No outside resources needed, only use these 3 readings to write, need 2 pages. Need 3 quotations.

Here is the writing instruction:

Critical responses:

Now that we have had one week of class to consider the role of beauty and the social good in art (or the lack of it), what is your own aesthetic position in relation to Oscar Wilde, Susan Sontag, Matthew Arnold, and/or John Ruskin? (All these readings are post in the attached file).

You will respond to this prompt by choosing at least three quotations from texts which we have read or discussed in class. In 2 full pages, written in paragraph form, you will interpret the prompt through relevant texts from our class; as you do this, you should substantiate how the quotations you have chosen are representative of what you find intriguing, compelling, persuasive, problematic, or are otherwise representative of your understanding of these texts as a whole.

You should use MLA in-line citations for all quotations. You do not need to include a bibliography or works cited page. A good rule of thumb is if the source you are citing was physically printed with page numbers then you should include the page number in parenthesis () after the " " quotation; if it is published on a web page without page numbers it does not. If the source isn't a literary source but a visual or audio source then you do not.

Of texts we have read so far: Matthew Arnold, Charles Baudelaire, and Julia Kristeva have page numbers; Oscar Wilde, Arthur Rimbaud, and John Ruskin do not.

Here are two citation examples:

Although I disagree with Matthew Arnold when he says that our consideration of art should only focus on "the best that is known and thought in the world" (150), I still believe that ~~~~. For example, ~~~.

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Since watching Roger Corman's A Bucket of Blood, I have been trying to decide how Oscar Wilde would have reacted to the events of the film, given that he contends, "No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Although his argument is ~~~~, I think this film complicates this position by ~~~~. In one scene, ~~~~~.

Please use a serif font (if it looks like Times New Roman, its a serif font, while if it looks like this text, it is a san-serif font) and 1 inch margins. Please upload your document as either a Word .doc or .docx file or as a PDF document.