blog 1- term 2020

  Wilde and The Importance of Being Earnest   1)What did you learn about Wilde and "Art for Art's sake" (article on the blog). Use your own words.   2) Who are the different characters and how are they related?  3) Who is Bunbury? What does "Bunburying" mean? Use your own words.  4) What makes Act 1 funny. Use different examples.

And the winner is.... "The idea of progress" send a recording (4-5minutes) Some advice: - choose about three documents studied in class - ask a personal question - do not read

Oscar Wilde’s Role in Literature’s “Aesthetic Movement”  from the Lecture Series: Victorian Britain , February 27, 2019  adapted from an article by By Patrick N. Allitt, Ph.D., Emory University The Aesthetic Movement was an artistic expression of “art for art’s sake.” Disavowing notions of literature’s societal necessity, Oscar Wilde wrote in opposition to Dickensian literature—and influenced generations.  One of the English literary exponents of the Aesthetic Movement was Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde was one of the first great celebrities who was famous for being famous. He was already a famous person before he had any literary achievements at all. He was a deliberate debunker of Victorian gravity and solemnity. He was Irish, born in Dublin in 1854. He made a great success of his studies at Trinity College, Dublin, and won a scholarship to go to Magdalen College, Oxford. When he was there, he got a first class degree in the classics and won a Newdigate Prize for poetry...

 COMPRE ECRITE: Merci de bien vouloir taper vos questions (sous Word ou directement dans le corps du mail) afin que je puisse les corriger. Questions: a) What sort of text is it? Justify. b) Who is the narrator ? Who is he addressing? c) Where is he? Justify with a quote from the text. d) What did he do before? What happened to him? e)  What does he look like today? f)  Which vision of sport does he give? g) What do you think of the title "Hero"? h) According to you what is the author's message?