Oscar Wilde And Modern Culture
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Oscar Wilde And Modern Culture
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Author : Joseph Bristow
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2009-01-12
Oscar Wilde And Modern Culture written by Joseph Bristow and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend explores the meteoric rise, sudden fall, and legendary resurgence of an immensely influential writer’s reputation from his hectic 1881 American lecture tour to recent Hollywood adaptations of his dramas. Always renowned—if not notorious—for his fashionable persona, Wilde courted celebrity at an early age. Later, he came to prominence as one of the most talented essayists and fiction writers of his time. 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. As this volume shows, Wilde 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 Salome 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. This volume reveals why, more than a hundred years after his demise, Wilde’s value in the academic world, the auction house, and the entertainment industry stands higher than that of any modern writer.
Oscar Wilde And The Cultures Of Childhood
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Author : Joseph Bristow
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-11-09
Oscar Wilde And The Cultures Of Childhood written by Joseph Bristow and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
The Modern Art Of Influence And The Spectacle Of Oscar Wilde
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Author : S. Salamensky
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-01-02
The Modern Art Of Influence And The Spectacle Of Oscar Wilde written by S. Salamensky and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-02 with Performing Arts categories.
Salamensky investigates Oscar Wilde, his contemporaries, and the public frenzy over his work and life as illustrating the crucial importance of performance in the construction of the 'modern' and our own, postmodern, lives.
The Resurrection Of Oscar Wilde
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Author : Julia Wood
language : en
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Release Date : 2007
The Resurrection Of Oscar Wilde written by Julia Wood and has been published by Lutterworth Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary Criticism categories.
This absorbing book examines five events that have taken place to commemorate the 100-year-anniversaries of Oscar Wildes conviction for gross indecency in London, and his death in Paris. Through these events, the author explores the ways in which Wildes life and legacy continue to be influential.
Wilde Now
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Author : Pierpaolo Martino
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-05-08
Wilde Now written by Pierpaolo Martino and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-08 with Performing Arts categories.
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.
Modernist Aesthetics And Consumer Culture In The Writings Of Oscar Wilde
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Author : Paul Fortunato
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-13
Modernist Aesthetics And Consumer Culture In The Writings Of Oscar Wilde written by Paul Fortunato and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Oscar Wilde was a consumer modernist. His modernist aesthetics drove him into the heart of the mass culture industries of 1890s London, particularly the journalism and popular theatre industries. Wilde was extremely active in these industries: as a journalist at the Pall Mall Gazette; as magazine editor of the Women’s World; as commentator on dress and design through both of these; and finally as a fabulously popular playwright. Because of his desire to impact a mass audience, the primary elements of Wilde’s consumer aesthetic were superficial ornament and ephemeral public image – both of which he linked to the theatrical. This concern with the surface and with the ephemeral was, ironically, a foundational element of what became twentieth-century modernism – thus we can call Wilde’s aesthetic a consumer modernism, a root and branch of modernism that was largely erased.
Wilde Style
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Author : Neil Sammells
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-07-22
Wilde Style written by Neil Sammells and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
This new study of the major prose and plays of Oscar Wilde argues that his dominant aesthetic category is not art but style. It is this major emphasis on style and attitude which helps mark Wilde so graphically as our contemporary. Beginning with a survey of current Wilde criticism, the book demonstrates the way his own critical essays anticipate much contemporary cultural theory and inform his own practice as a writer.
Making Oscar Wilde
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Author : Michèle Mendelssohn
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-07-05
Making Oscar Wilde written by Michèle Mendelssohn and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
Witty, inspiring, and charismatic, Oscar Wilde is one of the Greats of English literature. Today, his plays and stories are beloved around the world. But it was not always so. His afterlife has given him the legitimacy that life denied him. Making Oscar Wilde reveals the untold story of young Oscar's career in Victorian England and post-Civil War America. Set on two continents, this book tracks a larger-than-life hero on an unforgettable adventure to make his name and gain international acclaim. 'Success is a science,' Wilde believed, 'if you have the conditions, you get the result.' Combining new evidence and gripping cultural history, Michèle Mendelssohn dramatizes Wilde's rise, fall, and resurrection as part of a spectacular transatlantic pageant. With superb style and an instinct for story-telling, she brings to life the charming young Irishman who set out to captivate the United States and Britain with his words and ended up conquering the world. Following the twists and turns of Wilde's journey, Mendelssohn vividly depicts sensation-hungry Victorian journalism and popular entertainment alongside racial controversies, sex scandals, and the growth of Irish nationalism. This ground-breaking revisionist history shows how Wilde's tumultuous early life embodies the story of the Victorian era as it tottered towards modernity. Riveting and original, Making Oscar Wilde is a masterful account of a life like no other.
The Reception Of Oscar Wilde In Europe
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Author : Stefano Evangelista
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2010-05-06
The Reception Of Oscar Wilde In Europe written by Stefano Evangelista and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Oscar Wilde
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Author : John Stokes
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 1978
Oscar Wilde written by John Stokes and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Fiction categories.
Oscar Wilde was a major influence on the culture of his time, and remains relevant today, as a model of wit and style, a sexual icon, and a moral example. In a sequence of detailed and imaginative chapters on Wilde and his times, John Stokes shows how in the 1880s and 1890s Wilde played a vital part in the development of modern culture, inspiring others to carry his ideas on into the twentieth century. Stokes offers studies of Wilde's place in the Romantic tradition, and of his relationships with such legendary figures of the fin de siècle as Aubrey Beardsley, Alfred Jarry and Arthur Symons. And always, as part of the process of historical enquiry, Stokes considers those who came after: humanitarian disciples who kept Wilde's memory sacred, performers in his plays, actors who impersonated the man himself. Oscar Wilde: Myths, Miracles and Imitations explains why Wilde, a 'material ghost', haunts us still.