The Unmasking Of Oscar Wilde

Author : Joseph Pearce
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681495644

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The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde by Joseph Pearce Pdf

Vilified by fellow Victorians for his sexuality and his dandyism, Oscar Wilde, the great poet, satirist and playwright, is hailed today, in some circles, as a progressive sexual liberator. But this image is not how Wilde saw himself. Joseph Pearce's biography strips away pretensions to show the real man, his aspirations and desires. It uncovers how he was broken by his prison sentence; it probes the deeper thinking behind masterpieces such as The Picture of Dorian Gray and De Profundis; and it traces his fascination with Catholicism through to his eleventh-hour conversion. Pearce removes the masks and reveals the Wilde beneath the surface. He has written a profound, wide-ranging study with many original insights on a great literary figure.

Author : Michèle Mendelssohn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780198802365

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Making Oscar Wilde by Michèle Mendelssohn Pdf

Packed with new evidence, "Making Oscar Wilde" tells the untold story of a local Irish eccentric who became a global cultural icon. This must-read book dramatizes Oscar Wilde's remarkable rise in Victorian England and post-Civil War America. Michele Mendelssohn interweaves biography and social history to reveal a life like no other.

Author : Laura Lee
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 725 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445662596

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Oscar's Ghost by Laura Lee Pdf

The dramatic story of the legal and emotional battle that raged between two of Oscar Wilde's closest friends – both former lovers – following the playwright's death

Author : Richard Ellmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3492223389

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Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann Pdf

Author : Matthew Sturgis
Publisher : Apollo
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 180328434X

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Oscar by Matthew Sturgis Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:155719072

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Complete Works of Oscar Wilde by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Harborough Sherard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433082397807

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The Life of Oscar Wilde by Robert Harborough Sherard Pdf

Author : Richard Ellmann
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Authors, Irish
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003935769

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Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann Pdf

The biography sensitive to the tragic pattern of the story of a great subject: Oscar Wilde - psychologically and sexually complicated, enormously quotable, central to a alluring cultural world and someone whose life assumed an unbearably dramatic shape.

Author : Frank Harris
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1407617281

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Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 (of 2) by Frank Harris Pdf

Author : Kimberly J. Stern
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : J. Killeen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : Joseph Bristow
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319604114

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Oscar Wilde and the Cultures of Childhood by Joseph Bristow Pdf

This is the first collection of critical essays that explores Oscar Wilde’s interest in children’s culture, whether in relation to his famous fairy stories, his life as a caring father to two small boys, his place as a defender of children’s rights within the prison system, his fascination with youthful beauty, and his theological contemplation of what it means to be a child in the eyes of God. The collection also examines the ways in which Wilde’s works—not just his fairy stories—have been adapted for young audiences.

Author : Joseph Pearce
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681493015

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Literary Converts by Joseph Pearce Pdf

Literary Converts is a biographical exploration into the spiritual lives of some of the greatest writers in the English language: Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Waugh, C.S. Lewis, Malcolm Muggeridge, Graham Greene, Edith Sitwell, Siegfried Sassoon, Hilaire Belloc, G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy Sayers, T.S. Eliot and J.R.R. Tolkien. The role of George Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells in intensifying the religious debate despite not being converts themselves is also considered. Many will be intrigued to know more about what inspired their literary heroes; others will find the association of such names with Christian belief surprising or even controversial. Whatever viewpoint we may have, Literary Converts touches on some of the most important questions of the twentieth century, making it a fascinating read.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1036768033

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Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Author : Giles Whiteley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351555463

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Oscar Wilde and the Simulacrum by Giles Whiteley Pdf

Oscar Wilde is more than a name, more than an author. From precocious Oxford undergraduate to cause celebre of the West End of the 1890s, to infamous criminal, the proper name Wilde has become an event in the history of literature and culture. Taking Wilde seriously as a philosopher in his own right, Whiteley's groundbreaking book places his texts into their philosophical context in order to show how Wilde broke from his peers, and in particular from idealism, and challenges recent neo-historicist readings of Wilde which seem content to limit his irruptive power. Using the paradoxical concept of the simulacrum to resituate Wilde's work in relation to both his precursors and his contemporaries, Whiteley's study reads Wilde through Deleuze and postmodern philosophical commentary on the simulacrum. In a series of striking juxtapositions, Whiteley challenges us to rethink both Oscar Wilde's aesthetics and his philosophy, to take seriously both the man and the mask. His philosophy of masks is revealed to figure a truth of a different kind - the simulacra through which Wilde begins to develop and formulate a mature philosophy that constitutes an ethics of joy.