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Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Literary Criticism of Oscar Wilde written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226897648
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book The Artist as Critic written by Oscar Wilde and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint. Originally published: New York: Random House, [1969]
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (119 download)
Download or read book The Artist as Critic written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Signet Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780451529343
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (293 download)
Download or read book The Best of Oscar Wilde written by Oscar Wilde and published by Signet Classics. This book was released on 2004 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, A Woman of No Importance, Lady Windermere's Fan, and Salomé, this collection showcases Wilde's brilliance and timeless wit.
Author : Stanley Weintraub
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Literary Criticism of Oscar Wilde written by Stanley Weintraub and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Frankel
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472110698
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Oscar Wilde's Decorated Books written by Nicholas Frankel and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With extensive reference to and exposition on Wilde's theoretical writings and letters, Frankel shows that, far from being marginal elements of the literary text, these decorative devices were central to Wilde's understanding of his own writings as well as to his "aesthetic" theory of language. Extensive illustrations support Frankel's arguments.".
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Intentions written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1891 when Wilde was at the height of his form, these brilliant essays on art, literature, criticism, and society display the flamboyant poseur's famous wit and wide learning. A leading spokesman for the English Aesthetic movement, Wilde promoted "art for art's sake" against critics who argued that art must serve a moral purpose. On every page of this collection the gifted literary stylist admirably demonstrates not only that the characteristics of art are "distinction, charm, beauty, and imaginative power," but also that criticism itself can be raised to an art form possessing these very qualities.In the opening essay, Wilde laments the "decay of Lying as an art, a science, and a social pleasure." He takes to task modern literary realists like Henry James and Emile Zola for their "monstrous worship of facts" and stifling of the imagination. What makes art wonderful, he says, is that it is "absolutely indifferent to fact, [art] invents, imagines, dreams, and keeps between herself and reality the impenetrable barrier of beautiful style, of decorative or ideal treatment."The next essay, "Pen, Pencil, and Poison," is a fascinating literary appreciation of the life of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, a talented painter, art critic, antiquarian, friend of Charles Lamb, and - murderer.The heart of the collection is the long two-part essay titled "The Critic as Artist." In one memorable passage after another, Wilde goes to great lengths to show that the critic is every bit as much an artist as the artist himself, in some cases more so. A good critic is like a virtuoso interpreter: "When Rubinstein plays ... he gives us not merely Beethoven, but also himself, and so gives us Beethoven absolutely...made vivid and wonderful to us by a new and intense personality. When a great actor plays Shakespeare we have the same experience."Finally, in "The Truth of Masks," Wilde returns to the theme of art as artifice and creative deception. This essay focuses on the use of masks, disguises, and costume in Shakespeare.For newcomers to Wilde and those who already know his famous plays and fiction, this superb collection of his criticism offers many delights.
Author : Bruce Bashford
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838637692
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (376 download)
Download or read book Oscar Wilde written by Bruce Bashford and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the second half of Bashford's book, he looks at Wilde's criticism as an expression of humanism."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Joseph Bristow
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300208308
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Oscar Wilde's Chatterton written by Joseph Bristow and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Oscar Wilde's Chatterton, Joseph Bristow and Rebecca N. Mitchell explore Wilde's fascination with the eighteenth-century forger Thomas Chatterton, who tragically took his life at the age of seventeen. This innovative study combines a scholarly monograph with a textual edition of the extensive notes that Wilde took on the brilliant forger who inspired not only Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Keats but also Victorian artists and authors. Bristow and Mitchell argue that Wilde's substantial “Chatterton” notebook, which previous scholars have deemed a work of plagiarism, is central to his development as a gifted writer of criticism, drama, fiction, and poetry. This volume, which covers the whole span of Wilde's career, reveals that his research on Chatterton informs his deepest engagements with Romanticism, plagiarism, and forgery, especially in later works such as “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.,”The Picture of Dorian Gray, and The Importance of Being Earnest. Grounded in painstaking archival research that draws on previously undiscovered sources,Oscar Wilde's Chatterton explains why, in Wilde's personal canon of great writers (which included such figures as Charles Baudelaire, Gustave Flaubert, Théophile Gautier, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti), Chatterton stood as an equal in this most distinguished company.
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (824 download)
Download or read book Literary criticism of Oscar Wilde. Edited by Stanley Weintraub written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julia Prewitt Brown
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813918884
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (188 download)
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
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Rise Of Historical Criticism written by Oscar Wilde and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-12 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rise of Historical Criticism, published in complete form in 1908, is a mature essay by Oscar Wilde, evaluating the history and current state of criticism. The writer goes back in history and tries to remould the art of criticism with allusions to various critics, genres, and periods. Filled with wit and sublimity, the essay is a comprehensive piece of writing that enlightens the ordinary sense through innovative spirit. Historical criticism nowhere occurs as an isolated fact in the civilisation or literature of any people. It is part of that complex working towards freedom which may be described as the revolt against authority. It is merely one facet of that speculative spirit of an innovation, which in the sphere of action produces democracy and revolution, and in that of thought is the parent of philosophy and physical science; and its importance as a factor of progress is based not so much on the results it attains, as on the tone of thought which it represents, and the method by which it works. A gifted poet, playwright and wit, Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) was a phenomenon in 19th-century England. He was illustrious for preaching the importance of style in life and art, and of attacking Victorian narrow-mindedness. Wilde is immortalized through his works, and the stories he wrote for children, such as "The Happy Prince" and "The Selfish Giant", are still vibrant in the imagination of the public, especially "The Picture of Dorian Gray", the story of a young handsome man who sells his soul to a picture to have eternal youth and beauty, only to face the hideousness of his own portrait as it ages, which entails his evil nature and degradation.
Author : Josephine M. Guy
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780198119616
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (196 download)
Download or read book The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde written by Josephine M. Guy and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-09-06 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume IV of the Oxford English Texts Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the first variorum edition of Wilde's major critical writing; it includes the critical essays which were re-published in book-form in his life-time - that is, those anthologised in Intentions and The Soul of Man - as well as his graduate essay usually known by the title The Rise of Historical Criticism, but which this volume titles Historical Criticism. The Introduction gives a detailed account of the composition of each of the essays: it gives a new explanation for the relationship between the 'The Decay of Lying' and 'Pen, Pencil, and Poison' (arguing that they are best understood as companion pieces); it provides the first concrete demonstration that Wilde did, on occasions, knowingly 'copy' his own work; and it reveals that substantial cuts were made to some of Wilde's essays (without his full consent) by the periodical editors with whom he worked. The edition also provides, for the first time, a full collation of the textual variants between the published versions of Wilde's essays (that is, both book and periodical), and all extant manuscripts; in addition it establishes a new, authoritative text for Historical Criticism, based on an examination of the original manuscript, which differs significantly from that printed by Robert Ross in his 1908 Collected Edition (and subsequently reprinted in the Collins Complete Works). The annotation to the edition reveals the full extent of Wilde's 'borrowings' both from his own work, and from other writers; it also reveals that much of Historical Criticism is in fact paraphrasing or translating well-known classical texts, and that the some of denseness of the argument is due to ellipses in Wilde's text that were disguised by earlier editors.
Author : E.H. Mikhail
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349035777
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Oscar Wilde written by E.H. Mikhail and published by Springer. This book was released on 1978-06-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Freedman
Publisher : Pearson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Oscar Wilde written by Jonathan Freedman and published by Pearson. This book was released on 1996 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all Literature and/or Literary Criticism courses. A generation ago Prentice Hall's Twentieth Century Views series set the standard for truly useful collections of literary criticism on widely studied authors. These collections of essays, selected and introduced by distinguished scholars, made the most informative and provocative critical work on each writer easily available to students, scholars, and the general public. Now the New Century Views series, co-edited by Richard Brodhead and Maynard Mack, offers volumes of the same excellence for the contemporary moment. Each volume captures and makes accessible the most stimulating critical writing of our time on crucial literary figures of the past and present. Also included in each is an introduction to the author's life and work, a chronology of important dates, and a selected bibliography.
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Best of Oscar Wilde written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar Wild's infamous wit, taste for scandal, and gift for revealing the hypocrisies of fashionable society are featured here in this collection of his finest plays. A genius both of and ahead of his time, he built his craft on the eternal questions of right and wrong - with pithy, dialogue as fresh today as when it was written. In addition to Wilde's five major plays, this Signet Classics edition contains: Two interviews with the playwright at the peak of his career, in which Wilde discusses his work - and his critics ; Some of his most brilliant critical writing, in which he discusses the nature of art in terms that anticipate much of today's literary theory ; An appendix that restores valuable lines that appeared in the original text of The Importance of Being Earnest ; With an introduction by Sylvan Barnet and a new Afterword by Marylu Hill.
Author : Regenia Gagnier
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Critical Essays on Oscar Wilde written by Regenia Gagnier and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gagnier's introduction and selection of essays on Wilde (1854-1900) mainly concern contemporary American criticism, including three original essays written for this volume. Together they constitute an assessment of what Wilde's work and history mean for the US at this juncture of world history and social theory. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
