Author: Kathleen Riley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198789262
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Few authors of the Victorian period were as immersed in classical learning as Oscar Wilde. Although famous now and during his lifetime as a wit, aesthete, and master epigrammist, Wilde distinguished himself early on as a talented classical scholar, studying at Trinity College Dublin and Oxford and winning academic prizes and distinctions at both institutions. His undergraduate notebooks as well as his essays and articles on ancient topics reveal a mind engrossed in problems in classical scholarship and fascinated by the relationship between ancient and modern thought. His first publications were English translations of classical texts and even after he had 'left Parnassus for Piccadilly' antiquity continued to provide him with a critical vocabulary in which he could express himself and his aestheticism, an intellectual framework for understanding the world around him, and a compelling set of narratives to fire his artist's imagination. His debt to Greece and Rome is evident throughout his writings, from the sparkling wit of society plays like The Importance of Being Earnest to the extraordinary meditation on suffering that is De Profundis, written during his incarceration in Reading Gaol. Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity brings together scholars from across the disciplines of classics, ancient history, English literature, theatre and performance studies, and the history of ideas to explore the varied and profound impact that Graeco-Roman antiquity had on Wilde's life and work. This wide-ranging collection covers all the major genres of his literary output; it includes new perspectives on his most celebrated and canonical texts and close analyses of unpublished material, revealing as never before the enduring breadth and depth of his love affair with the classics.
Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity
Author: Kathleen Riley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198789262
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Few authors of the Victorian period were as immersed in classical learning as Oscar Wilde. Although famous now and during his lifetime as a wit, aesthete, and master epigrammist, Wilde distinguished himself early on as a talented classical scholar, studying at Trinity College Dublin and Oxford and winning academic prizes and distinctions at both institutions. His undergraduate notebooks as well as his essays and articles on ancient topics reveal a mind engrossed in problems in classical scholarship and fascinated by the relationship between ancient and modern thought. His first publications were English translations of classical texts and even after he had 'left Parnassus for Piccadilly' antiquity continued to provide him with a critical vocabulary in which he could express himself and his aestheticism, an intellectual framework for understanding the world around him, and a compelling set of narratives to fire his artist's imagination. His debt to Greece and Rome is evident throughout his writings, from the sparkling wit of society plays like The Importance of Being Earnest to the extraordinary meditation on suffering that is De Profundis, written during his incarceration in Reading Gaol. Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity brings together scholars from across the disciplines of classics, ancient history, English literature, theatre and performance studies, and the history of ideas to explore the varied and profound impact that Graeco-Roman antiquity had on Wilde's life and work. This wide-ranging collection covers all the major genres of his literary output; it includes new perspectives on his most celebrated and canonical texts and close analyses of unpublished material, revealing as never before the enduring breadth and depth of his love affair with the classics.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198789262
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Few authors of the Victorian period were as immersed in classical learning as Oscar Wilde. Although famous now and during his lifetime as a wit, aesthete, and master epigrammist, Wilde distinguished himself early on as a talented classical scholar, studying at Trinity College Dublin and Oxford and winning academic prizes and distinctions at both institutions. His undergraduate notebooks as well as his essays and articles on ancient topics reveal a mind engrossed in problems in classical scholarship and fascinated by the relationship between ancient and modern thought. His first publications were English translations of classical texts and even after he had 'left Parnassus for Piccadilly' antiquity continued to provide him with a critical vocabulary in which he could express himself and his aestheticism, an intellectual framework for understanding the world around him, and a compelling set of narratives to fire his artist's imagination. His debt to Greece and Rome is evident throughout his writings, from the sparkling wit of society plays like The Importance of Being Earnest to the extraordinary meditation on suffering that is De Profundis, written during his incarceration in Reading Gaol. Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity brings together scholars from across the disciplines of classics, ancient history, English literature, theatre and performance studies, and the history of ideas to explore the varied and profound impact that Graeco-Roman antiquity had on Wilde's life and work. This wide-ranging collection covers all the major genres of his literary output; it includes new perspectives on his most celebrated and canonical texts and close analyses of unpublished material, revealing as never before the enduring breadth and depth of his love affair with the classics.
Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece
Author: Iain Ross
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107020328
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Oscar Wilde's imagination was haunted by ancient Greece; this book traces its presence in his life and works.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107020328
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Oscar Wilde's imagination was haunted by ancient Greece; this book traces its presence in his life and works.
Greek Epigram in Reception
Author: Gideon Nisbet
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199662495
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Tracing the evolution and reception history of a collection of ancient Greek epigrams from the early nineteenth to twentieth century, the volume analyses the rhetoric which writers and translators brought to the text, highlighting the after effects of this cultural war on the interpretations of Ancient Greece in British print culture.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199662495
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Tracing the evolution and reception history of a collection of ancient Greek epigrams from the early nineteenth to twentieth century, the volume analyses the rhetoric which writers and translators brought to the text, highlighting the after effects of this cultural war on the interpretations of Ancient Greece in British print culture.
Oscar Wilde's Plagiarism
Author: Florina Tufescu
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780716529057
Category : Authorship
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This title offers a compact history of the meanings and uses of plagiarism from antiquity to the present. It is an interpretation of Oscar Wilde's plagiarism and of its impact on Joyce, Borges, Gide, and many others.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780716529057
Category : Authorship
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This title offers a compact history of the meanings and uses of plagiarism from antiquity to the present. It is an interpretation of Oscar Wilde's plagiarism and of its impact on Joyce, Borges, Gide, and many others.
Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity
Author: Jonas Grethlein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110719265X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
This book investigates the nature of aesthetic experience with the help of ancient material, exploring our responses to both narratives and images.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110719265X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
This book investigates the nature of aesthetic experience with the help of ancient material, exploring our responses to both narratives and images.
Oscar Wilde and the Cultures of Childhood
Author: Joseph Bristow
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319604112
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This is the first collection of critical essays that explores Oscar Wilde’s interest in children’s culture, whether in relation to his famous fairy stories, his life as a caring father to two small boys, his place as a defender of children’s rights within the prison system, his fascination with youthful beauty, and his theological contemplation of what it means to be a child in the eyes of God. The collection also examines the ways in which Wilde’s works—not just his fairy stories—have been adapted for young audiences.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319604112
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This is the first collection of critical essays that explores Oscar Wilde’s interest in children’s culture, whether in relation to his famous fairy stories, his life as a caring father to two small boys, his place as a defender of children’s rights within the prison system, his fascination with youthful beauty, and his theological contemplation of what it means to be a child in the eyes of God. The collection also examines the ways in which Wilde’s works—not just his fairy stories—have been adapted for young audiences.
British Aestheticism and Ancient Greece
Author: S. Evangelista
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230242200
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This book is the first comprehensive study of the reception of classical Greece among English aesthetic writers of the nineteenth century. By exploring this history of reception, it aims to give readers a new and fuller understanding of literary aestheticism, its intellectual contexts, and its challenges to mainstream Victorian culture.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230242200
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This book is the first comprehensive study of the reception of classical Greece among English aesthetic writers of the nineteenth century. By exploring this history of reception, it aims to give readers a new and fuller understanding of literary aestheticism, its intellectual contexts, and its challenges to mainstream Victorian culture.
Oscar Wilde's Aesthetic Education
Author: Leanne Grech
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030143740
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This book focuses on the role that the Oxford classical curriculum has had in shaping Oscar Wilde’s aestheticism. It positions Wilde as a classically trained intellectual and outlines the path he took to gain recognition as a writer and promoter of the aesthetic movement. This narrative is conveyed through a broad range of literary sources, including Wilde’s travel poetry, American lectures, and canonical works like ‘The Critic as Artist’, The Soul of Man, The Picture of Dorian Gray and De Profundis. This study proposes that Wilde approached aestheticism as a personalised, self-directed learning experience – a mode of self-culture – which could be used to maintain an intellectual life outside of the university. It also explores Wilde’s thoughts on education and considers the significance of male friendship at Oxford, and in Wilde’s life and literature.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030143740
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This book focuses on the role that the Oxford classical curriculum has had in shaping Oscar Wilde’s aestheticism. It positions Wilde as a classically trained intellectual and outlines the path he took to gain recognition as a writer and promoter of the aesthetic movement. This narrative is conveyed through a broad range of literary sources, including Wilde’s travel poetry, American lectures, and canonical works like ‘The Critic as Artist’, The Soul of Man, The Picture of Dorian Gray and De Profundis. This study proposes that Wilde approached aestheticism as a personalised, self-directed learning experience – a mode of self-culture – which could be used to maintain an intellectual life outside of the university. It also explores Wilde’s thoughts on education and considers the significance of male friendship at Oxford, and in Wilde’s life and literature.
The Oxford Handbook of Decadence
Author: Jane Desmarais
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190066954
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 745
Book Description
Edited by Jane Desmarais and David Weir.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190066954
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 745
Book Description
Edited by Jane Desmarais and David Weir.
Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English Fin de Siècle
Author: Stefano Evangelista
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198864248
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This volume explores the significance of cosmopolitanism for literary studies and argues that the English fin de siècle witnessed an intense debate about cosmopolitanism which in turn influenced literary representations of individual and national identity, and shaped attitudes towards the idea of world literature.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198864248
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This volume explores the significance of cosmopolitanism for literary studies and argues that the English fin de siècle witnessed an intense debate about cosmopolitanism which in turn influenced literary representations of individual and national identity, and shaped attitudes towards the idea of world literature.