2021-02-27 at 19:30:22
Cristina Amarilis Bota from University of Oradea, Faculty of Letters
will present Art and Morality in Quo Vadis and The Picture of Dorian Gray
Abstract
This paper aims to comparatively analyse the views and the links between art and morality in Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero and The Picture of Dorian Gray, starting from the historical and theoretical background of the novels, and focusing on the similarities and differences between their themes and motifs, influences, and the meanings of the novels’ endings. Ultimately, the goal is to find out whether the true and most treasured aestheticism is morally inherent, more than pleasing the eye, if it yields elegance of the soul.
In section
British and Commonwealth Literature