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This paper examines the cross-fertilization between different art forms in two of Oscar Wilde's city lyrics: 'Impression du Matin' (1881) and "Symphony in Yellow" (1889). These impressionistic poems epitomise Wilde's synaesthetic sensibility and transformative intertextuality whereby the poet translates his visual and aural experiences into poetry. The paper also investigates the functions of intermediality in Wilde's aesthetic and ideological standpoint, and demonstrates how the Wildean dandy figure, aligned with the Baudelairean "painter of modern life", conveys his perception of metropolitan modernity in these two poems of intermedial significance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper questions the configurations in which contemporary European cultural policies attribute explicit positive values to culture. It begins with a reflection on the meaning of value, before identifying, through the analysis of a corpus of scientific articles, books and research reports as well as press articles, the numerous values identifiable in the history of cultural policies. From this collection, we propose a principle of classification into five major families of values: democracy, identity, well-being, aesthetics and economy. Finally, we describe the dynamics of emergence and transformation of the values attributed to culture in historical configurations, through three examples: the valuation of heritage, the conflicts over the values of democracy, and the values underpinning the concept of sustainable development. Our exploratory research shows that values already present in the twentieth century are becoming increasingly important in cultural policies, without taking precedence over values with which they can compete or, on the contrary, find a form of compatibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]