Oscar Wilde's Oxford Notebooks - 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's Oxford Notebooks write by Oscar Wilde. This book was released on 1989. Oscar Wilde's Oxford Notebooks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This, the first publication of Oscar Wilde's Commonplace Book and Notebook, which he kept during his middle twenties at the end of his studies at Oxford, will forever alter critical perceptions of Wilde's achievement in the larger tradition of English critical and aesthetic thought. Containing the records of his education and reading--quotations and paraphrases of other writers, and Wilde's own analytical and descriptive jottings, comments, and fragmentary drafts--these documents reveal how Wilde developed the synthesis of Hegelian idealism and Spencerian evolutionary theory that was to be a mainstay of his major critical and creative works. Not merely the dandy and aesthete of modernist myth, Wilde was also a precocious and widely-read Victorian humanist. In addition, the editors provide an introduction and commentary.
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
The Complete Works 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 The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde write by Josephine M. Guy. This book was released on 2007-09-06. The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Volume IV of the Oxford English Texts Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the first variorum edition of Wilde's major critical writing; it includes the critical essays which were re-published in book-form in his life-time - that is, those anthologised in Intentions and The Soul of Man - as well as his graduate essay usually known by the title The Rise of Historical Criticism, but which this volume titles Historical Criticism. The Introduction gives a detailed account of the composition of each of the essays: it gives a new explanation for the relationship between the 'The Decay of Lying' and 'Pen, Pencil, and Poison' (arguing that they are best understood as companion pieces); it provides the first concrete demonstration that Wilde did, on occasions, knowingly 'copy' his own work; and it reveals that substantial cuts were made to some of Wilde's essays (without his full consent) by the periodical editors with whom he worked. The edition also provides, for the first time, a full collation of the textual variants between the published versions of Wilde's essays (that is, both book and periodical), and all extant manuscripts; in addition it establishes a new, authoritative text for Historical Criticism, based on an examination of the original manuscript, which differs significantly from that printed by Robert Ross in his 1908 Collected Edition (and subsequently reprinted in the Collins Complete Works). The annotation to the edition reveals the full extent of Wilde's 'borrowings' both from his own work, and from other writers; it also reveals that much of Historical Criticism is in fact paraphrasing or translating well-known classical texts, and that the some of denseness of the argument is due to ellipses in Wilde's text that were disguised by earlier editors.
The French Influences on Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Salome
The French Influences on Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Salome - 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 The French Influences on Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Salome write by Christa Satzinger. This book was released on 1994. The French Influences on Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Salome available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Cosmopolitan Criticism
Cosmopolitan Criticism - 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 Cosmopolitan Criticism write by Julia Prewitt Brown. This book was released on 1997. Cosmopolitan Criticism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Brown (English, Boston U.) places Wilde in the continuum of continental philosophy from Kant and Schiller through Kierkegaard and Nietzsche to Benjamin and Adorno, discussing his conception of art, its meaning, and the contradictory relations between art and the sphere of the ethical everyday. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Southern Studies
Southern Studies - 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 Southern Studies write by . This book was released on 2004. Southern Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An interdisciplinary journal of the South.
