Wilde Between the Sheets (eBook)

Oscar Wilde, Mail Bondage and De Profundis

David Walton (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
262 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-1422-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Wilde Between the Sheets: Oscar Wilde, Mail Bondage and De Profundis argues that Oscar Wilde's narrative strategies reveal a quick-witted, ingenious fighteran active agent who tested boundaries and recognized the dangers of doing so, adopting essentialist or anti-essentialist strategies according to whatever shifting purpose he is writing with. David Walton challenges the one-dimensional view of Wilde as a tragic victim defeated by the penal system, arguing that Wilde constructed a self by weaving complex networks of time and paradoxical notions of space, along with a network of literary references and other intertexts. Walton goes on to claim that Wilde fashions a self while simultaneously being shaped by those he fashions, creating a critical dialogue which shows that, by constructing Wilde through interpretive acts, he has already been partially fashioned by Wilde himself.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.10.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: creative criticism • Cultural Studies • "homosexual" crime • Intertextuality • Literary Theory • materialist criticism • Poetics of space • Postmodernism • poststructuralism • Prison Literature • self-fashioning • sexual politics • Time • Trials • Victorian Literature
• ISBN-10: 1-7936-1422-9 / 1793614229
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7936-1422-3 / 9781793614223