...Wilde frequently makes use of the cross-disciplinary potential of different art forms to influence each other. Wilde here deploys the device of quaesitio through a series of rhetorical questions ...in order to expose his views on the relationship between Art and Life. If Life imitates Art, then the dandy's metropolitan experience is moulded in the poetical representation of the London cityscape. Situated on the edge of the expanding London city, between the age-old King's Road and the Thames, Tite street and the bohemian inhabitants of its independent studio-houses would soon challenge the values of the age and embody a new aesthetic art and architecture well into the twentieth century (Cox 28).
Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legendexplores 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 ofDe 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.
Lanham and London: Lexington Books, 2021, $111.00, $45.00 ebook. Since the 1980s Oscar Wilde has undergone a critical transformation from a superficial wit whose life merited more attention than his ...work to a politically engaged, provocative, and influential thinker, and two new books-Deaglan O Donghaile's Oscar Wilde and the Radical Politics of the Fin de Siecle and David Walton's Wilde Between the Sheets: Oscar Wilde, Mail Bondage, and "De Profundis"-offer valuable and notably different contributions to this ever-growing body of scholarship. A detailed appreciation of "The Soul of Man under Socialism" (1891) outlines Wilde's rejection of market values, utilitarianism, and institutional authority as stunting forces that degrade individual and artistic expression. Perhaps less convincingly, Algernon's guzzling of Jack's '89 champagne is identified as a second reference to "the worst excesses of the French Revolution," despite its vintage obviously being 1889 not 1789 (Wilde qtd. in O Donghaile 187). Walton does not aspire, as a number of critics have done, to locate Wilde as a precursor to modern and contemporary theoretical debates, but rather puts Wilde in direct conversation with them-quite literally in his concluding critical dialogue "Playtex(i)t" where Wilde becomes a character in dialogue with a cast including Roland Barthes, Stephen Greenblatt, Ian Small, Marshall McLuhan, and the ghosts of Robert Louis Stevenson and Hermann Hesse, with added interjections from "Book" and "Endnotes" (226, 214).
This volume presents interpretive essays utilizing a variety of approaches to honor the 160th anniversary of Oscar Wilde's birth, celebrating the writer's genius. This unique collection of ...scholarship explores a broad spectrum of subjects, including his travels, sexuality, children's literature, jail writings, novel, poetry, individualism, masks, homosexuality, influence on others, and morality. It offers historical, biographical, psychological and sociological perspectives written by international experts and features a broad spectrum of subjects which will appeal to a range of scholars seeking original and alternative approaches to understanding Oscar Wilde, his aesthetics and his influence in a variety of genres in the twenty-first century. The multiplicity of interest in the writer expands across genres, disciplines, cultures and time. Quintessential Wilde examines his intellectual strength in "His Worldly Place," analyzes his ingenious thoughts in "His Penetrating Philosophy," and recounts his enduring place in "His Influential Aestheticism.".
While recurrent laryngeal nerve injury is the leading cause of lawsuits in thyroid surgery, delayed diagnosis is the leading cause of malpractice lawsuits in thyroid cancer specifically.5 Indeed, the ...article describing this finding explicitly recommends liberal use of thyroid ultrasonography and fine-needle aspiration to mitigate the risk of being sued.5 Defensive medicine is greater in states with higher risk of medical tort. ...more than 60 years ago, Crile2 wrote that "the ability of a papillary carcinoma of the thyroid to metastasize depends more on the biologic behavior of the tumor than on whether it is treated early in its clinical course." Payer3 has cited Dr Gunnar B. Stickler's words on the subject: "If you practice to protect yourself, that is malpractice." Because the authors raise the question of physician lawsuit fears, I must state that even more fear may be generated by what has been termed the "tyranny of guidelines.
The most significant resource for any researcher wishing to understand the finer details of Oscar Wilde's remarkable career, the "Oscar Wilde and His Circle" archive at the University of California, ...Los Angeles houses the world's largest collection of materials relating to the life and work of the gifted Irish writer. Wilde Discoveries brings together thirteen studies based on research done in this archive that span the course of Wilde's work and shed light on previously neglected aspects of Wilde's lively and varied professional and personal life. This volume offers fresh approaches to well-known works such as 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' while paying serious attention to his lesser known writings and activities, including his earliest attempts at emulating the English Romantics, his editing of 'Woman's World', and his fascination with anarchism. A detailed introduction by the volume editor ties the essays together and illustrates the distinctive evolution of research on this great writer's extraordinary career.
Oscar Wilde's short story "The Portrait of Mr. W. H." is the story of a small group in search of the identity of the person to whom William Shakespeare famously (and enigmatically) dedicated his ...collection of sonnets, a man known only as Mr. W. H. Scholars have debated for centuries the man's true name, and Oscar Wilde jumped into that conversation in 1889 with the publication of his story. In this paper, I argue that Wilde's story is not as much about identifying Mr. W. H. as it is about preserving his own authorial legacy for future generations. In pursuing this argument, I offer a close reading of the text filtered through the lens of Roland Barthes' "The Death of the Author," and conclude that Wilde sought to perpetuate his name through the facilitation of academic debate about his collected works.
Converting the place that destroyed him into a refuge for art feels so perfect we have to do it" (Banksy pledges" para. 10). The depth of Wildes association between prison and art in his prison ...narrative De Profundis, however, is often obfuscated or mystified in the critical literature, not least of all because the association remains perplexing, unusual, and difficult to parse out. What did Wilde mean to convey about the self, the past, and art within the words of this significant and oft-discussed prison narrative? While the long narrative is ostensibly a letter addressed to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas, affectionately named Bosie, the narrative is essentially about his self, composed as a way to rewrite the terms and history of his imprisonment.5 And while the letter speaks openly to Bosie with an intimate first- and second-person perspective, its construction of a personal narrative of selfdevelopment and self-release suggests it was meant to be deliberately overheard by others-especially by all those in the future who would be in a position to look at and judge Wilde not from the eyes of the Victorian state but rather "with different eyes" (De Profundis and Other Prison Writings DPOPW 161).6 In De Profundis, Wilde rewrites (or perhaps better put, writes over) history and state law, treating prison as a site for artistic reckoning with those parts of the past, intimate and personal in nature, which elide authoritative historical and legal narratives about him. The laws, histories, and factual rationalizations of state power, which had punished him with a criminal sentence and defined him as a prisoner, are not the terms with which Wilde, as prisoner-artist, concerns himself.7 Prison becomes not a site to escape in order to return back to something (e.g., normal society, non-prisoner life, and so on) but rather a site of artistic self-change, one which promotes neither the death of self nor the denial of aestheticism.
