Download or read book Oscar Wilde written by André Gide and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oscar Wilde written by André Gide and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oscar Wilde a study written by André Gide and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This valuable study on Oscar Wilde was written by his friend André Gide after his death. French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Andre Gide befriended Wilde in Paris in 1895. Wilde was a renowned Irish poet and playwright of the late nineteenth century. He was most famous for his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and comic masterpieces such as Lady Windermere's Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest. Wilde was a spokesperson for the late 19th-century Aesthetic movement in England and played a significant role in the celebrated civil and criminal suits concerning homosexuality that ended in his imprisonment. After writing in various forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most recognized playwrights in London in the early 1890s. Contents include: Poem by Oscar Wilde Introductory Inscription on Oscar Wilde's Tombstone Letters from M. André Gide Oscar Wilde: From the French of André Gide Sonnet 'To Oscar Wilde,' by Augustus M. Moore List of Published Writings of Oscar Wilde Bibliographical Notes on The English Editions
Download or read book Studying Oscar Wilde written by Josephine M. Guy and published by E & L Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Studying Oscar Wilde: History, Criticism, & Myth takes issue with many assumptions current in Wilde scholarship. Professors Guy and Small are interested in the tension between Wilde's enduring popularity with the general reading public as a perennially witty entertainer and his status among academics as a complex, politicized writer attuned to the cultural and philosophical currents associated with modernity. A number of commonly held views are challenged." "To what extent is De Profundis autobiographical? How sophisticated is the learning exhibited in Intentions? In what ways are the society comedies "about" homosexuality?" "The volume also examines some of Wilde's lesser-known, unfinished works and scenarios, including The Cardinal of Avignon, La Sainte Courtisane, and A Florentine Tragedy (all printed as appendices), arguing that these "failed" works provide important insight into the reasons for Wilde's popular success." "Guy and Small have authored numerous articles and books on Wilde. This new book will be a must read for scholars, but it is also written in a jargon-free language that speaks to the wider audience of readers who enjoy Oscar Wilde."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece written by Iain Ross and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar Wilde's imagination was haunted by ancient Greece; this book traces its presence in his life and works.
Download or read book Oscar Wilde written by Patrick Braybrooke and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oscar Wilde written by André Gide and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a study of the life and works of Oscar Wilde.
Download or read book Oscar Wilde Revalued written by Ian Small and published by E & L Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of letters, complete with analysis, reappraises Oscar Wilde, showing him to be a dedicated and professional writer, attentive to dealing with publishers and cultivating reviewers. It highlights recent changes in outlook towards Wilde.
Download or read book Pen Pencil and Poison written by Oscar Wilde and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2022-04-06 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Pen, Pencil, and Poison’ is one of Wilde’s most intriguing essays. Part biography, part social commentary, and part philosophical debate, he writes the biography of an art critic, who was also convicted of murder. However, in true Wildean style, there’s more to the essay than meets the eye. While documenting the life and crimes of Thomas Griffiths Wainwright, Wilde explores the ideas of dual identity, sin in the formation of the personality, and the relationship between crime and culture. ‘Pen, Pencil, and Poison’ is a fascinating insight into some of the conventions of the time. Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish novelist, poet, playwright, and wit. He was an advocate of the Aesthetic movement, which extolled the virtues of art for the sake of art. During his career, Wilde wrote nine plays, including ‘The Importance of Being Earnest,’ ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan,’ and ‘A Woman of No Importance,’ many of which are still performed today. His only novel, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ was adapted for the silver screen, in the film, ‘Dorian Gray,’ starring Ben Barnes and Colin Firth. In addition, Wilde wrote 43 poems, and seven essays. His life was the subject of a film, starring Stephen Fry.
Download or read book Oscar Wilde written by John E. Barlas and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oscar Wilde a Critical Study written by Arthur Ransome and published by London : M. Secker. This book was released on 1912 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study of Oscar Wilde written by Walter Winston Kenilworth and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oscar Wilde written by Robert Thurston Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Preface to Oscar Wilde written by Anne Varty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Preface to Oscar Wilde provides a detailed study of the cultural, personal and political influences that shaped Wilde's writing. The study concentrates primarily on his fiction, critical dialogues and plays that were published between 1890 and 1895, and detailed accounts of Wilde's lesser known works such as his poetry, journalism and letters are also presented. The first section places his work in a variety of cultural contexts: Wilde's family life and his Irish inheritance are examined, the impact of his sexuality on his writing and reputation is considered, and a description is provided of how Wilde became a legendary figure in the arts. Major innovations and successes, such as The Picture of Dorian Gray, Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest are related to avant garde movements of their day such as aestheticism, decadence, and symbolism. Reference sections provide supporting material such as a Wilde chronology, a glossary of terms and a bibliography for further study. Anne Varty sets out in this study to bring to life the work of Wilde, and to make his writing accessible to readers who are unfamiliar with his achievements. In so doing, she confronts the ethical drive of his work, and demonstrates the coherent evolution of his work from the aestheticism of the early poetry, through the sophisticated handling of theatre, to the dark self-scrutiny of autobiography. The comprehensive and accessible approach makes this a useful reference work to all who are studying Oscar Wilde, both at A Level and undergraduate level. The content will also appeal to the general reader who is seeking to gain a greater understanding and appreciation of Wilde's work.
Download or read book Making Oscar Wilde written by Michèle Mendelssohn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with new evidence, "Making Oscar Wilde" tells the untold story of a local Irish eccentric who became a global cultural icon. This must-read book dramatizes Oscar Wilde's remarkable rise in Victorian England and post-Civil War America. Michele Mendelssohn interweaves biography and social history to reveal a life like no other.
Download or read book Oscar Wilde in America written by Oscar Wilde and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-01-06 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Better known in 1882 as a cultural icon than a serious writer, Oscar Wilde was brought to North America for a major lecture tour on Aestheticism and the decorative arts. With characteristic aplomb, he adopted the role as the ambassador of Aestheticism, and he tried out a number of phrases, ideas, and strategies that ultimately made him famous as a novelist and playwright. This exceptional volume cites all ninety-one of Wilde's interviews and contains transcripts of forty-eight of them, and it also includes his lecture on his travels in America.
Download or read book Beautiful Untrue Things written by Gregory Mackie and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Borrowing its title from Oscar Wilde's essay "The Decay of Lying," this study engages questions of fraudulent authorship in the literary afterlife of Oscar Wilde. The unique cultural moment of Wilde's early-twentieth-century afterlife, Gregory Mackie argues, afforded a space for marginal and transgressive forms of literary production that, ironically enough, Wilde himself would have endorsed. Beautiful Untrue Things recovers the careers of several forgers who successfully inhabited the persona of the Victorian era's most infamous homosexual and arguably its most successful dramatist. More broadly, this study tells a larger story about Oscar Wilde's continued cultural impact at a moment when he had fallen out of favour with the literary establishment. It probes the activities of a series of eccentric and often outrageous figures who inhabited Oscar Wilde's much-mythologized authorial persona - in forging him, they effectively wrote as Wilde - in order to argue that literary forgery can be reimagined as a form of performance. But to forge Wilde and generate "beautiful untrue things" in his name is not only an exercise in role-playing - it is also crucially a form of imaginative world-making, resembling what we describe today as fan fiction.
