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Book Intentions

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  • Author : Oscar Wilde
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1905
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Intentions written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of four essays by Oscar Wilde.

Book The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde written by Peter Raby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-10-16 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde offers an essential introduction to one of the theatre's most important and enigmatic writers. Although a general overview, the volume also offers some of the latest thinking on the dramatist and his impact on the twentieth century. Part One places Wilde's work within the cultural and historical context of his time and includes an opening essay by Wilde's grandson, Merlin Holland. Further chapters also examine Wilde and the Victorians and his image as a Dandy. Part Two looks at Wilde's essential work as playwright and general writer, including his poetry, critiques, and fiction, and provides detailed analysis of such key works as Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest among others. The third group of essays examines the themes and factors which shaped Wilde's work and includes Wilde and his view of the Victorian woman, Wilde's sexual identities, and interpreting Wilde on stage. This 1997 volume also contains a detailed chronology of Wilde's work, a guide to further reading, and illustrations from important productions.

Book Intentions

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  • Author : Oscar Wilde
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2017-10-13
  • ISBN : 9780266272793
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book Intentions written by Oscar Wilde and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Intentions: The Decay of Lying Pen Pencil and Poison the Critic as Artist the Truth of Masks Vivian. I intend to call it 'the Decay of Lying: A Protest.' cyril.' Lying! I should have thought that our politicians kept up that habit. 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.

Book The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

Download or read book The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde written by Josephine M. Guy and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-09-06 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume IV of the Oxford English Texts Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the first variorum edition of Wilde's major critical writing; it includes the critical essays which were re-published in book-form in his life-time - that is, those anthologised in Intentions and The Soul of Man - as well as his graduate essay usually known by the title The Rise of Historical Criticism, but which this volume titles Historical Criticism. The Introduction gives a detailed account of the composition of each of the essays: it gives a new explanation for the relationship between the 'The Decay of Lying' and 'Pen, Pencil, and Poison' (arguing that they are best understood as companion pieces); it provides the first concrete demonstration that Wilde did, on occasions, knowingly 'copy' his own work; and it reveals that substantial cuts were made to some of Wilde's essays (without his full consent) by the periodical editors with whom he worked. The edition also provides, for the first time, a full collation of the textual variants between the published versions of Wilde's essays (that is, both book and periodical), and all extant manuscripts; in addition it establishes a new, authoritative text for Historical Criticism, based on an examination of the original manuscript, which differs significantly from that printed by Robert Ross in his 1908 Collected Edition (and subsequently reprinted in the Collins Complete Works). The annotation to the edition reveals the full extent of Wilde's 'borrowings' both from his own work, and from other writers; it also reveals that much of Historical Criticism is in fact paraphrasing or translating well-known classical texts, and that the some of denseness of the argument is due to ellipses in Wilde's text that were disguised by earlier editors.

Book Intentions

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  • Author : Oscar Wilde
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9780243662517
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Intentions written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Intentions  The decay of lying  Pen  pencil  and poison  The critic as artist

Download or read book Intentions The decay of lying Pen pencil and poison The critic as artist written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde

Download or read book The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde written by Oscar Wilde and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 1000 ripostes, paradoxes, and epigrams on sin, society, genius, wealth, men, women, religion, America, education, and smoking: "Work is the curse of the drinking classes," "I can resist everything except temptation," etcetera. Also excerpts from his trial testimony, where the tragedy implicit in Wilde's humor is nowhere more vivid.

Book The Artist as Divine Symbol

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  • Author : Adam Edward Carnehl
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2023-10-09
  • ISBN : 1666763071
  • Pages : 151 pages

Download or read book The Artist as Divine Symbol written by Adam Edward Carnehl and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In critical yet appreciative dialogue with four different art critics who demonstrated theological sensitivities, Adam Edward Carnehl traces an ongoing religious conversation that ran through nineteenth-century aesthetics. In Carnehl's estimation, this critical conversation between the John Ruskin, Walter Pater, and Oscar Wilde, culminated in the brilliant approach of G. K. Chesterton, who began his journalistic career with a series of insightful works of art criticism. By conducting a close reading of these largely neglected works, Carnehl demonstrates that Chesterton developed a theological aesthetic that focuses us on the revelation of God's image in every human being. In Chesterton's eyes, only those made in God's image can produce images themselves, and only those who receive a revelation of truth are able to reveal truths for others. Art is therefore a rich and symbolic unveiling of the truth of humanity which finds its origin and purpose in God the Divine Artist.

Book The Critic

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1905
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 612 pages

Download or read book The Critic written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Critic

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  • Author : Jeannette Leonard Gilder
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1905
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 606 pages

Download or read book The Critic written by Jeannette Leonard Gilder and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Extraordinary Aesthetes

Download or read book Extraordinary Aesthetes written by Joseph Bristow and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fin de siècle not only designated the end of the Victorian epoch but also marked a significant turn towards modernism. Extraordinary Aesthetes critically examines literary and visual artists from England, Ireland, and Scotland whose careers in poetry, fiction, and illustration flourished during the concluding years of the nineteenth century. This collection draws special attention to the exceptional contributions that artists, poets, and novelists made to the cultural world of the late 1880s and 1890s. The essays illuminate a range of established, increasingly acknowledged, and lesser-known figures whose contributions to this brief but remarkably intense cultural period warrant close attention. Such figures include the critically neglected Mabel Dearmer, whose stunning illustrations appear in Evelyn Sharp’s radical fairy tales for children. Equally noteworthy is the uncompromising short fiction of Ella D’Arcy, who played a pivotal role in editing the most famous journal of the 1890s, The Yellow Book. The discussion extends to a range of legendary writers, including Max Beerbohm, Oscar Wilde, and W.B. Yeats, whose works are placed in dialogue with authors who gained prominence during this period. Bringing women’s writing to the fore, Extraordinary Aesthetes rebalances the achievements of artists and writers during the rapidly transforming cultural world of the fin de siècle.

Book CliffsNotes on Wilde s The Picture of Dorian Gray

Download or read book CliffsNotes on Wilde s The Picture of Dorian Gray written by Stanley P Baldwin and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001-03-07 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. In CliffsNotes on The Picture of Dorian Gray, you explore Oscar Wilde’s great works about narcissism, rife with symbolism and classic themes. Here, you meet Dorian Gray and discover his secret pact with the devil to stay young and handsome, and the subsequent destruction of his soul. This study guide carefully walks you through Dorian’s story by providing summaries and critical analyses of each chapter of the novel. You'll also explore the life and background of the author, Oscar Wilde, and gain insight into how he came to write this novel. Other features that help you study include A list of characters Glossaries to define new and unfamiliar terms Critical essays about Oscar Wilde’s views and life A review section that tests your knowledge A list of online resources for more study Classic literature or modern-day treasure—you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.

Book Bibliography of Oscar Wilde

Download or read book Bibliography of Oscar Wilde written by Stuart Mason and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: