Arriving at the port of New York in 1882, a 27-year-old Oscar Wilde quipped he had “nothing to declare but my genius." But as this sparkling narrative reveals, Wilde was, rarely for him, underselling ...himself. A chronicle of his sensational eleven-month speaking tour of America, Declaring His Genius offers an indelible portrait of both Oscar Wilde and the Gilded Age. Neither Wilde nor America would ever be the same.
Oscar Wilde Frankel, Nicholas
2017, 2017-10-16
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Nicholas Frankel presents a revisionary account of Oscar Wilde's final years, spent in poverty and exile in Europe following his release from an English prison for the crime of gross indecency ...between men. Despite repeated setbacks and open hostility, Wilde—unapologetic and even defiant—attempted to rebuild himself as a man, and a man of letters.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) is now widely recognised not only as one of the most representative figures of the British fin de siècle, but as one of the most influential Anglophone authors of the ...nineteenth century. In Britain Wilde suffered a long period of comparative neglect following the scandal of his conviction for 'gross indecency' in 1895; and it is only recently that his works have been reassessed. But while Wilde was subjected to silence in Britain, he became a European phenomenon. His famous dandyism, his witticisms, paradoxes and provocations became the object of imitation and parody; his controversial aesthetic doctrines were a strong influence not only on decadent writers, but also on the development of symbolist and modernist cultures. This collection of essays by leading international scholars and translators traces the cultural impact of Oscar Wilde's work across Europe, from the earliest translations and performances of his works in the 1890s to the present day.
From his boyhood Oscar Wilde was haunted by the literature and culture of ancient Greece, but until now no full-length study has considered in detail the texts, institutions and landscapes through ...which he imagined Greece. The archaeology of Celtic Ireland, explored by the young Wilde on excavations with his father, informed both his encounter with the archaeology of Greece and his conviction that Celt and Greek shared a hereditary aesthetic sensibility, while major works such as The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest maintain a dynamic, creative relationship with originary texts such as Aristotle's Ethics, Plato's dialogues and the then lost comedies of Menander. Drawing on unpublished archival material, Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece offers a new portrait of a writer whose work embodies both the late-nineteenth-century conflict between literary and material antiquity and his own contradictory impulses towards Hellenist form and the formlessness of desire.
Oscar Wilde's 1891 symbolist tragedySaloméhas had a rich afterlife in literature, opera, dance, film, and popular culture.Salome's Modernity: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgressionis the ...first comprehensive scholarly exploration of that extraordinary resonance that persists to the present. Petra Dierkes-Thrun positions Wilde as a founding figure of modernism andSaloméas a key text in modern culture's preoccupation with erotic and aesthetic transgression, arguing that Wilde'sSalomémarks a major turning point from a dominant traditional cultural, moral, and religious outlook to a utopian aesthetic of erotic and artistic transgression. Wilde andSaloméare seen to represent a bridge linking the philosophical and artistic projects of writers such as Mallarmé, Pater, and Nietzsche to modernist and postmodernist literature and philosophy and our contemporary culture. Dierkes-Thrun addresses subsequent representations of Salome in a wide range of artistic productions of both high and popular culture through the works of Richard Strauss, Maud Allan, Alla Nazimova, Ken Russell, Suri Krishnamma, Robert Altman, Tom Robbins, and Nick Cave, among others.
In Oscar Wilde in Vienna, Sandra Mayer examines the reception and performance history of Oscar Wilde's dramatic works on Viennese stages from the turn of the twentieth century up to the present.
Pretende-se com este trabalho interpretar a noção de hedonismo em O Retrato de Dorian Gray,o único romance escrito por Oscar Wilde, no texto de partida e nos dois textos de chegada com maior número ...de edições em Portugal: a tradução de Januário Leite e a de Margarida Vale de Gato. Num primeiro momento, é analisado o conceito geral de hedonismo e o significado deste para Oscar Wilde, bem como exemplos concretos relacionados com tal doutrina filosófico-moral no texto de partida. Num segundo momento, é abordado o estatuto do autor no sistema de partida e no sistema de chegada, através de um breve estudo da sua recepção literária. Para avaliação da fortuna literária da obra em Portugal, procedeu-se adicionalmente a uma pesquisa atenta do histórico das mais de 30 publicações no nosso país, desde a primeira tradução feita no Brasil e posteriormente publicada em Portugal. São também esclarecidas as razões que levaram as editoras a apostar em várias edições e reimpressões dessa tradução da obra. Num terceiro momento, são dados a conhecer os perfis dos tradutores em foco, e, por fim, é feita uma comparaçãoentre os dois textos de chegada. Procura-se pôr em evidência em que medida o tradutor, como leitor e intérprete do texto de partida, o transforma, condicionado pelas suas vivências, pelo público a quem se dirige e pela época em que se insere. Por último, o presente estudo visa encontrar a resposta para a questão: de que forma o hedonismo de Wilde foi transfigurado, ao sabor dos tempos, das vontades das editoras, dos tradutores e dos leitores, na época do Estado Novo, com a tradução de Januário Leite, e, nofinal do século XX, com a de Margarida Vale de Gato.
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