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Author | : Kathleen Riley |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0198789262 |
Download Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Celebrated now and during his lifetime as a wit and aesthete, Oscar Wilde was also a talented classicist whose writings evince an enduring fascination with Graeco-Roman antiquity. This volume explores the impact of the classical world on his life and work, offering new perspectives on canonical texts and close analyses of unpublished material."--
Author | : Iain Ross |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1107020328 |
Download Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Oscar Wilde's imagination was haunted by ancient Greece; this book traces its presence in his life and works.
Author | : Leanne Grech |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2019-04-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3030143740 |
Download Oscar Wilde's Aesthetic Education Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book focuses on the role that the Oxford classical curriculum has had in shaping Oscar Wilde’s aestheticism. It positions Wilde as a classically trained intellectual and outlines the path he took to gain recognition as a writer and promoter of the aesthetic movement. This narrative is conveyed through a broad range of literary sources, including Wilde’s travel poetry, American lectures, and canonical works like ‘The Critic as Artist’, The Soul of Man, The Picture of Dorian Gray and De Profundis. This study proposes that Wilde approached aestheticism as a personalised, self-directed learning experience – a mode of self-culture – which could be used to maintain an intellectual life outside of the university. It also explores Wilde’s thoughts on education and considers the significance of male friendship at Oxford, and in Wilde’s life and literature.
Author | : Joseph Bristow |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2017-11-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3319604112 |
Download Oscar Wilde and the Cultures of Childhood Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Gideon Nisbet |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199662495 |
Download Greek Epigram in Reception Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Tracing the evolution and reception history of a collection of ancient Greek epigrams from the early nineteenth to twentieth century, the volume analyses the rhetoric which writers and translators brought to the text, highlighting the after effects of this cultural war on the interpretations of Ancient Greece in British print culture.
Author | : Jonas Grethlein |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2017-11-02 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 110719265X |
Download Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book investigates the nature of aesthetic experience with the help of ancient material, exploring our responses to both narratives and images.
Author | : Dominic Janes |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1998-02-19 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780521594035 |
Download God and Gold in Late Antiquity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From the conversion of the emperor Constantine in the early fourth century, vast sums of money were spent on the building and sumptuous decoration of churches. The resulting works of art contain many of the greatest monuments of late antique and early medieval society. But how did such expenditure fit with Christ's message of poverty and simplicity? In attempting to answer that question, this 1998 study employs theories on the use of metaphor to show how physical beauty could stand for spiritual excellence. As well as explaining the evolving attitudes to sanctity, decorum and display in Roman and medieval society, detailed analysis is made of case studies of Latin biblical exegesis and gold-ground mosaics so as to counterpoint the contemporary use of gold as a Christian image in art and text.
Author | : Laura Eastlake |
Publisher | : Classical Presences |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2019-01-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0198833032 |
Download Masculinity and Ancient Rome in the Victorian Cultural Imagination Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Masculinity and Ancient Rome in the Victorian Cultural Imagination examines Victorian receptions of ancient Rome, with a specific focus on how those receptions were deployed to create useable models of masculinity. Romans in Victorian literature are at once pagan persecutors, pious statesmen, pleasure-seeking decadents, and heroes of empire, and these manifold and often contradictory representations are used as vehicles equally to capture the martial virtue of Wellington and to condemn the deviance and degeneracy of Oscar Wilde. In the works of Thomas Macaulay, Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope, H. Rider Haggard, and Rudyard Kipling, among others, Rome emerges as a contested space with an array of possible scripts and signifiers which can be used to frame masculine ideals, or to vilify perceived deviance from those ideals, though with a value and significance often very different to ancient Greek models. Sitting at the intersection of reception studies, gender studies, and interdisciplinary literary and cultural studies across discourses ranging from education and politics, this volume offers the first comprehensive examination of the importance of ancient Rome as a cultural touchstone for nineteenth-century manliness and Victorian codifications of masculinity.
Author | : Florina Tufescu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Authorship |
ISBN | : 9780716529057 |
Download Oscar Wilde's Plagiarism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This title offers a compact history of the meanings and uses of plagiarism from antiquity to the present. It is an interpretation of Oscar Wilde's plagiarism and of its impact on Joyce, Borges, Gide, and many others.
Author | : Matthew Sturgis |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 865 |
Release | : 2021-10-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0525656367 |
Download Oscar Wilde Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The fullest, most textural, most accurate—most human—account of Oscar Wilde's unique and dazzling life—based on extensive new research and newly discovered materials, from Wilde's personal letters and transcripts of his first trial to newly uncovered papers of his early romantic (and dangerous) escapades and the two-year prison term that shattered his soul and his life. "Simply the best modern biography of Wilde." —Evening Standard Drawing on material that has come to light in the past thirty years, including newly discovered letters, documents, first draft notebooks, and the full transcript of the libel trial, Matthew Sturgis meticulously portrays the key events and influences that shaped Oscar Wilde's life, returning the man "to his times, and to the facts," giving us Wilde's own experience as he experienced it. Here, fully and richly portrayed, is Wilde's Irish childhood; a dreamy, aloof boy; a stellar classicist at boarding school; a born entertainer with a talent for comedy and a need for an audience; his years at Oxford, a brilliant undergraduate punctuated by his reckless disregard for authority . . . his arrival in London, in 1878, "already noticeable everywhere" . . . his ten-year marriage to Constance Lloyd, the father of two boys; Constance unwittingly welcoming young men into the household who became Oscar's lovers, and dying in exile at the age of thirty-nine . . . Wilde's development as a playwright. . . becoming the high priest of the aesthetic movement; his successes . . . his celebrity. . . and in later years, his irresistible pull toward another—double—life, in flagrant defiance and disregard of England's strict sodomy laws ("the blackmailer's charter"); the tragic story of his fall that sent him to prison for two years at hard labor, destroying his life and shattering his soul.