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Philosophy and Oscar Wilde

Author : Michael Y. Bennett
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137579587
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and Oscar Wilde written by Michael Y. Bennett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-22 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first collection of essays to discuss Oscar Wilde’s love and vast knowledge of philosophy. Over the past few decades, Oscar Wilde scholars have become increasingly aware of Wilde’s love and intimate knowledge of philosophy. Wilde’s “Oxford Notebooks” and his soon-to-be-published “Notebook on Philosophy” all point to Wilde not just as an aesthete, but also as a serious philosophical thinker. The aim of this collection is not to make the statement that Wilde was a philosopher, or that his works were philosophical tracts. Rather, it provides a space to explore any and all linkages between Wilde’s works and philosophical thought. Addressing a broad spectrum of philosophical matter, from classical philology to Daoism, ethics to aestheticism, this collection enriches the literature on Wilde and philosophy alike.

Cosmopolitan Criticism

Author : Julia Prewitt Brown
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813918884
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book Cosmopolitan Criticism written by Julia Prewitt Brown and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brown (English, Boston U.) places Wilde in the continuum of continental philosophy from Kant and Schiller through Kierkegaard and Nietzsche to Benjamin and Adorno, discussing his conception of art, its meaning, and the contradictory relations between art and the sphere of the ethical everyday. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Resist Everything Except Temptation

Author : Kristian Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781849353205
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Resist Everything Except Temptation written by Kristian Williams and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book that penetrates the surface of the Oscar Wilde mythos to uncover the radical politics that propelled his art.

Quintessential Wilde

Author : Annette M. Magid
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443868442
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Quintessential Wilde written by Annette M. Magid and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents interpretive essays utilizing a variety of approaches to honor the 160th anniversary of Oscar Wilde’s birth, celebrating the writer’s genius. This unique collection of scholarship explores a broad spectrum of subjects, including his travels, sexuality, children’s literature, jail writings, novel, poetry, individualism, masks, homosexuality, influence on others, and morality. It offers historical, biographical, psychological and sociological perspectives written by international experts and features a broad spectrum of subjects which will appeal to a range of scholars seeking original and alternative approaches to understanding Oscar Wilde, his aesthetics and his influence in a variety of genres in the twenty-first century. The multiplicity of interest in the writer expands across genres, disciplines, cultures and time. Quintessential Wilde examines his intellectual strength in “His Worldly Place,” analyzes his ingenious thoughts in “His Penetrating Philosophy,” and recounts his enduring place in “His Influential Aestheticism.”

Aestheticism, Evil, Homosexuality, and Hannibal

Author : Geoff Klock
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498548490
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Aestheticism, Evil, Homosexuality, and Hannibal written by Geoff Klock and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late 19th century England, Oscar Wilde popularized aestheticism, also known as art-for-art’s-sake – the idea that art, that beauty, should not be a vehicle for morality or truth, but an end in-and-of-itself. Rothko and Jackson Pollock enthroned the idea, creating paintings that are barely graded panels of color or wild splashes. Today, pop culture is aestheticism’s true heir, from the perfect charismatic emptiness of Ocean’s Eleven to the hyper-choreographed essentially balletic movements in the best martial arts movies. But aestheticism has a dark core, one that Social Justice Activists are now gathering to combat, revealing the damaging ideology reflected in or concealed by our most beloved pop culture icons. Taking Bryan Fuller’s television version of Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter as its main text – and taking Žižek-style illustrative detours into Malcolm in the Middle, Dark Knight Rises, Harry Potter, Interview with a Vampire, Dexter and more – this book marshals Walter Pater, Camille Paglia, Nietzsche, the Marquis de Sade, Kant and Plato, as well as Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Baudelaire, Beckett, Wallace Stevens and David Mamet to argue that Fuller’s show is a deceptively brilliant advance of aestheticism, both in form and content – one that investigates how deeply art-for-art’s-sake, and those of us who consciously or unconsciously worship at its teat, are necessarily entwined with evil.

Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486111008
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom written by Oscar Wilde and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amusing, thought-provoking epigrams, aphorisms, and other jests from the plays, essays, and lively conversation of Oscar Wilde offer a feast of humorous and profound quips. Nearly 400 quotes.

Oscar Wilde and the Simulacrum

Author : Giles Whiteley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351555464
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde and the Simulacrum written by Giles Whiteley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar Wilde is more than a name, more than an author. From precocious Oxford undergraduate to cause celebre of the West End of the 1890s, to infamous criminal, the proper name Wilde has become an event in the history of literature and culture. Taking Wilde seriously as a philosopher in his own right, Whiteley's groundbreaking book places his texts into their philosophical context in order to show how Wilde broke from his peers, and in particular from idealism, and challenges recent neo-historicist readings of Wilde which seem content to limit his irruptive power. Using the paradoxical concept of the simulacrum to resituate Wilde's work in relation to both his precursors and his contemporaries, Whiteley's study reads Wilde through Deleuze and postmodern philosophical commentary on the simulacrum. In a series of striking juxtapositions, Whiteley challenges us to rethink both Oscar Wilde's aesthetics and his philosophy, to take seriously both the man and the mask. His philosophy of masks is revealed to figure a truth of a different kind - the simulacra through which Wilde begins to develop and formulate a mature philosophy that constitutes an ethics of joy.

Oscar Wilde on Dress (ebook)

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : CSM Press
ISBN 13 : 0989532712
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (895 download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde on Dress (ebook) written by Oscar Wilde and published by CSM Press. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including The Philosophy Of Dress by Oscar Wilde. The recent print version was the first this work had been for the first time it had been published in 128 Years, and in book form for the first time ever. Now this is the first ebook.The work now forms the centerpiece of this unique collection of Wilde's writings on dress. As a compendium this book also includes several rarely published period articles and letters by Wilde on dress and fashion, along with a related exchange of correspondence that forms an instructional discourse. In addition there are generously annotated and illustrated chapters that analyze the importance of dress in the historical context of the writing career of Oscar Wilde, and a comprehensive review of the influences, trends, characters and source material that informed the development of his dress philosophy.The whole constitutes a thorough examination of a previously overlooked aspect in the Wilde canon, which should prove to be of interest not only to Wildean scholars, but also to anyone who enjoys his style of writing. Oscar Wilde continues to be favorably reappraised as a one of the most culturally avant garde tastemakers of the late nineteenth century. In an ever fashion-conscious world it is fitting that the themes explored, like the author himself, are still relevant. In this respect the book will also be of historical value to fashion students, historians, and practitioners.

Analytic Philosophy and the World of the Play

Author : Michael Y. Bennett
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315294729
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Analytic Philosophy and the World of the Play written by Michael Y. Bennett and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Theatre and the mirror of nature -- Part I Exposing the problem and proposing a solution -- 1 Theatrical names and reference: Dialectical-synecdochic objects and "re-creation"--2 The world of the play: Theatre as "re-creation"--Part II Applying the (proposed) solution to the problems -- 3 "Liveness"? The presumption of dramatic and theatrical "liveness" -- 4 Boundedness of (fictional) theatre to our (real) world: Actor and audience -- 5 Identity across "possible worlds": "The world beyond" the play -- Conclusions -- #1 The purpose of playing: Why go to the theatre? -- #2 Where the world of theatre ends: Performance art -- #3 Make-believe -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index

In Praise of Disobedience

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788730356
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)

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Download or read book In Praise of Disobedience written by Oscar Wilde and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Works of Wilde’s annus mirabilis of 1891 in one volume, with an introduction by renowned British playwright. The Soul of Man Under Socialism draw on works from a single miraculous year in which Oscar Wilde published the larger part of his greatest works in prose—the year he came into maturity as an artist. Before the end of 1891, he had written the first of his phenomenally successful plays and met the young man who would win his heart, beginning the love affair that would lead to imprisonment and public infamy. In a witty introduction, playwright, novelist and Wilde scholar Neil Bartlett explains what made this point in the writer’s life central to his genius and why Wilde remains a provocative and radical figure to this day. Included here are the entirety of Wilde’s foray into political philosophy, The Soul of Man Under Socialism; the complete essay collection Intentions; selections from The Portrait of Dorian Gray as well as its paradoxical and scandalous preface; and some of Wilde’s greatest fictions for children. Each selection is accompanied by stimulating and enlightening annotations. A delight for fans of Oscar Wilde, In Praise of Disobedience will revitalize an often misunderstood legacy.

Oscar Wilde : Art and Morality

Author : Stuart Mason
Publisher : Mundus Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde : Art and Morality written by Stuart Mason and published by Mundus Publishing. This book was released on 1908 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Oscar Wilde in America

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252034724
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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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.

Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241251818
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast written by Oscar Wilde and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself' Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece

Author : Iain Ross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107020328
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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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.

The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde

Author : Peter Raby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521479875
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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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.

Oscar Wilde's Oxford Notebooks

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde's Oxford Notebooks written by Oscar Wilde and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This, the first publication of Oscar Wilde's Commonplace Book and Notebook, which he kept during his middle twenties at the end of his studies at Oxford, will forever alter critical perceptions of Wilde's achievement in the larger tradition of English critical and aesthetic thought. Containing the records of his education and reading--quotations and paraphrases of other writers, and Wilde's own analytical and descriptive jottings, comments, and fragmentary drafts--these documents reveal how Wilde developed the synthesis of Hegelian idealism and Spencerian evolutionary theory that was to be a mainstay of his major critical and creative works. Not merely the dandy and aesthete of modernist myth, Wilde was also a precocious and widely-read Victorian humanist. In addition, the editors provide an introduction and commentary.

De Profundis and Other Prison Writings

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141920769
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book De Profundis and Other Prison Writings written by Oscar Wilde and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De Profundis and Other Prison Writings is a new selection of Oscar Wilde's prison letters and poetry in Penguin Classics, edited and introduced by Colm Tóibín. At the start of 1895, Oscar Wilde was the toast of London, widely feted for his most recent stage success, An Ideal Husband. But by May of the same year, Wilde was in Reading prison sentenced to hard labour. 'De Profundis' is an epistolic account of Oscar Wilde's spiritual journey while in prison, and describes his new, shocking conviction that 'the supreme vice is shallowness'. This edition also includes further letters to his wife, his friends, the Home Secretary, newspaper editors and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas - Bosie - himself, as well as 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol', the heart-rending poem about a man sentenced to hang for the murder of the woman he loved. This Penguin edition is based on the definitive Complete Letters, edited by Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland. Colm Tóibín's introduction explores Wilde's duality in love, politics and literature. This edition also includes notes on the text and suggested further reading. Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin. His three volumes of short fiction, The Happy Prince, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and A House of Pomegranates, together with his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, won him a reputation as a writer with an original talent, a reputation enhanced by the phenomenal success of his society comedies - Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest. Colm Tóibín is the author of five novels, including The Blackwater Lightship and The Master, and a collection of stories, Mothers and Sons. His essay collection Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar appeared in 2002. He is the editor of The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction.