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Juxtaposing Aesthetic Principles in Joris-Karl Huysmans' against Nature and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
2016. urn:nbn:hr:186:609488
Novko, Ida
University of Rijeka
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English Language and Literature

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Novko, I. (2016). Juxtaposing Aesthetic Principles in Joris-Karl Huysmans' against Nature and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (Undergraduate thesis). Rijeka: University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:186:609488

Novko, Ida. "Juxtaposing Aesthetic Principles in Joris-Karl Huysmans' against Nature and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray." Undergraduate thesis, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2016. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:186:609488

Novko, Ida. "Juxtaposing Aesthetic Principles in Joris-Karl Huysmans' against Nature and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray." Undergraduate thesis, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2016. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:186:609488

Novko, I. (2016). 'Juxtaposing Aesthetic Principles in Joris-Karl Huysmans' against Nature and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray', Undergraduate thesis, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 15 January 2025, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:186:609488

Novko I. Juxtaposing Aesthetic Principles in Joris-Karl Huysmans' against Nature and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray [Undergraduate thesis]. Rijeka: University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2016 [cited 2025 January 15] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:186:609488

I. Novko, "Juxtaposing Aesthetic Principles in Joris-Karl Huysmans' against Nature and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray", Undergraduate thesis, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Rijeka, 2016. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:186:609488

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TitleJuxtaposing Aesthetic Principles in Joris-Karl Huysmans' against Nature and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
AuthorIda Novko
MentorSintija Čuljat (mentor)
GranterUniversity of Rijeka
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English Language and Literature)
Rijeka
Defense date and country2016-09-12, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Abstract
Even before Oscar Wilde revealed under cross-examination that Joris-Karl Huysmans Against Nature was a major influence on his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and the moral downfall of its eponymous protagonist, similarities have been noted between the two narratives and their similar aesthetic principles. Together they form a unison declaration of the fin-de-siècle aesthete who questions the hypocrisy of a society that hides under masks of refined social behaviour. Both novels question conformity, morality and the role of art, often causing enmity among their critics that emerge from all social classes. However, despite their similarities, both works show a unique understanding in depicting the aesthetic experience caused by interacting with objects of aesthetic value, or even creating such items. The protagonists are striving to actively explore the senses and various sensations in order to enhance their experience of life, which ends up evoking ennui in both. This exploration of Aestheticism, the study of beauty, is thus brilliantly merged with Decadence in its exploration of the artificial and self-indulgent behaviour, becoming an in-depth analysis of the fin-de-siècle aesthetic Decadent.
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URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:186:609488
Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major)
Study programme type: university
Study level: undergraduate
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Study programmeTitle: German Language and Literature (double major)
Study programme type: university
Study level: undergraduate
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