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“It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.”

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Aubrey Beardsley was an English artist and illustrator, recognized for his distinctive, stylized drawings and his role in the Aesthetic Movement. Born on August 21, 1872, and dying on March 16, 1898, Beardsley's work was marked by its elegance, intricate designs, and a sense of decadence that would later inspire Art Nouveau. more

“Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to interpret what comes next, but what comes next may retrospectively transform our original understanding, highlighting some features of it and backgrounding others.”

May Reading Next Understanding Movement Originals Affair Features Speculation Initials Straightforward Linear Cumulative Frame Of Reference Highlighting

Book:Literary Theory: An Introduction

Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction

“What was needed was a literary theory which, while preserving the formalist bent of New Criticism, its dogged attention to literature as aesthetic object rather than social practice, would make something a good deal more systematic and 'scientific' out of all this. The answer arrived in 1957, in the shape of the Canadian Northrop Fryes mighty 'totalization' of all literary genres, Anatomy of Criticism .”

Literature Social Answers Deals Attention Practice Objects Theory Needed Shapes Criticism Genre Aesthetic Bent Systematic Anatomy Literary Theory Literary Genre

Book:Literary Theory: An Introduction

Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction

“Reading a text is more like tracing this process of constant flickering than it is like counting the beads on a necklace.”

Reading Process Constant Counting Beads Necklaces Tracing

Book:Literary Theory: An Introduction

Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction

Quote by Aubrey Beardsley

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