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Aestheticism

Meaning in literature, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In literature, Aestheticism means: A nineteenth-century movement emphasizing artistic beauty rather than moral instruction.

In Turkish: Estetizm, estetikçilik

How it is used

Use when discussing artistic beauty and art's independence from practical or moral demands.

Example sentences

  1. The essay relates Aestheticism to the poet's refusal to give the reader a moral lesson.

    The poet values the artistic experience without making instruction its goal.

  2. Our seminar examined how Aestheticism shaped the novel's attention to color and texture.

    Sensory detail is considered as an artistic priority in the work.

Common collocations

  • Victorian Aestheticism
  • the Aesthetic Movement
  • literary movementA group of writers in a particular period who share similar ideas, styles and aims, such as Romanticism, Realism or Modernism.
  • imageryDescriptive language that appeals to the senses, such as sight, sound, smell, taste and touch, so that readers can picture or feel what is described.

More terms: Literary Movements

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