The Reception Of Oscar Wilde In Europe

Author : Stefano Evangelista
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441173683

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The Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe by Stefano Evangelista Pdf

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) is now widely recognised not only as one of the most representative figures of the British fin de siècle, but as one of the most influential Anglophone authors of the nineteenth century. In Britain Wilde suffered a long period of comparative neglect following the scandal of his conviction for 'gross indecency' in 1895; and it is only recently that his works have been reassessed. But while Wilde was subjected to silence in Britain, he became a European phenomenon. His famous dandyism, his witticisms, paradoxes and provocations became the object of imitation and parody; his controversial aesthetic doctrines were a strong influence not only on decadent writers, but also on the development of symbolist and modernist cultures. This collection of essays by leading international scholars and translators traces the cultural impact of Oscar Wilde's work across Europe, from the earliest translations and performances of his works in the 1890s to the present day.

Author : Stefano Evangelista
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781847060051

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The Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe by Stefano Evangelista Pdf

Comprehensive volume of international research on the European reception of Oscar Wilde.

Author : Joseph Bristow
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Homosexuality and literature
ISBN : 9780821418383

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Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture by Joseph Bristow Pdf

This book explores the meteoric rise, sudden fall, and legendary resurgence of this influential writer's reputation. In the years leading up to his two-year imprisonment, Wilde stood among the foremost dramatists in London. But after he was sent down for committing acts of "gross indecency" it seemed likely that social embarrassment would inflict irreparable damage to his legacy. He died in comparative obscurity. Little could he have realized that in five years his name would come back into popular circulation thanks to the success of Richard Strauss's opera Salomé and Robert Ross's edition of De Profundi. With each succeeding decade, the twentieth century continued to honor Wilde's name by keeping his plays in repertory, producing dramas about his life, adapting his works for film, and devising countless biographical and critical studies of his writings.

Author : Sandra Mayer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Johannes Weber
Publisher : University of Bamberg Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783863093488

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“Like some damned Juggernaut” by Johannes Weber Pdf

Author : Michael F. Davis,Petra Dierkes-Thrun
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351108898

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Wilde’s Other Worlds by Michael F. Davis,Petra Dierkes-Thrun Pdf

Taking its cue from Baudelaire’s important essay "The Painter of Modern Life," in which Baudelaire imagines the modern artist as a "man of the world," this collection of essays presents Oscar Wilde as a "man of the world" who eschewed provincial concerns, cultural conventions, and narrow national interests in favor of the wider world and other worlds—both real and imaginary, geographical and historical, physical and intellectual—which provided alternative sites for exploration and experience, often including alternative gender expression or sexual alterity. Wilde had an unlimited curiosity and a cosmopolitan spirit of inquiry that traveled widely across borders, ranging freely over space and time. He entered easily and wholly into other countries, other cultures, other national literatures, other periods, other mythologies, other religions, other disciplines, and other modes of representation, and was able to fully inhabit and navigate them, quickly apprehending the conventions by which they operate. The fourteen essays in this volume offer fresh critical-theoretical and historical perspectives not just on key connections and aspects of Wilde’s oeuvre itself, but on the development of Wilde’s remarkable worldliness in dialogue with many other worlds: contemporary developments in art, science and culture, as well as with other national literatures and cultures. Perhaps as a direct result of this cosmopolitan spirit, Wilde and Wilde’s works have been taken up across the globe, as the essays on Wilde’s reception in India, Japan and Hollywood illustrate. Many of the essays gathered here are based on groundbreaking archival research, including some never-seen-before illustrations. Together, they have the potential to open up important new comparative, transnational, and historical perspectives on Wilde that can shape and sharpen our future understanding of his work and impact.

Author : Kristin Mahoney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009022446

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Queer Kinship after Wilde by Kristin Mahoney Pdf

Queer Kinship after Wilde investigates the afterlife of the Decadent Movement's ideas about kinship, desire, and the family during the modernist period within a global context. Drawing on archival materials, including diaries, correspondence, unpublished manuscripts, and photograph albums, it tells the story of individuals with ties to late-Victorian Decadence and Oscar Wilde who turned to the fin-de-siècle past for inspiration as they attempted to operate outside the heteronormative boundaries restricting the practice of marriage and the family. These post-Victorian Decadents and Decadent modernists engaged in translation, travel, and transnational collaboration in pursuit of different models of connection that might facilitate their disentanglement from conventional sexual and gender ideals. Queer Kinship after Wilde attends to the successes and failures that resulted from these experiments, the new approaches to affiliation inflected by a cosmopolitan or global perspective that occurred within these networks as well as the practices marked by Decadence's troubling patterns of Orientalism and racial fetishism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780198875376

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Wilde in the Dream Factory by Anonim Pdf

Wilde in the Dream Factory studies the influence of Oscar Wilde's work on American cinema and culture, with close readings of Wilde's works alongside screwball comedies and film noir of the 1930s and 40s.

Author : Robert Hampson,Véronique Pauly
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474241106

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The Reception of Joseph Conrad in Europe by Robert Hampson,Véronique Pauly Pdf

Born and brought up in Poland bilingually in French and Polish but living for most of his professional life in England and writing in English, Joseph Conrad was, from the start, as much a European writer as he was a British one and his work – from his earliest fictions through Heart of Darkness, Nostromo and The Secret Agent to his later novels– has repeatedly been the focal point of discussions about key issues of the modern age. With chapters written by leading international scholars, this book provides a wide-ranging survey of the reception, translation and publication history of Conrad's works across Europe. Covering reviews and critical discussion, and with some attention to adaptations in other media, these chapters situate Conrad's works in their social and political context. The book also includes bibliographies of key translations in each of the European countries covered and a timeline of Conrad's reception throughout the continent.

Author : Clair Rowden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317082279

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Performing Salome, Revealing Stories by Clair Rowden Pdf

With its first public live performance in Paris on 11 February 1896, Oscar Wilde's Salomé took on female embodied form that signalled the start of 'her' phenomenal journey through the history of the arts in the twentieth century. This volume explores Salome's appropriation and reincarnation across the arts - not just Wilde's heroine, nor Richard Strauss's - but Salome as a cultural icon in fin-de-siècle society, whose appeal for ever new interpretations of the biblical story still endures today. Using Salome as a common starting point, each chapter suggests new ways in which performing bodies reveal alternative stories, narratives and perspectives and offer a range and breadth of source material and theoretical approaches. The first chapter draws on the field of comparative literature to investigate the inter-artistic interpretations of Salome in a period that straddles the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the Modernist era. This chapter sets the tone for the rest of the volume, which develops specific case studies dealing with censorship, reception, authorial reputation, appropriation, embodiment and performance. As well as the Viennese premiere of Wilde's play, embodied performances of Salome from the period before the First World War are considered, offering insight into the role and agency of performers in the production and complex negotiation of meaning inherent in the role of Salome. By examining important productions of Strauss's Salome since 1945, and more recent film interpretations of Wilde's play, the last chapters explore performance as a cultural practice that reinscribes and continuously reinvents the ideas, icons, symbols and gestures that shape both the performance itself, its reception and its cultural meaning.

Author : Martin Fitzpatrick,Peter Jones
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781350012554

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The Reception of Edmund Burke in Europe by Martin Fitzpatrick,Peter Jones Pdf

Over the last fifty years the life and work of Edmund Burke (1729-1797) has received sustained scholarly attention and debate. The publication of the complete correspondence in ten volumes and the nine volume edition of Burke's Writings and Speeches have provided material for the scholarly reassessment of his life and works. Attention has focused in particular on locating his ideas in the history of eighteenth-century theory and practice and the contexts of late eighteenth-century conservative thought. This book broadens the focus to examine the many sided interest in Burke's ideas primarily in Europe, and most notably in politics and aesthetics. It draws on the work of leading international scholars to present new perspectives on the significance of Burke's ideas in European politics and culture.

Author : Geert Lernout,Wim Van Mierlo
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 1182 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781847146014

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The Reception of James Joyce in Europe by Geert Lernout,Wim Van Mierlo Pdf

A major scholarly collection of international research on the reception of James Joyce in Europe

Author : Anonim
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Books and reading
ISBN : 9780826458254

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The Reception of James Joyce in Europe: Germany, Northern and East Central Europe by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephen Bann
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826468468

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The Reception of Walter Pater in Europe by Stephen Bann Pdf

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Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015066062384

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The Writings of Oscar Wilde ... by Oscar Wilde Pdf