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Oscar Wilde /

Contributor(s): Killeen, Jarlath, 1976-.
Series: Visions and revisions: 7.Publisher: Dublin ; Portland, OR : Irish Academic Press, 2011Description: xii, 210 p. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780716530749 (hbk.); 9780716530749:; 0716530740 (hbk.); 0716530759 (pbk.); 9780716530756 (pbk.).Subject(s): Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Criticism and interpretationDDC classification: 809
Contents:
Oscar Wilde: a chronology -- Introduction: Wilde's aphoristic imagination / Jarlath Killeen -- Oscar Wilde: fact and fictions of life / Noreen Doody -- 'Mixing memory and desire': the scandal of Oscar Wilde's neo-classical poetry / Florina Tufescu -- Oscar Wilde's short fiction: the hermeneutics of storytelling / Anne Markey -- From romanticism to fascism: the will to power in The picture of Dorian Gray / Michael Patrick Gillespie -- Oscar Wilde: the critic as dialectician / Bruce Bashford -- Performance and identity in the plays of Oscar Wilde / Sos Eltis -- Victorian or contemporary? Wilde and questions of heredity and inheritance / Anne Varty -- Oscar Wilde: caught in the Web / D.C. Rose.
Summary: This collection of original articles on Oscar Wilde and his writings covers all aspects of his work, from his neglected poetry to his renowned 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' and 'The Importance of Being Earnest'. Taken as a whole, the book represents a balanced view of contemporary Wilde studies.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-202) and index.

Oscar Wilde: a chronology -- Introduction: Wilde's aphoristic imagination / Jarlath Killeen -- Oscar Wilde: fact and fictions of life / Noreen Doody -- 'Mixing memory and desire': the scandal of Oscar Wilde's neo-classical poetry / Florina Tufescu -- Oscar Wilde's short fiction: the hermeneutics of storytelling / Anne Markey -- From romanticism to fascism: the will to power in The picture of Dorian Gray / Michael Patrick Gillespie -- Oscar Wilde: the critic as dialectician / Bruce Bashford -- Performance and identity in the plays of Oscar Wilde / Sos Eltis -- Victorian or contemporary? Wilde and questions of heredity and inheritance / Anne Varty -- Oscar Wilde: caught in the Web / D.C. Rose.

This collection of original articles on Oscar Wilde and his writings covers all aspects of his work, from his neglected poetry to his renowned 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' and 'The Importance of Being Earnest'. Taken as a whole, the book represents a balanced view of contemporary Wilde studies.

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