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Salome's modernity
Oscar Wilde's 1891 symbolist tragedySaloméhas had a rich afterlife in literature, opera, dance, film, and popular culture.Salome's Modernity: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgressionis the first comprehensive scholarly exploration of that extraordinary resonance that persists to the present. Petra Dierkes-Thrun positions Wilde as a founding figure of modernism andSaloméas a key text in modern culture's preoccupation with erotic and aesthetic transgression, arguing that Wilde'sSalomémarks a major turning point from a dominant traditional cultural, moral, and religious outlook to a utopian aesthetic of erotic and artistic transgression. Wilde andSaloméare seen to represent a bridge linking the philosophical and artistic projects of writers such as Mallarmé, Pater, and Nietzsche to modernist and postmodernist literature and philosophy and our contemporary culture. Dierkes-Thrun addresses subsequent representations of Salome in a wide range of artistic productions of both high and popular culture through the works of Richard Strauss, Maud Allan, Alla Nazimova, Ken Russell, Suri Krishnamma, Robert Altman, Tom Robbins, and Nick Cave, among others.
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Philosophy and Oscar Wilde
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.
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Oscar Wilde in Vienna
Oscar Wilde in Vienna is the first book-length study in English of the reception of Oscar Wilde's works in the German-speaking world. Charting the plays' history on Viennese stages between 1903 and 2013, it casts a spotlight on the international reputation of one of the most popular English-language writers while contributing to Austrian cultural history in the long twentieth century. Drawing on extensive archival material, the book examines the appropriation of Wilde's plays against the background of political crises and social transformations.It unravels the mechanisms of cultural transfer and canonisation within an environment positioned - like Wilde himself - at the crossroads of centre and periphery, tradition and modernity.
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Henry James Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture
In this engaging and provocative reading of the relations between two canonical Anglo-American authors and the aesthetic culture they helped create, Michèle Mendelssohn challenges critical assumptions about Aestheticism's response to anxieties about nationality, sexuality, identity, influence, originality and morality. This book, the first fully sustained reading of Henry James's and Oscar Wilde's relationship, reveals why the antagonisms between both authors are symptomatic of the cultural oppositions within Aestheticism itself. The book also shows how these conflicting energies animated the late nineteenth century's most exciting transatlantic cultural enterprise.
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The Catholic Imaginations of J.R.R. Tolkien and Oscar Wilde
This paper uses terminology from The Catholic Imagination by Andrew Greeley to explore the influence of Catholicism on the writings of Oscar Wilde and J.R.R. Tolkien. Greeley asserts that Catholics see metaphors for the transcendent in matter, value community within a well-ordered hierarchy, and sanctify suffering--qualities that abound in the writings of Wilde and Tolkien. I begin with short biographical sketches of both authors, paying special attention to Wilde's and Tolkien's varied involvement with orthodox Catholicism. I then move into a discussion about both authors' aesthetic philosophies and the similar value they see in art. Next, I detail the authors' transubstantiation of matter into the divine and demonic. I then examine various poems, letters, and essays of both authors to determine how the Catholic sense of community informed their political outlooks. Finally, I examine the Catholic insistence on the value of suffering as it appears in the writings of these authors. This study reveals the extent to which the Catholic worldview affected the aesthetic quality of Tolkien's and Wilde's works, deepening our understanding of the interplay between religion and fantasy. While the critical conversation surrounding the commonalities between these hitherto incongruous authors is small, recent scholarship is beginning to note the striking connections between these two masters of fantastical literature.
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من الأعماق : رسائل أوسكار وايلد من السجن
يتحدث الكتاب عن رسائل هذه الرسائل حصاد المعاناة والحسرة التي قضى بها أوسكار وايلد أيامه في السجن التي تجرعها وحيدا ومخذولا دون أن تتاح له فرصة رواية قصته من منظوره الخاص رسائل أرسلت إلى العالم قبل أن تصل إلى ألفريد دوجلاس تتضح فيها طبيعة العلاقة التي جمعتهما وأثرها على حياة وايلد وفنه وما آلت إليه من خساة وخذلان وكأنه كان يكتب ليكون هنا ليكون حرا ليحلق ولو قليلا رغم الجرح الذي يطوق جناحيه كتبه أوسكار وايلد على شكل رسالة وجهها من السجن لصديقه الحميم اللورد ألفريد دوغلاس ولكنه منع من إرسالها فاحتفظ بها لحين خروجه من السجن ليسلمها بعد ذلك لمحرره الأدبي روبرت روس الذي قام بنشر الرسالة على شكل كتاب بعد وفاة أوسكار وايلد.
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Corporeal Abjection and Hopefulness in Oscar Wilde’s “Charmides” (1881)
This paper addresses the potential relationship between corporality, abjection, and hope in Oscar Wilde’s “Charmides” (1881). The main aim of inspecting this connection is to establish how Wilde makes use of abjection in order to defend the idea that sexual dissidence can, indeed, offer the possibility of hope. In other words, the paper focuses on how Wilde describes abject bodies and abject bodily acts in the poem in a way that ultimately defies the social and moral conventions of his period. It argues that acts that may be considered abject –such as same-sex desire– can be hopeful when addressed from a different perspective. This paper hopes to establish a clear connection between the poem, the abject, and Wilde’s defiance of the sexual mores of his period.
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