Answer the following questions (max. seven lines ) I TERNA
1) “ The artist is the creator of beautiful things”- “All art is quite useless”- “ There is no such things as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That’s all.”
Discuss these epigrammatic sentences considered the basic principles of Aestheticism.
2) What are the main features of Shaw’s works?
3) Give a definition of the two types of “interior monologue” used by the Modernist writers.
II TERNA
1) Wilde’s fame partly depends on his verbal humour. Discuss the stylistic features of the play “The Importance of Being Earnest”.
2) Dickens is the most representative writer of the Victorian Age. Discuss the main themes and features of his novel “Hard Times”
3) The main themes in “ Pygmalion” by Shaw.