Rediscovering Oscar Wilde

Author : Constantin-George Sandulescu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010535032

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Rediscovering Oscar Wilde by Constantin-George Sandulescu Pdf

In the same way that students of Shakespeare discuss their "Supreme Quartet" of plays, so Irish Studies has its own quartet of writers, Yeats, Joyce, Beckett and Wilde, whose fame is outstanding and worldwide. The inclusion of Wilde in the quartet may surprise some, but it is an incontrovertible fact that scholars are coming to appreciate Wilde's importance as a major influence on 20th century literature. Over the past years, conferences on all four members of this Irish quartet have been organized by the Princess Grace Irish Library of Monaco (the proceedings of each being published in this series), the most recent, on Wilde, in 1993. This collection of papers given at that conference, covers every aspect of Wilde's oeuvre, not only considering his plays, poetry and novels, but his family, his influence on writers both in English (such as Joyce and Stoppard) and in other languages (including Marti, Dario, Borges and Lispector). How influential and far-reaching he has become can be seen by the nationalities of those who attended the conference and contributed papers: Antonio Ballesteros Gonzalez, Mariano Baselga, Pia Brinzeu, Edward Burns, Richard Allen Cave, Davis Coakley, Jean M. Ellis D'Allessandro, Masolino D' Amico, Lawrence Danson, Denis Donoghue, Joseph Donoghue, Irene Eynat-Confino, Michael Patrick Gillespie, Robert Gordon, Warwick Gould, Merlin Holland, Joel H. Kaplan, Patricia Kellogg-Dennis, Melissa Knox, Jacques de Langlade, Donald Lawler, Jerusha Mccormack, Bart J. Moore-Gilbert, Isobel Murray, Sylvia Ostermann, Norman Page, Kerry Powell, Maria Pilar Pulido, Peter Raby, Gerd Rohmann, Roy Rosenstein, Neil Sammells, Ronald Schuchard, Theorharis Constantine Theoharis, Deirdre Toomey, Emmaneul Vernadakis, and Marie-Noelle Zeender. This is the eighth volume in the Princess Grace Irish Library Series.

Author : Ian Small
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015050743759

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Oscar Wilde by Ian Small Pdf

This study of Oscar Wilde updates and reconceptualizes the bibliographic objectives of Oscar Wilde Revalued, and surveys research on Wilde from 1992-2000 in a more explicitly evaluative manner.

Author : Melissa Knox
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 157113042X

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Oscar Wilde in the 1990s by Melissa Knox Pdf

An examination of the most significant literary criticism on Wilde at the turn of the century. In 1891, Oscar Wilde defined 'the highest criticism' as 'the record of one's own soul, and insisted that only by 'intensifying his own personality' could the critic interpret the personality and work of others. This book exploreswhat Wilde meant by that statement, arguing that it provides the best standard for judging literary criticism about Wilde a century after his death. Melissa Knox examines a range of Wilde criticism in English -- including the work of Lawrence Danson, Michael Patrick Gillespie, Ed Cohen, and Julia Prewitt Brown. Applying Wilde's standards to his critics, Knox discovers that the best of them take to heart Wilde's idea of the aim of criticism -- 'to see theobject as in itself it really is not.' By this, Wilde appreciates Walter Pater's profound observation that everyone sees through a 'thick wall of personality' and that, therefore, objectivity as conceived by Matthew Arnold does not exist. Admiring Pater, Wilde became a prophet for Freud, his exact contemporary. Their intellectual sympathies, made obvious in Knox's exegesis, help to make the case for Wilde as a modern, not a Victorian. Melissa Knox's book Oscar Wilde: A Long and Lovely Suicide was published in 1994. She teaches at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

Author : Paul K. Saint-Amour
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801457968

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The Copywrights by Paul K. Saint-Amour Pdf

They borrow from published works without attribution. They remake literary creation in the image of consumption. They celebrate the art of scissors and paste. Who are these outlaws? Postmodern culture-jammers or file-sharing teens? No, they are the Copywrights—Victorian and modernist writers, among them Oscar Wilde and James Joyce, whose work wrestled with the intellectual property laws of their day. In a highly readable and thought-provoking book that places today's copyright wars in historical context, Paul K. Saint-Amour asks: Would their art have survived the copyright laws of the new millennium? Revisiting major works by Wilde and Joyce as well as centos assembled by anonymous writers from existing poems, Saint-Amour sees the period 1830–1930 as a time when imaginative literature became aware of its own status as intellectual property and began to register that awareness in its subjects, plots, and formal architecture. The authors of these self-reflexive literary texts were more conscious than their precursors of the role played by consumption in both the composition and the consecration of literature. The texts in question became, in turn, part of what Saint-Amour characterizes as a "counterdiscourse" to extensive monopoly copyright, a vocal minority that insisted on a broadly conceived public domain not only as indispensable to free expression and fresh creation but as a good in itself. Recent events such as the court battle over the Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA), which extends copyright terms by 20 years, the patenting of the human genome and of genetically altered seed lines, and high-stakes controversies over literary parody have increased public awareness of intellectual property law. In The Copywrights, Saint-Amour challenges the notion that copyright's function ends with the provision of private incentives to creation and innovation. The cases he examines lead him to argue that copyright performs a range of political, emotional, and even sacred functions that are too often ignored and that what seems to have emerged as copyright's primary function—the creation of private property incentives—must not be an end in itself.

Author : Uwe Böker,Richard Corballis,Julie A. Hibbard
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Authors, Irish
ISBN : 9042014008

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The Importance of Reinventing Oscar by Uwe Böker,Richard Corballis,Julie A. Hibbard Pdf

The present collection of essays is the outcome of the Oscar Wilde conference held at the Technical University of Dresden, 31 August - 3 September 2000. The papers cover a wide range of historical and comparative aspects: they look into the status of Wilde as poet, dramatist, essayist and intellectual during his own times as well as investigate the meaning of his work for subsequent writers and critics, thus, giving an outline of the Wildean history of literary reception, intellectual discourse and media transformation. Intellectually brilliant and challenging, Oscar Wilde had been a favourite of the late Victorians, performing the roles of the dandy and the poet of art for art's sake. However, due to his questioning of prevalent moral double standards and his insistence on the autonomy of art, he was indicted for gross indecencies, convicted, and sent to prison. Instead of being ostracised, he became a source of inspiration for writers and artists on the British isles as well as on the European continent. The papers in this volume explore such topics as Wilde's concepts of socialism and aestheticism, his fashioning of the femme fatale and of the dandy, his use of fashion and of simulation, his impact on modernism and postmodernism as well as on genres such as crime writing and fictional biography, and the influence of Wilde on writers such as James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Joe Orton, Peter Ackroyd, Tom Stoppard, David Hare and Mark Ravenhill. Other papers focus on the reception of Wilde in Russia, former Yugoslavia, Hungary and Germany as well as on cinematic and Internet representations of Wilde. Critical and creative responses vary from the general to the specific - from traditional assessments to analyses of the arts of camp, parody, and pastiche; thus, indicative of the (sub)cultural appropriation of 'Saint Oscar' (Terry Eagleton).

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 957 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : CTK.
ISBN : OCLC:802626489

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The Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Author : J. Killeen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230503557

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The Faiths of Oscar Wilde by J. Killeen Pdf

An original and energetic examination of the relationship between theology, faith, religious history and national politics in the works of Oscar Wilde, which focuses in particular on his life-long attraction to Catholicism. Wilde's Protestant heritage is also scrutinised, and its continued influence on him, as well as his antagonism towards it, is related to the narrative modes he chose and the philosophical positions he adopted.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1216 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:855271062

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Complete Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Author : Kimberly J. Stern
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030246044

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Oscar Wilde by Kimberly J. Stern Pdf

Oscar Wilde: A Literary Life tracks the intellectual biography of one of the most influential minds of the nineteenth century. Rather than focusing on the dramatic events of Wilde’s life, this volume documents Wilde’s impressive forays into education, religion, science, philosophy, and social reform. In so doing, it provides an accessible and yet detailed account that reflects Wilde’s own commitment to the “contemplative life.” Suitable for seasoned readers as well as those new to the study of his work, Oscar Wilde: A Literary Life brings Wilde’s intellectual investments into sharp focus, while placing him within a cultural landscape that was always evolving and often fraught with contradiction.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1039420202

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The Plays of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Author : Graham Price
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319933450

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Oscar Wilde and Contemporary Irish Drama by Graham Price Pdf

This book is about the Wildean aesthetic in contemporary Irish drama. Through elucidating a discernible Wildean strand in the plays of Brian Friel, Tom Murphy, Thomas Kilroy, Marina Carr and Frank McGuinness, it demonstrates that Oscar Wilde's importance to Ireland's theatrical canon is equal to that of W. B. Yeats, J. M. Synge and Samuel Beckett. The study examines key areas of the Wildean aesthetic: his aestheticizing of experience via language and self-conscious performance; the notion of the dandy in Wildean texts and how such a figure is engaged with in today's dramas; and how his contribution to the concept of a ‘verbal theatre’ has influenced his dramatic successors. It is of particular pertinence to academics and postgraduate students in the fields of Irish drama and Irish literature, and for those interested in the work of Oscar Wilde, Brian Friel, Tom Murphy, Thomas Kilroy, Marina Carr and Frank McGuinness. okokpoj

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007386963

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Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Collins Classics) by Oscar Wilde Pdf

The Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wilde’s works.

Author : Sandra Mayer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004370463

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Oscar Wilde in Vienna by Sandra Mayer Pdf

In Oscar Wilde in Vienna, Sandra Mayer examines the reception and performance history of Oscar Wilde’s dramatic works on Viennese stages from the turn of the twentieth century up to the present.

Author : Frederick S. Roden
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230524309

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Palgrave Advances in Oscar Wilde Studies by Frederick S. Roden Pdf

Palgrave Advances in Oscar Wilde Studies is a comprehensive guide to recent critical approaches. Topics covered include Gay Studies, Feminist Criticism, Material Culture, Religion, Philosophy, Performance Studies, Aestheticism, Biography, Textual Studies and Postcolonial Theory. The book is designed to acquaint readers of all levels with the history of scholarship in a range of fields and suggest ways that Wilde's work offer new areas for research. The collection also provides a Chronology and detailed bibliography.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1036768033

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Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde Pdf