Reading Oscar Wilde

An Introduction
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-66230-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 290 g

Reihe: Reading Literature Today

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gillespie, Michael Patrick

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preparatory to Anything Else: What We Do When We Read

1. Life as a Brand

2. Making Performative Art

3. The Integrity of Wilde’s Short Fiction

4. Fifty Shades of Dorian Gray

5. Establishing a Dramatic Presence: Wilde’s Plays of the Early Nineties

6. Realizing “The Vital Importance of Being Earnest”

7. Aesthetic Occasions: Wilde’s Poetry

8. Blueprint of Creativity: Wilde’s Essays, Letters, and Miscellany

9. Conclusion: “The Only Thing Worse Than Being Talked About Is Not Being Talked About”

A Chronology of Important Dates in Oscar Wilde's Life

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

Bibliography

Filmography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Patrick Gillespie taught for 29 years at Marquette University as an Assistant, Associate, 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.