Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture write by Joseph Bristow. This book was released on 2008. Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the meteoric rise, sudden fall, and legendary resurgence of this influential writer's reputation. In the years leading up to his two-year imprisonment, Wilde stood among the foremost dramatists in London. But after he was sent down for committing acts of "gross indecency" it seemed likely that social embarrassment would inflict irreparable damage to his legacy. He died in comparative obscurity. Little could he have realized that in five years his name would come back into popular circulation thanks to the success of Richard Strauss's opera Salomé and Robert Ross's edition of De Profundi. With each succeeding decade, the twentieth century continued to honor Wilde's name by keeping his plays in repertory, producing dramas about his life, adapting his works for film, and devising countless biographical and critical studies of his writings.
Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture
Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture write by Joseph Bristow. This book was released on 2009-01-12. Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend explores the meteoric rise, sudden fall, and legendary resurgence of an immensely influential writer’s reputation from his hectic 1881 American lecture tour to recent Hollywood adaptations of his dramas. Always renowned—if not notorious—for his fashionable persona, Wilde courted celebrity at an early age. Later, he came to prominence as one of the most talented essayists and fiction writers of his time. In the years leading up to his two-year imprisonment, Wilde stood among the foremost dramatists in London. But after he was sent down for committing acts of “gross indecency” it seemed likely that social embarrassment would inflict irreparable damage to his legacy. As this volume shows, Wilde died in comparative obscurity. Little could he have realized that in five years his name would come back into popular circulation thanks to the success of Richard Strauss’s opera Salome and Robert Ross’s edition of De Profundi. With each succeeding decade, the twentieth century continued to honor Wilde’s name by keeping his plays in repertory, producing dramas about his life, adapting his works for film, and devising countless biographical and critical studies of his writings. This volume reveals why, more than a hundred years after his demise, Wilde’s value in the academic world, the auction house, and the entertainment industry stands higher than that of any modern writer.
Salome's Modernity
Salome's Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Salome's Modernity write by Petra Dierkes-Thrun. This book was released on 2011-04-27. Salome's Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of Oscar Wilde's Salomé in modernist and postmodernist literature and culture
Modernist Aesthetics and Consumer Culture in the Writings of Oscar Wilde
Modernist Aesthetics and Consumer Culture in the Writings of Oscar Wilde - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modernist Aesthetics and Consumer Culture in the Writings of Oscar Wilde write by Paul Fortunato. This book was released on 2013-09-13. Modernist Aesthetics and Consumer Culture in the Writings of Oscar Wilde available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Oscar Wilde was a consumer modernist. His modernist aesthetics drove him into the heart of the mass culture industries of 1890s London, particularly the journalism and popular theatre industries. Wilde was extremely active in these industries: as a journalist at the Pall Mall Gazette; as magazine editor of the Women’s World; as commentator on dress and design through both of these; and finally as a fabulously popular playwright. Because of his desire to impact a mass audience, the primary elements of Wilde’s consumer aesthetic were superficial ornament and ephemeral public image – both of which he linked to the theatrical. This concern with the surface and with the ephemeral was, ironically, a foundational element of what became twentieth-century modernism – thus we can call Wilde’s aesthetic a consumer modernism, a root and branch of modernism that was largely erased.
Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture
Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture write by Michele Mendelssohn. This book was released on 2014-10-27. Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
