Is Art Useless? / Reading Oscar Wilde's Preface Together

📚 Read Oscar Wilde with Hardcore Literature:   / about   ———————————— 🎙️ https://open.spotify.com/show/70IZA24... (Subscribe to the Hardcore Literature Podcast on iTunes & Spotify) 🏫 https://hardcore-university.teachable... (Hardcore University, Exam Preparation Courses) ✍🏼 https://benjaminmcevoy.com My Personal Website ———————————— Hardcore Literature Lecture Series ———————————— 📔Contents Page: https://cutt.ly/CmNhRY3 🎖️ War and Peace: https://cutt.ly/U3nzGma 🎭 Shakespeare Project: https://cutt.ly/B3nxHH7 🐳 Moby Dick: https://cutt.ly/K3nzVKf ☄️ Blood Meridian: https://cutt.ly/P3nz6Qp 🍂 Wuthering Heights: https://cutt.ly/N3nxxYt 🇮🇪 Ulysses: https://cutt.ly/x3nxQmN 🚂 Anna Karenina: https://cutt.ly/vmNhAWv 💀 Crime and Punishment: https://cutt.ly/rmNhFt5 ⚓ Persuasion: https://cutt.ly/amNhX7b ☕ In Search of Lost Time: https://cutt.ly/5mNh8oD ⚔️ The Hero’s Journey: https://cutt.ly/UmNjrE3 🌸 Siddharta: https://cutt.ly/YmNjuzi 🎠 Don Quixote: https://cutt.ly/cmNjoK4 ❤️Shakespeare’s Sonnets: https://cutt.ly/nmNlW7V 🇫🇷 Les Misérables: https://cutt.ly/J3YixoA 🕯️ The Turn of the Screw: https://cutt.ly/nToAQQ3 🖋️ Dickens Seasonal Read: https://cutt.ly/9ToAybt 📖 Middlemarch Serial Reading: https://tinyurl.com/45rv965c ———————————— Happy reading! 0:00 the obscenity trial of Oscar Wilde 1:00 the artist is the creator of beautiful things 1:20 beauty vs sublime 1:40 Plato and Socratic dialogues 2:10 to reveal art and conceal the artist is the artist's aim 2:30 Tolstoy and Anna Karenina 3:00 Victor Hugo, Sterne, Fielding, Austen 4:20 the critic of beautiful things 5:30 the need for positive critics 6:00 art criticism as the highest mode of autobiography 6:40 finding ugly meanings in beautiful things 9:30 James Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son 10:30 art for art's sake, symbolism, fin de siècle 11:20 protest novels and social utility 12:00 Tolstoy's What Is Art? 12:00 there is no such thing as an immoral book 13:00 the rage of Caliban 15:00 le mot juste, Joyce, Conrad, and the tension in art 16:00 ethical sympathies as unpardonable mannerisms of style 17:00 the condition of music and novel as highest art form 18:00 surface and symbol 19:20 disagreement about literature 20:00 the only excuse for making a useless thing Hardcore Literature Book Club:   / hardcoreliterature   Oscar Wilde Podcast: https://benjaminmcevoy.com/oscar-wild...