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\"creation&recreaton\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Yesterday’s Quote of the Day was from Wilde’s “The Critic as Artist.”\u00a0 Here’s what Frye has to say about it in Creation and Recreation<\/em>:<\/p>\n

In my first chapter I quoted a passage from Oscar Wilde’s essay “The Critic as Artist.”\u00a0 This essay builds up an argument that seems to make an exaggerated and quite unrealistic importance out of the reader of literature, the critic being the representative reader.\u00a0 He is paralleled with the artist in a way that seems to give him an equal share at least in what the artist is doing.\u00a0 Here again Wilde is writing from the point of view of a later generation.\u00a0 For many centuries the centre of gravity in literature was the hero, the man whose deeds the poet celebrated.\u00a0 As society slowly changed its shape, the hero modulated to the “character,” and in Wilde’s day it was still the creation of the character, as one sees it so impressively in Shakespeare, Dickens, and Browning, that was the primary mark of poetic power.\u00a0 At the same time the Romantic movement had brought with it a shift of interest from the hero to the poet himself, as not merely the creator of the hero but as the person whose inner life was the real, as distinct from the projected, subject of the poem.\u00a0 There resulted an extraordinary mystique of creativity, in which the artist became somehow a unique if not actually superior species of human being, with qualities of prophet, genius, wise man, and social leader.\u00a0 Wilde realized that in a short time the centre of gravity in literature critical theory would shift again, this time from the poet to the reader.\u00a0 The dividing line in English literature is probably Finnegans Wake<\/em>, where it is so obvious that the reader has a heroic role to play.\u00a0 (CW <\/em>4, 75)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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