Reading Oscar Wilde

An Introduction

Michael Patrick Gillespie (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

200 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-66231-2 (ISBN)

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Reading Oscar Wilde is a comprehensive interpretive guide designed for students and readers who come to Wilde’s writings for the first time, delivering a fuller understanding of the works and the background from which the canon has emerged. This ready-at-hand compendium details the scholarly perspectives of Wilde’s vast literary output. Meticulously arranged, this accessible volume includes freestanding discussions of individual works, including clarification of Wilde’s pioneering contextual examinations and his innovative and influential stylistic achievements. Readers will find a solid foundation for understanding his works and will benefit from new insights into the impact of his writing on subsequent authors. Additionally, the surveys of the interpretive approaches offered by contemporary literary theories will highlight for readers a range of research possibilities. This book also includes lists of selected websites and artistic adaptations of Wilde’s works, a chronology of Wilde’s publications, and a comprehensive secondary bibliography to permit readers to develop both a wide-ranging background and a selective focus of interests.

Michael Patrick Gillespie taught for twenty-nine years at Marquette University as an Assistant, Associate, and a Full Professor and finally as the inaugural Louise Edna Goeden Professor of English. He is currently Professor of English at Florida International University. He has written books on film, literary theory, and the works of James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Kennedy.

Preparatory to Anything Else: What We Do When We Read

Chapter One—Life as a Brand

Chapter Two—Making Performative Art

Chapter Three—The Integrity of Wilde’s Short Fiction

Chapter Four—Fifty Shades of Dorian Gray

Chapter Five—Establishing a Dramatic Presence: Wilde’s Plays of the Early Nineties

Chapter Six—Realizing “the vital importance of being earnest”

Chapter Seven—Aesthetic Occasions: Wilde’s Poetry

Chapter Eight—Blueprint for Creativity: Wilde’s Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings

Chapter Nine—Conclusion: “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about”

Chronology

Appendix: John Ruskin, Walter Pater, and Art for Art’s Sake

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.2.2025
Reihe/Serie	Reading Literature Today
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-032-66231-X / 103266231X
ISBN-13	978-1-032-66231-2 / 9781032662312
Zustand	Neuware