Author: Pierpaolo Martino
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031304268
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 249
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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: Joseph Bristow
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487546092
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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The fin de siècle not only designated the end of the Victorian epoch but also marked a significant turn towards modernism. Extraordinary Aesthetes critically examines literary and visual artists from England, Ireland, and Scotland whose careers in poetry, fiction, and illustration flourished during the concluding years of the nineteenth century. This collection draws special attention to the exceptional contributions that artists, poets, and novelists made to the cultural world of the late 1880s and 1890s. The essays illuminate a range of established, increasingly acknowledged, and lesser-known figures whose contributions to this brief but remarkably intense cultural period warrant close attention. Such figures include the critically neglected Mabel Dearmer, whose stunning illustrations appear in Evelyn Sharp’s radical fairy tales for children. Equally noteworthy is the uncompromising short fiction of Ella D’Arcy, who played a pivotal role in editing the most famous journal of the 1890s, The Yellow Book. The discussion extends to a range of legendary writers, including Max Beerbohm, Oscar Wilde, and W.B. Yeats, whose works are placed in dialogue with authors who gained prominence during this period. Bringing women’s writing to the fore, Extraordinary Aesthetes rebalances the achievements of artists and writers during the rapidly transforming cultural world of the fin de siècle.
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Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Author: Kristin Mahoney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 100902244X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 301
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Queer Kinship after Wilde investigates the afterlife of the Decadent Movement's ideas about kinship, desire, and the family during the modernist period within a global context. Drawing on archival materials, including diaries, correspondence, unpublished manuscripts, and photograph albums, it tells the story of individuals with ties to late-Victorian Decadence and Oscar Wilde who turned to the fin-de-siècle past for inspiration as they attempted to operate outside the heteronormative boundaries restricting the practice of marriage and the family. These post-Victorian Decadents and Decadent modernists engaged in translation, travel, and transnational collaboration in pursuit of different models of connection that might facilitate their disentanglement from conventional sexual and gender ideals. Queer Kinship after Wilde attends to the successes and failures that resulted from these experiments, the new approaches to affiliation inflected by a cosmopolitan or global perspective that occurred within these networks as well as the practices marked by Decadence's troubling patterns of Orientalism and racial fetishism.
Author: Anderson Galleries, Inc
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 746
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Author: Leonard Cresswell Ingleby
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 171
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This book explores the life of Oscar Wilde, the Irish poet and playwright whose wit and talent brought him to the forefront of London's theatrical scene in the late 1800s. From his famous novel, 'The Picture of Dorian Gray', to his tragic downfall following a high-profile trial for his sexuality, this biography delves into the highs and lows of his life and legacy. Wilde's captivating persona, sharp writing, and eventual demise make for a gripping read that sheds light on the cultural and social attitudes of the time.
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ISBN: 9781772330816
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Nick Wilde is a man content with his life. Business at his tattoo shop is booming, and he's never lacking for friends or female company. But when he meets Lia, he knows everything will change...A moment's flirtation and a kiss in the dark leaves Nick wanting more. When his Cinderella vanishes before the night is over, she leaves him nothing but her name and the memory of a kiss he can't forget.Chicago Police Detective Lia Archer's life doesn't have room for distractions, and that's exactly what Nick Wilde is. He's sexy, charming, and a threat to everything she's worked so hard to achieve. She ran out on him once, but when Nick reappears in her life, he's determined not to make it easy for her to vanish on him again.When past decisions and old secrets come back to haunt them, will the fairytale end, or will they find a way to reclaim their Happily Ever After?
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Category : Advertising
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Author: Maureen Carter
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 178010362X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 235
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A hardhitting Sarah Quinn police procedural Detective Inspector Sarah Quinn and her team are not having a good week. A series of horrifying, vicious street attacks have left the police baffled, with no leads to follow. Random acts of mindless violence? Or is there more to it than that? Meanwhile, a local businessman is threatening to sue the police for wrongful arrest, and Quinn’s professional nemesis, journalist Caroline King, is on the case in search of a story. But does Caroline have any idea what she’s getting herself into?
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
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Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 898
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