Author: Iain Ross
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107020328
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Oscar Wilde's imagination was haunted by ancient Greece; this book traces its presence in his life and works.
Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece
Author: Iain Ross
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107020328
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Oscar Wilde's imagination was haunted by ancient Greece; this book traces its presence in his life and works.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107020328
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Oscar Wilde's imagination was haunted by ancient Greece; this book traces its presence in his life and works.
Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece
Author: Iain Ross
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107479944
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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 Drawing on unpublished archival material, Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece offers a new portrait of a writer whose work embodies both the late nineteenth-century conflict between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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107479944
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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 and Classical Antiquity
Author: Kathleen Riley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198789262
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
"Celebrated now and during his lifetime as a wit and aesthete, Oscar Wilde was also a talented classicist whose writings evince an enduring fascination with Graeco-Roman antiquity. This volume explores the impact of the classical world on his life and work, offering new perspectives on canonical texts and close analyses of unpublished material."--
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198789262
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
"Celebrated now and during his lifetime as a wit and aesthete, Oscar Wilde was also a talented classicist whose writings evince an enduring fascination with Graeco-Roman antiquity. This volume explores the impact of the classical world on his life and work, offering new perspectives on canonical texts and close analyses of unpublished material."--
British Aestheticism and Ancient Greece
Author: S. Evangelista
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230242200
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
This book is the first comprehensive study of the reception of classical Greece among English aesthetic writers of the nineteenth century. By exploring this history of reception, it aims to give readers a new and fuller understanding of literary aestheticism, its intellectual contexts, and its challenges to mainstream Victorian culture.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230242200
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
This book is the first comprehensive study of the reception of classical Greece among English aesthetic writers of the nineteenth century. By exploring this history of reception, it aims to give readers a new and fuller understanding of literary aestheticism, its intellectual contexts, and its challenges to mainstream Victorian culture.
The Writings of Oscar Wilde
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde...
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Greek Epigram in Reception
Author: Gideon Nisbet
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019163946X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Greek Epigram in Reception is a chronological survey of the reception history of the Greek Anthology, a Byzantine collection of ancient Greek short poems known as epigrams. Tracing the strange evolution of the Greek Anthology from the early nineteenth century to the years after the first World War, the volume analyses the complex webs of rhetoric that are spun as writers and translators bring their different agendas to bear on the Anthology's text, pruning it to meet their needs. As so little was known about its poets, and because it stood for the 'Anthology' of the Greeks and their culture, the text became the battleground during the 1870s-90s on which normative and dissident interpretations of Ancient Greece were fought out. An emergent mass readership became caught between opposing and rhetorically loaded accounts, casting the Anthology and thus the ancient race on whom the British were supposed to be modelling themselves as patriots and doting spouses or lovers of male Beauty, like the Decadent sensation Oscar Wilde. The after-effects of this cultural war were to stretch into the 1920s, and still echo today.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019163946X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Greek Epigram in Reception is a chronological survey of the reception history of the Greek Anthology, a Byzantine collection of ancient Greek short poems known as epigrams. Tracing the strange evolution of the Greek Anthology from the early nineteenth century to the years after the first World War, the volume analyses the complex webs of rhetoric that are spun as writers and translators bring their different agendas to bear on the Anthology's text, pruning it to meet their needs. As so little was known about its poets, and because it stood for the 'Anthology' of the Greeks and their culture, the text became the battleground during the 1870s-90s on which normative and dissident interpretations of Ancient Greece were fought out. An emergent mass readership became caught between opposing and rhetorically loaded accounts, casting the Anthology and thus the ancient race on whom the British were supposed to be modelling themselves as patriots and doting spouses or lovers of male Beauty, like the Decadent sensation Oscar Wilde. The after-effects of this cultural war were to stretch into the 1920s, and still echo today.
The Writings of Oscar Wilde ...
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Author: Norbert Kohl
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521176538
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Professor Kohl's aim is to gain fresh insight into his literary and critical Ĺ“uvre of Oscar Wilde. He analyses each of his works on the basis of a textually oriented interpretation, taking equal account of the biographical and intellectual contexts through the use of contradictions that Wilde show as individualism and convention.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521176538
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Professor Kohl's aim is to gain fresh insight into his literary and critical Ĺ“uvre of Oscar Wilde. He analyses each of his works on the basis of a textually oriented interpretation, taking equal account of the biographical and intellectual contexts through the use of contradictions that Wilde show as individualism and convention.