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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"De Profundis"”.
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Wilde's Final Act
<p>This thesis examines Oscar Wilde’s <em>De Profundis, </em>the prison-written letter to his ex-lover, as a work created with the signature Wildean dramatic conventions of composition, style, the writing process, and formal structure of which make up Wilde’s theatrical plays “Lady Windermere’s …
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The poetics of Libretti: reading the opera works of Gwen Harwood and Larry Sitsky.
… Canterbury Tales and excerpts from Boccaccio’s Decameron); Voices in Limbo (1977); The Golem (1980, first performed in 1993); and De Profundis (1982, a setting of Oscar Wilde’s letters). Both Harwood and her critics acknowledge the libretti as some of her best writing (Harwood cites her libretto …
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“I Will Take Your Answer One Way or Another”: The Oscar Wilde Trial Transcripts as Literary Artefacts
Oscar Wilde was not only an eccentric artist and perhaps one of the most popular British dramatists since Shakespeare, but also one of the – if not the – first modern star, who understood how to present oneself in public and use publicity as means of self-realisation. After discussing upcoming …
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Text and structure in Schoenberg's Op. 50, and an original composition, symphony #1
Part One of this document provides an analytical study of Schoenberg's final opus, Op. 50, three religious choral works written in the serial style: Driemal Tausend Jahre, Op. 50a (1949), De Profundis, Op. 50b (1950), and Modern Psalm, Op. 50c (1951). This study is divided into five chapters: an …
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Queer Things: Victorian Objects and the Fashioning of Homosexuality
… that circulate within the works of Oscar Wilde as well as in the output of high fashion designers and the critics and consumers who engaged with them, in order to ask how gay identities and affiliations are formed and expressed through things. Bringing recent critical interest in the …
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How She Haunts: Missed Endings, the Fragmentary, and the Female Figure in British Romanticism
… Three Graves,” “Christabel,” and “Kubla Khan”), De Quincey (<em>Suspiria de Profundis</em>), and Keats (“La Belle Dame Sans Merci” and <em>Lamia</em>). In critical discussions of the Romantic fragment, it is most often referred to as incomplete, lacking closure, and unintentionally so. The …
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Doubt and Faith in Tennyson's Poetry
… Wall," and "Crossing the Bar." But few readers of his poetry are aware of the frequent use of the words "doubt" and "faith" in these poems, as well as in a number of his other poems. A realization of the extensive use of these words presented the challenge for a study to determine how …