The Importance Of Being A Reader A Revision Of Oscar Wilde S Works
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The Importance Of Being A Reader A Revision Of Oscar Wilde S Works
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Author : Christina Pascual Aransáez
language : en
Publisher: Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag)
Release Date : 2014-11
The Importance Of Being A Reader A Revision Of Oscar Wilde S Works written by Christina Pascual Aransáez and has been published by Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book explores Wilde's works from the hypothesis that they call upon the active participation of the reader in the production of meaning. It has a twofold objective: first, it shows that Wilde's emphasis on the creative role of the audience in his critical writings makes him conceive the reader as a co-creator in the construction of meaning. Second, it analyses the strategies which Wilde employs to impel the reader to collaborate in the creation of meaning of his literary works and casts light upon the social criticism derived from these. The examination of Wilde’s writings reveals how he gradually combined more sophisticated techniques that encouraged the reader's dynamic role with the progressive exploitation of self-advertising strategies for professional purposes. These allowed the ‘commercial’ Oscar to make his works successful among the Victorian public without betraying the ‘literary’ Wilde’s aesthetic principles. The present study re-evaluates Wilde as a critic and as a writer. It demonstrates that, while Wilde the ‘myth’ was ahead of his time in many ways, Wilde the ‘ARTIST’ anticipated in his aesthetic theory various themes which occupy contemporary literary theoreticians. Thus, it may contribute to give him the status he rightly deserves in the history of literature.
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.
Victorian Literature And Finance
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Author : Francis O'Gorman
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2007-03-22
Victorian Literature And Finance written by Francis O'Gorman and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
Victorian Britain offered to the globe an economic structure of unique complexity. The trading nation, at the heart of a great empire, developed the practices of advanced capitalism - currency, banking, investment, money markets, business practices and theory, intellectual property legislation - from which the financial systems of the contemporary world emerged. Cultural forms in Victorian Britain transacted with high capitalism in a variety of ways but literary critics interested in economics have traditionally been preoccupied either with writers' hostility to industrial capitalism in terms of its shaping of class, or with the development of consumerism. Victorian Literature and Finance is the first extended study to take seriously the relationships between literary forms and those more complex discourses of Victorian high finance. These essays move beyond the examination of literature that was merely impatient with the perceived consequences of capitalism to analyse creative relationships between culture and economic structures. Considering such topics as the nature of currency, women and the culture of investment, the profits of a modern media age, the dramatization of risk on the Victorian stage, the practice of realism in relation to business theory, the culture of speculation at the end of the century, and arguments about the uncomfortable relationship between literary and financial capital, Victorian Literature and Finance sets new terms for understanding and theorizing the relationship between high finance and literary writing in the nineteenth century.
The Complete Works Of Oscar Wilde Poems And Poems In Prose
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Author : Oscar Wilde
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
The Complete Works Of Oscar Wilde Poems And Poems In Prose written by Oscar Wilde and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Literary Collections categories.
This volume of Poems and Poems in Prose inaugurates the Oxford English Texts Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. It provides texts of Wilde's one-hundred and nineteen poems and poems in prose, including twenty-one never published in his lifetime, together with the publishing history of each poem, and a detailed commentary on allusions and echoes, imagery, and points of biographical interest.
An Ideal Husband
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Author : Oscar Wilde
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-12-12
An Ideal Husband written by Oscar Wilde and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-12 with Drama categories.
One of the nineteenth century's most successful and most frequently revived plays, An Ideal Husband has divided critics more than any other of Wilde's plays. Treating political intrigue, financial fraud, blackmail, scandal and spin, and the role of women in public life, it is a play which engaged with issues of vital importance to its late-Victorian audience, which continue to resonate today. Sos Eltis, a specialist in Victorian drama and its relation to women's issues, provides a stimulating new perspective on An Ideal Husband, through an introduction that looks at its relation with contemporary social purity campaigns, women's rights, and political scandals. The introduction also gives a substantial performance history, with particular reference to the play's film versions and the influential Peter Hall theatre production.
Oscar Wilde
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Author : Norbert Kohl
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-03-03
Oscar Wilde written by Norbert Kohl and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Professor Kohl's aim is to gain fresh insight into his literary and critical œuvre of Oscar Wilde. He analyses each of his works on the basis of a textually oriented interpretation, taking equal account of the biographical and intellectual contexts through the use of contradictions that Wilde show as individualism and convention.
Oscar Wilde Wilfred Owen And Male Desire
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Author : James Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-09-08
Oscar Wilde Wilfred Owen And Male Desire written by James Campbell and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book reads Oscar Wilde as a queer theorist and Wilfred Owen as his symbolic son. It centers on the concept of 'male procreation', or the generation of new ideas through an erotic but non-physical connection between two men, and it sees Owen as both a product and a continuation of this Wildean tradition.
Literary Theories
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Author : Julian Wolfreys
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1999-09
Literary Theories written by Julian Wolfreys and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-09 with Literary Collections categories.
The first reader and introductory guide to literary theory—includes close readings and a full glossary and bibliography Literary Theories is the first reader and introductory guide in one volume. Divided into 12 sections covering structuralism, feminism, marxism, reader-response theory, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, post-structuralism, postmodernism, new historicism, postcolonialism, gay studies and queer theory, and cultural studies, Literary Theories introduces the reader to the most challenging and engaging aspects of critical studies in the humanities today. Classic essays representing the different theoretical positions and offering striking examples of close readings of literature are preceded by new introductions which present the theory in question and discuss its main currents. With a full glossary and detailed bibliography, Literary Theories is the perfect introductory guide and reader in one volume. Included are essays by Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Homi K. Bhabha, Judith Butler, Terry Castle, Iain Chambers, Rey Chow, Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Jonathan Dollimore, Terry Eagleton, Catherine Gallagher, Stephen Heath, Wolfgang Iser, Fredric Jameson, Hans Robert Jauss, Claire Kahane, Gail Ching Liang Low, Mary Lydon, Jean-François Lyotard, James M. Mellard, D.A. Miller, J. Hillis Miller, Louis Adrian Montrose, Michael Riffaterre, Avital Ronell, Nicholas Royle, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Alan Sinfield, and Raymond Williams.
The Cambridge Companion To George Bernard Shaw
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Author : Christopher Innes
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-09-24
The Cambridge Companion To George Bernard Shaw written by Christopher Innes and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-09-24 with Drama categories.
This volume covers all aspects of Shaw's drama, focusing both on the political and theatrical context, while the illustrations showcase productions from the Shaw Festival in Canada.
Revising Wilde
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Author : Sos Eltis
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 1996
Revising Wilde written by Sos Eltis and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Drama categories.
A radical re-examination of Oscar Wilde's plays, Revising Wilde challenges long-established views of the writer as a dilettante and dandy, revealing him instead as a serious philosopher and social critic who used his plays to subvert the traditional values of Victorian literature and society. By tracing Wilde's painstaking revisions and redraftings of his plays, Sos Eltis uncovers themes subsequently concealed in successive versions which demonstrate that Wilde was in fact an anarchist, a socialist, and a feminist. Wilde borrowed plots and incidents from numerous contemporary French and English plays, but he then subtly rewrote his plagiarized material in order to mock the very conventions he imitated. By analysing previously unconsidered manuscript drafts, and comparing the finished plays with their sources, Eltis displays a surprising depth and complexity to Wilde's work. The little-known early play, Vera; or, The Nihilists is revealed as a politically radical drama, the society plays are shown to challenge Victorian sexual and social mores, and The Importance of Being Earnest is interpreted as an anarchic farce, which reflects the Utopian vision of Wilde's political essay, 'The Soul of Man under Socialism'. Taking into account the most recent scholarship and criticism, this accessible study will be of interest to Wilde specialists and enthusiasts alike.