Week of 27 November: Discussion Questions by Members of English/History of Art 151

Aubrey Beardsley

• The Ambiguous Aesthete: Beardsley's "The Ballad of a Barber"
• Beardsley's The Toilet of Salome : A Comparison of the Two Versions

Max Beerbohm

• Let us dance and be glad"! — Artifice and Incongruity in Beerbohm's "A Defence of Cosmetics"

Ernest Dowson

• Calm, Sad, Secure — the "Nuns of Perpetual Adoration"

Oscar Wilde

• The Need for Contrasts in Oscar Wilde's "The Harlot's House"
• Voyeurism: Oscar Wilde's "The Harlot's House"
• A painting in words: Wilde's "Impression du Matin"
• "Symphony in Yellow" — Painting a Picture
• The Duration of Beauty in Wilde's "Les Ballons"
• The Riddle of "The Sphinx": Difficult Questions and Troublesome Answers
• Entendre? Jano's faces in Oscar Wilde's "Pan — Double Villanelle"

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