of art presented a ... Wilde's attitude and interpretation of art in the novel. II. Aestheticism and its reflection in the novel Since the classical times, the Greek term 'Aesthetics' is given to the study and the nature of the beautiful. "In the second half of the ninetee...

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