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Refiguring Oscar Wilde's Salome
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ISBN: 128336638X 9786613366382 9401207208 9789401207201 9789042034327 9042034327 Year: 2011 Publisher: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi,

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While Oscar Wilde’s delightfully-witty comedies of manners receive the most fanfare from the general public and much of academia, Wilde’s most “serious” play— Salome —rightfully deserves an equal amount of attention. Written by emerging scholars, established scholars, and notable Wilde scholars at the top of the field, the far-ranging essays in this book—the first collection solely on Wilde’s Salome —provide new readings of the play, allowing us to better assess how and why Salome either fits or does not fit into Wilde’s oeuvre. Framed in a new light in this collection, this fuller understanding of Salome should potentially change the way we read both Salome and Wilde’s entire oeuvre.

The effective protagonist in the nineteenth-century British novel : Scott, Bronte, Eliot, Wilde
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ISBN: 075464135X 1317034546 1317034538 9786611097561 128109756X 0754681939 1315615932 9780754681939 9781281097569 9780754641353 9781317034544 9781317034537 6611097562 Year: 2004 Publisher: Aldershot : Ashgate,

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The Effective Protagonist in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel is an experiment in post-Jungian literary criticism and methodology. Its primary aim is to challenge current views about the correlation between narrative structure, gender, and the governing psychological dilemma in four nineteenth-century British novels. The overarching argument is that the opening situation in a novel represents an implicit challenge facing not the obvious hero/heroine but the individual that Terence Dawson defines as the ""effective protagonist."" To illustrate his claim, Dawson pairs two sets of novels with

Wilde writings : contextual conditions
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ISBN: 0802035329 9786612014437 1282014439 1442683503 9781442683501 9781282014435 9780802035325 6612014431 1487525451 Year: 2003 Volume: 1 Publisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : Published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library,

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"Wilde Writings brings together research by established and emerging scholars, some of whom draw on unpublished archival material, and all of whom have something new and enlightening to say about Wilde. The collection provides fresh insights into critical debates about Wilde and effeminacy, masochism, and Christian theology, and also draws attention to significant problems in the textual editing of his writings, his debt to the 'aesthetic' fiction of the novelist Ouida, and the popularity of his drama in twentieth-century China."--Jacket.


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Wilde discoveries : traditions, histories, archives
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ISBN: 1442665696 9781442665699 1442646446 9781442646445 144266570X Year: 2013 Publisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press,

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The most significant resource for any researcher wishing to understand the finer details of Oscar Wilde's remarkable career, the "Oscar Wilde and His Circle" archive at the University of California, Los Angeles houses the world's largest collection of materials relating to the life and work of the gifted Irish writer. Wilde Discoveries brings together thirteen studies based on research done in this archive that span the course of Wilde's work and shed light on previously neglected aspects of Wilde's lively and varied professional and personal life. This volume offers fresh approaches to well-known works such as 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' while paying serious attention to his lesser known writings and activities, including his earliest attempts at emulating the English Romantics, his editing of 'Woman's World', and his fascination with anarchism. A detailed introduction by the volume editor ties the essays together and illustrates the distinctive evolution of research on this great writer's extraordinary career


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Oscar Wilde's Chatterton : Literary History, Romanticism, and the Art of Forgery
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ISBN: 0300213263 9780300213263 1336030879 9781336030879 0300208308 9780300208306 0300208308 9780300208306 Year: 2015 Publisher: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press,

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In Oscar Wilde's Chatterton, Joseph Bristow and Rebecca N. Mitchell explore Wilde's fascination with the eighteenth-century forger Thomas Chatterton, who tragically took his life at the age of seventeen. This innovative study combines a scholarly monograph with a textual edition of the extensive notes that Wilde took on the brilliant forger who inspired not only Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Keats but also Victorian artists and authors. Bristow and Mitchell argue that Wilde's substantial "Chatterton" notebook, which previous scholars have deemed a work of plagiarism, is central to his development as a gifted writer of criticism, drama, fiction, and poetry. This volume, which covers the whole span of Wilde's career, reveals that his research on Chatterton informs his deepest engagements with Romanticism, plagiarism, and forgery, especially in later works such as "The Portrait of Mr. W. H.," The Picture of Dorian Gray, and The Importance of Being Earnest. Grounded in painstaking archival research that draws on previously undiscovered sources, Oscar Wilde's Chatterton explains why, in Wilde's personal canon of great writers (which included such figures as Charles Baudelaire, Gustave Flaubert, Théophile Gautier, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti), Chatterton stood as an equal in this most distinguished company.


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Reconsidering the emergence of the gay novel in English and German
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ISBN: 9781612494173 161249417X 9781612494210 1612494218 9781557537508 155753750X Year: 2016 Publisher: West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press,

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In Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German, James P. Wilper examines a key moment in the development of the modern gay novel by analyzing four novels by German, British, and American writers. Wilper studies how the texts are influenced by and respond and react to four schools of thought regarding male homosexuality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first is legal codes criminalizing sex acts between men and the religious doctrine that informs them. The second is the ancient Greek erotic philosophy, in which a revival of interest took place in the late nineteenth century. The third is sexual science (or sexology), which offered various medical and psychological explanations for same-sex desire and was employed variously to defend, as well as to attempt to cure, this "perversion." And fourth, in the wake of the scandal caused by his trials and conviction for "gross indecency," Oscar Wilde became associated with a homosexual stereotype based on "unmanly" behavior. Wilper analyzes the four novels: Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, E.M. Forster's Maurice, Edward Prime-Stevenson's Imre: A Memorandum, and John Henry Mackay's The Hustler, in relation to these schools of thought, and focuses on the exchange and cross-cultural influence between linguistic and cultural contexts on the subject of love and desire between men.


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The decadent image : the poetry of Wilde, Symons and Dowson
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ISBN: 9780748690923 0748690921 9780748690930 074869093X 9780748690947 0748690948 1474412378 Year: 2015 Volume: *1 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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This book examines systematically, for the first time, poems by three protagonists of the 1890s: Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons and Ernest Dowson. It sees their poems as sites where the self sensually collides with or is immersed in their artifice. This study examines Wilde's neglected early poetry and its role in triggering this shift. It shows how the idea of an erotic encounter with artifice reaches its apex in Symons's poetry, and how in Dowson it ripens into vexing non-collisions.


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Oscar Wilde and ancient Greece
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ISBN: 9781107020320 9781107479944 9781139097161 9781139569125 1139569120 1139570935 9781139570930 1139097164 1283746220 9781283746229 9781139572682 1139572687 1107020328 113988879X 1139579509 1139573470 1139570021 1107479940 Year: 2013 Volume: 82 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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From his boyhood Oscar Wilde was haunted by the literature and culture of ancient Greece, but until now no full-length study has considered in detail the texts, institutions and landscapes through which he imagined Greece. The archaeology of Celtic Ireland, explored by the young Wilde on excavations with his father, informed both his encounter with the archaeology of Greece and his conviction that Celt and Greek shared a hereditary aesthetic sensibility, while major works such as The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest maintain a dynamic, creative relationship with originary texts such as Aristotle's Ethics, Plato's dialogues and the then lost comedies of Menander. Drawing on unpublished archival material, Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece offers a new portrait of a writer whose work embodies both the late-nineteenth-century conflict between literary and material antiquity and his own contradictory impulses towards Hellenist form and the formlessness of desire.

Henry James, Oscar Wilde and aesthetic culture
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ISBN: 0748651632 1281252069 9786611252069 074863021X 9780748630219 9781281252067 9780748651634 0748697543 9780748697540 6611252061 074862385X 9780748623853 6611252061 0748697535 9780748697533 Year: 2007 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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Places a discussion of aestheticism in a transatlantic context centred on two canonical Anglo-American authors: Henry James and Oscar Wilde.

States of desire : Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish experiment
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ISBN: 0195115929 0195353889 1280529601 1429404485 9781429404488 9781280529603 9786610529605 6610529604 9780195115925 9780195353884 0197592236 Year: 2023 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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This study shows how the writings of Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce are politically subversive in the most local and dangerous sense of the term: they aim to take apart the assumptions and verbal practices that make dominance possible.

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Caractéristiques nationales irlandaises en littérature --- Ierland in de literatuur --- Iers volkskarakter in de literatuur --- Ireland in literature --- Irish national characteristics in literature --- Irlande dans la littérature --- National characteristics [Irish ] in literature --- Volkskarakter [Iers ] in de literatuur --- Yeats, William B. --- Joyce, James --- Caractéristiques nationales irlandaises dans la littérature --- Wilde, Oscar, --- Joyce, James, --- Caractéristiques nationales irlandaises dans la littérature --- Wilde, Oscar --- English literature --- National characteristics, Irish, in literature. --- Littérature anglaise --- History and criticism. --- Irish authors --- Histoire et critique --- Auteurs irlandais --- Yeats, W. B. --- Authors [Irish ] --- History and criticism --- 19th century --- 20th century --- English literature - Irish authors - History and criticism. --- Ireland - In literature. --- Yeats, William Butler --- Joyce, James Augustine Aloysius --- Dzhoĭs, Dzheĭms Avgustin Aloiziĭ --- Džoiss, Džeimss --- Gʻois, Gʻaims --- Joyce, Giacomo --- Jūyis, Jīms --- Tzoys, Tzaiēms --- Tzoys, Tzeēms --- Джойс, Джеймс --- Джойс, Джеймс Августин Алоїсуїс --- Zhoĭs, Zheĭms --- ג׳ויס, ג׳ײמס, --- ג׳ויס, ג׳יימס, --- ジョイス --- ジェームスジョイス, --- Melmoth, Sebastian, --- Uaĭlʹd, Oskar, --- C. 3. 3, --- C. Three Three, --- Ṿild, Osḳar, --- Wilde, Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills, --- Ṿaild, Osḳar, --- Vaildas, Oskaras, --- Author of Lady Windermere's fan, --- Lady Windermere's fan, Author of, --- Vailds, Oskars, --- Ouailnt, Oskar, --- Uaylt, Ōskʻar, --- Уайльд, Оскар, --- Уальд, Оскар, --- וויילד, אוסקר, --- וויילד, אסקאר --- וויילד, אסקאר, --- ווילד, אסקאר --- ויילד, אוסקר --- ויילד, אוסקר, --- וילד, אוסקר --- וילד, אוסקר, --- וילד, אסקר, --- װײלד, אסקאר --- װײלד, אסקאר, --- وايلد، أوسكار --- وايلد، اسكار --- オスカー・ワイルド --- D. E. D. I., --- Daemon Est Deus Inversus, --- Ganconagh, --- I., D. E. D., --- Йейтс, У. Б. --- Ĭeĭts, U. B. --- Йейтс, Уильям Батлер, --- Ĭeĭts, Uilʹi︠a︡m Batler, --- Weilian Batele Yezhi, --- Yeṭs, Ṿilyam Baṭler, --- יטס, יטלאם בטלר --- ייטס, ויליאם בטלר, --- 威廉,巴特勒,叶芝, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Ireland --- In literature.

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