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Author | : Melissa Knox |
Publisher | : Camden House |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781571130426 |
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An examination of the most significant literary criticism on Wilde at the turn of the century. In 1891, Oscar Wilde defined 'the highest criticism' as 'the record of one's own soul, and insisted that only by 'intensifying his own personality' could the critic interpret the personality and work of others. This book exploreswhat Wilde meant by that statement, arguing that it provides the best standard for judging literary criticism about Wilde a century after his death. Melissa Knox examines a range of Wilde criticism in English -- including the work of Lawrence Danson, Michael Patrick Gillespie, Ed Cohen, and Julia Prewitt Brown. Applying Wilde's standards to his critics, Knox discovers that the best of them take to heart Wilde's idea of the aim of criticism -- 'to see theobject as in itself it really is not.' By this, Wilde appreciates Walter Pater's profound observation that everyone sees through a 'thick wall of personality' and that, therefore, objectivity as conceived by Matthew Arnold does not exist. Admiring Pater, Wilde became a prophet for Freud, his exact contemporary. Their intellectual sympathies, made obvious in Knox's exegesis, help to make the case for Wilde as a modern, not a Victorian. Melissa Knox's book Oscar Wilde: A Long and Lovely Suicide was published in 1994. She teaches at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
Author | : Frances Grebanier |
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Release | : 1979-06-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780404183738 |
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Author | : Joseph Pearce |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Vilified by fellow Victorians for his sexuality and his dandyism, in the 1990s, Oscar Wilde is hailed as a progressive sexual liberator. But this is not how Wilde saw himself. His actions and pretences did not bring him happiness and fulfilment: his art did.
Author | : Robert Harborough Sherard |
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Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1905 |
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Author | : Mrs. Vinciguerra Grebanier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : *Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1800 |
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Author | : Oscar Wilde |
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Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1909 |
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Author | : Oscar Wilde |
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Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1910 |
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Author | : John Stokes |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1996-03-14 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521475372 |
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Stokes offers studies of Wilde's place in the Romantic tradition, and of his relationships with such legendary figures of the fin de siecle as Aubrey Beardsley, Alfred Jarry, and Arthur Symons. And always, as part of the process of historical inquiry, Stokes considers those who came after: humanitarian disciples who kept Wilde's memory sacred, performers in his plays, actors who impersonated the man himself.
Author | : Oscar Wilde |
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Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1923 |
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Author | : Martin Birnbaum |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 2017-10-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780265252000 |
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Excerpt from Oscar Wilde: Fragments and Memories Arly in the nineties Clyde Fitch, an ambitious young American, had a play produced in London.\ After the final curtain some rowdies in the pit coaxed the inexperienced playwright to appear before the footlights and proceeded to boo and hiss him off as soon as he stepped in view. But the young man was not crushed. They will have to applaud me yet, he exclaimed, and his subsequent meteoric career proved that he had fine talents. At that time, however, there were few in London who would listen to his verses, stories, and plays, and fewer still tobuy them. In a notebook of the period we find him paraphrasing an ancient pessimistic troubadour, My fate is like the nightingale's, That singeth all night long, While still the woodlands mournfully But echo back his song. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.