Wilde S Other Worlds

Author : Michael F. Davis,Petra Dierkes-Thrun
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Michael F. Davis,Petra Dierkes-Thrun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1351108913

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

Author : Sean O'Toole
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421446547

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Dorian Unbound by Sean O'Toole Pdf

A bold reimagining of the literary history of Decadence through a close examination of the transnational contexts of Oscar Wilde's classic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. Building upon a large body of archival and critical work on Oscar Wilde's only novel, Dorian Unbound offers a new account of the importance of transnational contexts in the forging of Wilde's imagination and the wider genealogy of literary Decadence. Sean O'Toole argues that the attention critics have rightly paid to Wilde's backgrounds in Victorian Aestheticism and French Decadence has had the unintended effect of obscuring a much broader network of transnational contexts. Attention to these contexts allows us to reconsider how we read The Picture of Dorian Gray, what we believe we know about Wilde, and how we understand literary Decadence as both a persistent, highly mobile cultural mode and a precursor to global modernism. In developing a transnational framework for reading Dorian Gray, O'Toole recovers a subterranean network of nineteenth-century cultural movements. At the same time, he joins several active and vital conversations about what it might mean to expand the geographical reach of Victorian studies and to trace the globalization of literature over a longer period of time. Dorian Unbound includes chapters on the Irish Gothic, German historical romance, US magic-picture tradition, and experimental English epigrams, as well as a detailed history and a new close reading of the novel, in an effort to understand Wilde's contribution to a more dynamic idea of Decadence than has been previously known. From its rigorous account of the broad archive of texts that Wilde read and the array of cultural movements from which he drew inspiration in writing Dorian Gray to the novel's afterlives and global resonances, O'Toole paints a richer picture of the author and his famously allusive prose. This book makes a compelling case for a comparative reading of the novel in a global context. It will appeal to historians and admirers of Wilde's career as well as to scholars of nineteenth-century literature, queer and narrative theory, Irish studies, and art history.

Author : Heather Fawcett
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593500149

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Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north in this “incredibly fun journey through fae lands and dark magic” (NPR), the start of a heartwarming and enchanting new fantasy series. “A darkly gorgeous fantasy that sparkles with snow and magic.”—Sangu Mandanna, author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, PopSugar Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world’s first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small talk at a party—or even get invited to one. And she prefers the company of her books, her dog, Shadow, and the Fair Folk to other people. So when she arrives in the hardscrabble village of Hrafnsvik, Emily has no intention of befriending the gruff townsfolk. Nor does she care to spend time with another new arrival: her dashing and insufferably handsome academic rival Wendell Bambleby, who manages to charm the townsfolk, muddle Emily’s research, and utterly confound and frustrate her. But as Emily gets closer and closer to uncovering the secrets of the Hidden Ones—the most elusive of all faeries—lurking in the shadowy forest outside the town, she also finds herself on the trail of another mystery: Who is Wendell Bambleby, and what does he really want? To find the answer, she’ll have to unlock the greatest mystery of all—her own heart. Book One of the Emily Wilde Series

Author : Pierpaolo Martino
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031304262

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WILDE NOW by Pierpaolo Martino Pdf

WILDE NOWreads Oscar Wilde through our now, through a contemporary sensibility (and approach), in which literature and popular culture interrogate and are interrogated by critical concepts and categories such as performance, celebrity, intermediality, and consumerism. This volume exceeds the shape and meaning of a critical study to turn into a drama of five different acts/moments in Wilde’s life and work: his early performances in Dublin, London and Oxford; the 1882 American tour; his successful season of the first half of the 1890s, his prison years and finally his glorious resurrection in contemporary pop culture. Most importantly WILDE NOW approaches these moments through contemporary rewritings and performances of “Oscar Wilde” in the fields of cinema, music and literature by such artists as Al Pacino, Rupert Everett, Stephen Fry, Gyles Brandreth, David Hare, David Bowie, Morrissey, Nick Cave, Neil Tennant, Gavin Friday. These artists – through their awareness of the importance of being/playing Oscar in their specific worlds and cultural contexts – will also show us that Wilde can be conceived as a subversive, critical role one might successfully perform and appropriate, now more than ever.

Author : Dr Jarlath Killeen
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409489832

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The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde by Dr Jarlath Killeen Pdf

Oscar Wilde's two collections of children's literature, The Happy Prince and Other Stories (1888) and A House of Pomegranates (1891), have often been marginalised in critical accounts as their apparently conservative didacticism appears at odds with the characterisation of Wilde as an amoral aesthete. In this, the first full-length study of Wilde's fairy tales for children, Jarlath Killeen argues that Wilde's stories are neither uniformly conservative nor subversive, but a blend of both. Killeen contends that while they should be read in relation to a literary tradition of fairy tales that emerged in nineteenth century Europe; Irish issues heavily influenced the work. These issues were powerfully shaped by the 'folk Catholicism' Wilde encountered in the west of Ireland. By resituating the fairy tales in a complex nexus of theological, political, social, and national concerns, Killeen restores the tales to their proper place in the Wilde canon.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015076981516

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The Homoeopathic World by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christopher G. White
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674984295

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Other Worlds by Christopher G. White Pdf

Christopher White points to ways that both spiritual practices and scientific speculation about multiverses and invisible dimensions are efforts to peer into the hidden elements and even existential meaning of the universe. Creatively appropriated, these ideas can restore a spiritual sense that the world is greater than anything our eyes can see.

Author : Michael S. Foldy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300071124

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The Trials of Oscar Wilde by Michael S. Foldy Pdf

Following Oscar Wilde's trials for committing acts of gross indecency with men, he lost his family, his freedom and his will to live. This book sets out to examine how Victorian society could allow, or indeed, need this to happen.

Author : Iain Ross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781107020320

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Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece by Iain Ross Pdf

Oscar Wilde's imagination was haunted by ancient Greece; this book traces its presence in his life and works.

Author : Joseph Bristow
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Carolyn Cunningham
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780359205363

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Go Git 'Em, Gizmo!: WWII Sgt. L. J. Wildes 1917-99 by Carolyn Cunningham Pdf

In tribute to my father, Lawrence James Wildes, Sr., I compiled his writings and included pictures from different phases of his life. This book mainly concerns his upbringing in Southeast Georgia, his participation on the U.S. Navy search team for Amelia Earhart and his World War II experiences as a 2nd Armored Division sergeant with U.S. Army General George Patton. Passing away in 1999, Daddy would have turned 100 in 2017.

Author : Klaus Schlichtmann
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739135204

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Japan in the World by Klaus Schlichtmann Pdf

The twentieth century is as remarkable for its world wars as it is for its efforts to outlaw war in international and constitutional law and politics. Japan in the World examines some of these efforts through the life and work of Shidehara Kijuro, who was active as diplomat and statesman between 1896 until his death in 1951. Shidehara is seen as a guiding thread running through the first five decades of the twentieth century. Through the 1920s until the beginning of the 1930s, his foreign policy shaped Japan's place within the community of nations. The positive role Japan played in international relations and the high esteem in which it was held at that time goes largely to his credit. As Prime Minister and 'man of the hour' after the Second World War, he had a hand in shaping the new beginning for post-war Japan, instituting policies that would start his country on a path to peace and prosperity. Accessing previously unpublished archival materials, Schlichtmann examines the work of this pacifist statesman, situating Shidehara within the context of twentieth century statecraft and international politics. While it was an age of devastating total wars that took a vast toll of civilian lives, the politics and diplomatic history between 1899 and 1949 also saw the light of new developments in international and constitutional law to curtail state sovereignty and reach a peaceful order of international affairs. Japan in the World is an essential resource for understanding that nation's contributions to these world-changing developments.

Author : Eve Chase
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781405919357

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The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde by Eve Chase Pdf

'An enthralling story of secrets, sisters and an unsolved mystery' Kate Morton In the middle of a heatwave, four sisters arrive at Applecote Manor to relive their memories of hazy Cotswolds summers. They find their uncle and aunt still reeling from the disappearance of their only daughter, five years before. An undercurrent of dread runs through the house. Why did Audrey vanish? Who is keeping her fate secret? As the sisters are lured into the mystery of their missing cousin, the stifling summer takes a shocking, deadly turn. One which will leave blood on their hands, and put another girl in danger decades later . . . 'Evocative and filled with intrigue' Clare Mackintosh 'One of the most enthralling novelists of the moment' Lisa Jewell 'Exquisite and evocative - the pace and suspense are handled expertly' Sarah Vaughan

Author : Maria do Rosário Monteiro,Mário S. Ming Kong,Maria João Pereira Neto
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 749 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351966825

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Utopia(s) - Worlds and Frontiers of the Imaginary by Maria do Rosário Monteiro,Mário S. Ming Kong,Maria João Pereira Neto Pdf

The idea of Utopia springs from a natural desire of transformation, of evolution pertaining to humankind and, therefore, one can find expressions of “utopian” desire in every civilization. Having to do explicitly with human condition, Utopia accompanies closely cultural evolution, almost as a symbiotic organism. Maintaining its roots deeply attached to ancient myths, utopian expression followed, and sometimes preceded cultural transformation. Through the next almost five hundred pages (virtually one for each year since Utopia was published) researchers in the fields of Architecture and Urbanism, Arts and Humanities present the results of their studies within the different areas of expertise under the umbrella of Utopia. Past, present, and future come together in one book. They do not offer their readers any golden key. Many questions will remain unanswered, as they should. The texts presented in Proportion Harmonies and Identities - UTOPIA(S) WORLDS AND FRONTIERS OF THE IMAGINARY were compiled with the intent to establish a platform for the presentation, interaction and dissemination of researches. It aims also to foster the awareness and discussion on the topics of Harmony and Proportion with a focus on different utopian visions and readings relevant to the arts, sciences and humanities and their importance and benefits for the community at large.