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Author : Theodore F. Wolff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Wildeworld written by Theodore F. Wolff and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. Salamensky
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137011882
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The Modern Art of Influence and the Spectacle of Oscar Wilde written by S. Salamensky and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salamensky investigates Oscar Wilde, his contemporaries, and the public frenzy over his work and life as illustrating the crucial importance of performance in the construction of the 'modern' and our own, postmodern, lives.
Author : Michèle Mendelssohn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192523295
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Making Oscar Wilde written by Michèle Mendelssohn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witty, inspiring, and charismatic, Oscar Wilde is one of the Greats of English literature. Today, his plays and stories are beloved around the world. But it was not always so. His afterlife has given him the legitimacy that life denied him. Making Oscar Wilde reveals the untold story of young Oscar's career in Victorian England and post-Civil War America. Set on two continents, this book tracks a larger-than-life hero on an unforgettable adventure to make his name and gain international acclaim. 'Success is a science,' Wilde believed, 'if you have the conditions, you get the result.' Combining new evidence and gripping cultural history, Michèle Mendelssohn dramatizes Wilde's rise, fall, and resurrection as part of a spectacular transatlantic pageant. With superb style and an instinct for story-telling, she brings to life the charming young Irishman who set out to captivate the United States and Britain with his words and ended up conquering the world. Following the twists and turns of Wilde's journey, Mendelssohn vividly depicts sensation-hungry Victorian journalism and popular entertainment alongside racial controversies, sex scandals, and the growth of Irish nationalism. This ground-breaking revisionist history shows how Wilde's tumultuous early life embodies the story of the Victorian era as it tottered towards modernity. Riveting and original, Making Oscar Wilde is a masterful account of a life like no other.
Author : Gyles Brandreth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439172293
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Oscar Wilde and the Vampire Murders written by Gyles Brandreth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar Wilde and the Vampire Murders opens in 1890, at a glamorous party hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Albemarle. All of London’s high society—including the Prince of Wales—are in attendance at what promises to be the event of the season. Yet Oscar Wilde is more interested in another party guest, Rex LaSalle, a young actor who claims to be a vampire. But the entertaining evening ends in tragedy when the duchess is found murdered—with two tiny puncture marks on her throat. Desperate to avoid scandal and panic, the Prince asks Oscar and his friend Arthur Conan Doyle to investigate the crime. What they discover threatens to destroy the very heart of the royal family. Told through diary entries, newspaper clippings, telegrams, and letters, Oscar Wilde and the Vampire Murders is a richly atmospheric mystery that is sure to captivate and entertain.
Author : Pierpaolo Martino
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031304268
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)
Download or read book WILDE NOW written by Pierpaolo Martino and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-08 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WILDE NOWreads Oscar Wilde through our now, through a contemporary sensibility (and approach), in which literature and popular culture interrogate and are interrogated by critical concepts and categories such as performance, celebrity, intermediality, and consumerism. This volume exceeds the shape and meaning of a critical study to turn into a drama of five different acts/moments in Wilde’s life and work: his early performances in Dublin, London and Oxford; the 1882 American tour; his successful season of the first half of the 1890s, his prison years and finally his glorious resurrection in contemporary pop culture. Most importantly WILDE NOW approaches these moments through contemporary rewritings and performances of “Oscar Wilde” in the fields of cinema, music and literature by such artists as Al Pacino, Rupert Everett, Stephen Fry, Gyles Brandreth, David Hare, David Bowie, Morrissey, Nick Cave, Neil Tennant, Gavin Friday. These artists – through their awareness of the importance of being/playing Oscar in their specific worlds and cultural contexts – will also show us that Wilde can be conceived as a subversive, critical role one might successfully perform and appropriate, now more than ever.
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410342409
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)
Download or read book A Study Guide for Oscar Wilde's "Canterville Ghost" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Oscar Wilde's "Canterville Ghost," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
Author : Dylan Allen
Publisher : 1001 Dark Nights Press
ISBN 13 : 1951812484
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (518 download)
Download or read book The Daredevil: A Rivers Wilde Novella written by Dylan Allen and published by 1001 Dark Nights Press. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Dylan Allen comes a new story in her Rivers Wilde series… “I dare you to let me watch...” It was the wickedest of propositions, made by the most devilish of men. It doesn’t matter that Tyson Wilde has got a killer smile, wears a suit like it’s his job, and oozes spine-tingling sex appeal. I should say no. Because beneath the surface of that cool, disinterested exterior, lies passion hot enough to burn. I danced too close to it once and have the scars to prove it. So, on any other night, in any other city, and if he’d been even a fraction less mouthwatering, I would have been able to resist. But it’s my birthday, we’re in Paris, and it’s him. I can’t say no. I don’t want to say no. And this time, no matter how right we feel together, I won’t let myself forget that when this weekend is over, we will be, too. We’re only pretending to be lovers to land a deal. Success will mean a promotion—one I want more than anything. At least, that’s what I thought. Falling in love was a danger neither Tyson or I saw coming. And it will cost one of us everything. **Every 1001 Dark Nights novella is a standalone story. For new readers, it’s an introduction to an author’s world. And for fans, it’s a bonus book in the author’s series. We hope you'll enjoy each one as much as we do.**
Author : Sandra Marton
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0373131372
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (731 download)
Download or read book The Merciless Travis Wilde written by Sandra Marton and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wild before the storm Travis Wilde doesn't do love or commitment—but he'd never turn down a willing woman and a king-size bed. Normally innocence like Jennie Cooper's would have the same effect as a cold shower, yet her determination and mouth-watering curves have him burning up all over! The clock is ticking; forced to confront her life, Jennie is determined to cross some major things off her to-do list. Some might be risky—like taking on the renowned Travis Wilde—but Jennie has nothing to lose, except the one thing she thought was untouchable…her heart.
Author : Amy S. Watkin
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438126506
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Bloom's How to Write about Oscar Wilde written by Amy S. Watkin and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers advice on writing essays about the works of Oscar Wilde and lists sample topics.
Author : William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802035325
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (353 download)
Download or read book Wilde Writings written by William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring thirteen original essays that examine Wilde's achievements as an aesthete, critic, dramatist, novelist, and poet, this provocative and ground-breaking volume ushers the field of Oscar Wilde studies into the twenty-first century.
Author : Sandra Marton
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1460300521
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)
Download or read book The Ruthless Caleb Wilde written by Sandra Marton and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ruthless lawyer’s one night stand leaves him heartbroken—and hungry for more—in the USA Today–bestselling author’s delightful and delicious romance. Years of relentless work have put Caleb Wilde at the top of his profession—and hardened his heart. But one wild night in New York City changes everything. Now, he’s haunted by the memory of tangled sheets, unrivaled passion and one woman—Sage Dalton. The siren of his dreams is, in reality, the woman who played him for a fool—but still nothing can satiate his burning desire for her. So when he learns that Sage has something very precious that belongs to him, a gift from their one night together, Caleb will stop at nothing to claim it!
Author : Heather Fawcett
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 0593500148
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (935 download)
Download or read book Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries written by Heather Fawcett and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north in this “incredibly fun journey through fae lands and dark magic” (NPR), the start of a heartwarming and enchanting new fantasy series. “A darkly gorgeous fantasy that sparkles with snow and magic.”—Sangu Mandanna, author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, PopSugar Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world’s first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small talk at a party—or even get invited to one. And she prefers the company of her books, her dog, Shadow, and the Fair Folk to other people. So when she arrives in the hardscrabble village of Hrafnsvik, Emily has no intention of befriending the gruff townsfolk. Nor does she care to spend time with another new arrival: her dashing and insufferably handsome academic rival Wendell Bambleby, who manages to charm the townsfolk, muddle Emily’s research, and utterly confound and frustrate her. But as Emily gets closer and closer to uncovering the secrets of the Hidden Ones—the most elusive of all faeries—lurking in the shadowy forest outside the town, she also finds herself on the trail of another mystery: Who is Wendell Bambleby, and what does he really want? To find the answer, she’ll have to unlock the greatest mystery of all—her own heart. Book One of the Emily Wilde Series
Author : Neil Sammells
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317879503
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Wilde Style written by Neil Sammells and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new study of the major prose and plays of Oscar Wilde argues that his dominant aesthetic category is not art but style. It is this major emphasis on style and attitude which helps mark Wilde so graphically as our contemporary. Beginning with a survey of current Wilde criticism, the book demonstrates the way his own critical essays anticipate much contemporary cultural theory and inform his own practice as a writer.
Author : Professor Jason Camlot
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409474992
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic written by Professor Jason Camlot and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-28 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In analyzing the nonfiction works of writers such as John Wilson, J. S. Mill, De Quincy, Ruskin, Arnold, Pater, and Wilde, Jason Camlot provides an important context for the nineteenth-century critic's changing ideas about style, rhetoric, and technologies of communication. In particular, Camlot contributes to our understanding of how new print media affected the Romantic and Victorian critic's sense of self, as he elaborates the ways nineteenth-century critics used their own essays on rhetoric and stylistics to speculate about the changing conditions for the production and reception of ideas and the formulation of authorial character. Camlot argues that the early 1830s mark the moment when a previously coherent tradition of pragmatic rhetoric was fragmented and redistributed into the diverse, localized sites of an emerging periodicals market. Publishing venues for writers multiplied at midcentury, establishing a new stylistic norm for criticism-one that affirmed style as the manifestation of English discipline and objectivity. The figure of the professional critic soon subsumed the authority of the polyglot intellectual, and the later decades of the nineteenth century brought about a debate on aesthetics and criticism that set ideals of Saxon-rooted 'virile' style against more culturally inclusive theories of expression.
Author : Matthew Sturgis
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0525656375
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (256 download)
Download or read book Oscar Wilde written by Matthew Sturgis and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fullest, most textural, most accurate—most human—account of Oscar Wilde's unique and dazzling life—based on extensive new research and newly discovered materials, from Wilde's personal letters and transcripts of his first trial to newly uncovered papers of his early romantic (and dangerous) escapades and the two-year prison term that shattered his soul and his life. "Simply the best modern biography of Wilde." —Evening Standard Drawing on material that has come to light in the past thirty years, including newly discovered letters, documents, first draft notebooks, and the full transcript of the libel trial, Matthew Sturgis meticulously portrays the key events and influences that shaped Oscar Wilde's life, returning the man "to his times, and to the facts," giving us Wilde's own experience as he experienced it. Here, fully and richly portrayed, is Wilde's Irish childhood; a dreamy, aloof boy; a stellar classicist at boarding school; a born entertainer with a talent for comedy and a need for an audience; his years at Oxford, a brilliant undergraduate punctuated by his reckless disregard for authority . . . his arrival in London, in 1878, "already noticeable everywhere" . . . his ten-year marriage to Constance Lloyd, the father of two boys; Constance unwittingly welcoming young men into the household who became Oscar's lovers, and dying in exile at the age of thirty-nine . . . Wilde's development as a playwright. . . becoming the high priest of the aesthetic movement; his successes . . . his celebrity. . . and in later years, his irresistible pull toward another—double—life, in flagrant defiance and disregard of England's strict sodomy laws ("the blackmailer's charter"); the tragic story of his fall that sent him to prison for two years at hard labor, destroying his life and shattering his soul.
Author : Uwe Böker
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042014008
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Importance of Reinventing Oscar written by Uwe Böker and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present collection of essays is the outcome of the Oscar Wilde conference held at the Technical University of Dresden, 31 August - 3 September 2000. The papers cover a wide range of historical and comparative aspects: they look into the status of Wilde as poet, dramatist, essayist and intellectual during his own times as well as investigate the meaning of his work for subsequent writers and critics, thus, giving an outline of the Wildean history of literary reception, intellectual discourse and media transformation. Intellectually brilliant and challenging, Oscar Wilde had been a favourite of the late Victorians, performing the roles of the dandy and the poet of art for art's sake. However, due to his questioning of prevalent moral double standards and his insistence on the autonomy of art, he was indicted for gross indecencies, convicted, and sent to prison. Instead of being ostracised, he became a source of inspiration for writers and artists on the British isles as well as on the European continent. The papers in this volume explore such topics as Wilde's concepts of socialism and aestheticism, his fashioning of the femme fatale and of the dandy, his use of fashion and of simulation, his impact on modernism and postmodernism as well as on genres such as crime writing and fictional biography, and the influence of Wilde on writers such as James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Joe Orton, Peter Ackroyd, Tom Stoppard, David Hare and Mark Ravenhill. Other papers focus on the reception of Wilde in Russia, former Yugoslavia, Hungary and Germany as well as on cinematic and Internet representations of Wilde. Critical and creative responses vary from the general to the specific - from traditional assessments to analyses of the arts of camp, parody, and pastiche; thus, indicative of the (sub)cultural appropriation of 'Saint Oscar' (Terry Eagleton).
Author : Robert Cozzolino
Publisher : Chazen Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 9780932900005
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 ( download)
Download or read book With Friends written by Robert Cozzolino and published by Chazen Museum of Art. This book was released on 2005 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exhibition catalogue focuses on the art and friendships of the American artists Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-1977), Sylvia Fein (b. 1919), Marshall Glasier (1902-1988), Dudley Huppler (1917-1988), Karl Priebe (1914-1976), and John Wilde (b. 1919). The first intensive study of this close-knit group explores the artistic and personal relationships they shared. Cozzolino provides insight into a figurative branch of postwar American modernism that has been often neglected in favor of abstract expressionism. Distributed for the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison
