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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Oscar Wilde"”.
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The Irish Prince: Irishness in the Works of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde's place - Wilde's short fiction, an early drama and poetry in criticism reveals, Wilde's Irishness is in his work more palpable than it might seem on Wilde's mother, the nationalist poet Speranza who Wilde's collections of fairy " " In the fourth chapter, Wilde's collection of " " …
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The figure of Christ in the works of Oscar Wilde
… the figure of Christ in the mature writings of Oscar Wilde. I have avoided references to the life of the author as far as possible in my text, partly because biographical critism, in the specific case of Oscar Wilde, has often interfered with a judicious assessment of his writings--writings that …
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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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The Fallen Woman: An Exploration of the Voiceless Women in Victorian England through Three Plays of Oscar Wilde
… essay establishes the Christian myth within Wilde’s three plays, calling attention to the gender politics that he fought against in the Victorian era. Through Salomé, A Woman of No Importance, and An Ideal Husband I will prove the Christological myth that each play adopts and establish …
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Monstrous and Beautiful: Jungian Archetypes in Wilde’s <em>Salomé</em>
… is the 1891 play <em>Salom</em><em>é</em>, by Oscar Wilde and my thesis addresses the modern psychological implications of the cultural truths revealed by Wilde's re-vision of the myth of that biblical femme fatale. I argue that in fashioning a tragic heroine out of a female monster figure of …
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Oscar Wilde's Fiction: Views on Life and Art
<p>Oscar Wilde depicts different views on life and art. The stories selected have common themes of wealth (monetary/non-monatary), love, devotion, self-destruction and death:: <em>The Picture of Dorian Gray</em>, "The Happy Prince," "The Devoted Friend," "The Selfish Giant," and "The Rose and the …
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Esthetics of Dedalus and Bloom: nineteenth century roots, structural metaphors, and resolutions
… Algernon Swinburne, Walter Horatio Pater, Oscar Wilde and William Butler Yeats. Stephen Dedalus and his esthetics, particularly as they appear in <em>Portrait</em>, are inheritors of that tradition. Further, the study will trace through <em>Ulysses</em> the evolution of the esthetic and its …
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On knowingness : irony and queerness in the works of Byron, Heine, Fontane, and Wilde
… Lord Byron, Heinrich Heine, Theodor Fontane, and Oscar Wilde. Key to the understanding of irony is Friedrich Schlegel's re-evaluation of the concept. The thesis establishes an approach to the multifaceted concept of irony and identify key concepts of queer theory. The focus, however, is close …
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The Man in the Transatlantic Crowd: The Early Reception of Edgar Allan Poe in Victorian England
… strain back across the Atlantic, where Oscar Wilde melded aspects of Poe's fiction to his own unique form of satire and social critique.
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Queer Things: Victorian Objects and the Fashioning of Homosexuality
… the objects 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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Obscured Visions: Psychology, Religion, and Mysticism in J. SHeridan Le Fanu's In a Glass Darkly
… than his contemporaries such as Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Charles Maturin—even though he likely influenced these later authors. Le Fanu’s novels and short stories explore the cultural zeitgeist of nineteenth-century Ireland and England in great detail—with …
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Enquanto a interface vira corpo: considerações sobre a construção do corpo gay na contemporaneidade digital
… Adicionalmente, utilizo Salomé, personagem de Oscar Wilde, como alegoria para descrever meu ponto de vista sobre dinâmicas e poder que identifico no aplicativo.
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The Visual Novel: Fictional Space and Print After 1900
… press editions of works by Laurence Sterne and Oscar Wilde. At times when screen culture advances print’s obsolescence, both historically and more recently, visual writing makes print predominant in the media ecology once again by drawing upon the very technologies that threaten it, and my …
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Artistic (mis)representation and commodity culture in The Picture of Dorian Gray and The House of Mirth
… a trans-Atlantic connection between authors Oscar Wilde and Edith Wharton by considering the manner in which each author's respective protagonist relates to art, commodities, and the society in which he or she lives. By reading Dorian Gray and Lily Bart through the lens of Jean Baudrillard's …
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The Battle of Good and Evil in The Picture of Dorian Gray
… of Dorian Gray is the only novel published by Oscar Wilde. The novel is considered to be one of the most controversial literary works of the 19th century. In his novel Wilde uses his three main characters to reflect the battle of good and evil that exists in every man. The conflict of choosing …
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The Epitome And Portrait Of Modern Society: Ouida As Social Barometer Of The Victorian Era
… authors such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson when charting the progression of the various social anxieties that informed the Victorian age. These, along with other authors considered part of the canon, offer valuable insight into nineteenth-century …
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The Many Functions of Taste: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century England
… manufacturing, taste helped make sense of a bewildering array of relationships among individuals, objects, and social groups. As a category associated with consumption, taste foregrounds the charged interaction between aesthetic object and perceiving subject. It raises the question of how we …
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