The Importance of Reinventing Oscar by Richard Corballis
The present collection of essays is the outcome of the Oscar Wilde conference held at the Technical University of Dresden, 31 August - 3 September 2000. The papers cover a wide range of historical and comparative aspects: they look into the status of Wilde as poet, dramatist, essayist and intellectual during his own times as well as investigate the meaning of his work for subsequent writers and critics, thus, giving an outline of the Wildean history of literary reception, intellectual discourse and media transformation. Intellectually brilliant and challenging, Oscar Wilde had been a favourite of the late Victorians, performing the roles of the dandy and the poet of art for art's sake. However, due to his questioning of prevalent moral double standards and his insistence on the autonomy of art, he was indicted for gross indecencies, convicted, and sent to prison. Instead of being ostracised, he became a source of inspiration for writers and artists on the British isles as well as on the European continent.The papers in this volume explore such topics as Wilde's concepts of socialism and aestheticism, his fashioning of the femme fatale and of the dandy, his use of fashion and of simulation, his impact on modernism and postmodernism as well as on genres such as crime writing and fictional biography, and the influence of Wilde on writers such as James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Joe Orton, Peter Ackroyd, Tom Stoppard, David Hare and Mark Ravenhill. Other papers focus on the reception of Wilde in Russia, former Yugoslavia, Hungary and Germany as well as on cinematic and Internet representations of Wilde. Critical and creative responses vary from the general to the specific – from traditional assessments to analyses of the arts of camp, parody, and pastiche; thus, indicative of the (sub)cultural appropriation of 'Saint Oscar' (Terry Eagleton).
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Kafka, Gothic and Fairytale
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A Breath of Fresh Eyre
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Metamorphosis
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Texts Waiting for History
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Ex(tra)territorial
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The Evolution of Literature
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Negotiating Afropolitanism
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Relational Designs in Literature and the Arts
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The German Gothic Novel in Anglo-German Perspective
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Reading Contemporary African Literature
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Contemporary Indian Writing in English between Global Fiction and Transmodern Historiography
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Popular Music and the Poetics of Self in Fiction
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Literature and the Long Modernity
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Darwin Becomes Art
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Oscar Wilde in Vienna
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Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism, and National Culture
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Sites of Discourse - Public and Private Spheres - Legal Culture
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Postcolonial Postmortems
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The Singer and the Scribe
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‘This Anguish, Like a Kind of Intimate Song’
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Transkulturelle Beziehungen
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Schwindelerfahrungen
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Heroism and Passion in Literature
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Duras et Musil
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Transcultural Graffiti
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Cultural Functions of Intermedial Exploration
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War and the Cultural Construction of Identities in Britain
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La La Russie et les Russes dans la fiction francaise du XIXe siecle (1812-1917)
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British Romanticism and Italian Literature
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Oriental Panorama
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One Less Hope
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Petrarch's Canzoniere in the English Renaissance
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Neue Sachlichkeit 1918-33
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Making Sense
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Literaturvermittlung um 1900
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Remapping Reality
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Architectures of Poetry
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Empowering Contemporary Fiction in English
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Theodor Fontane and the European Context
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imagining the unimaginable
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Zeichen zwischen Klartext und Arabeske
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Waking the Face That No One Is
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Goethe, Chaos, and Complexity
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Methoden und Modelle der deutschen, französischen und amerikanischen Sozialgeschichte als Herausforderung für die Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
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Bidding for the Mainstream?
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Traiano Boccalini und der Anti-Parnass
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| ISBN 13 | 9789042014008 |
| ISBN 10 | 9042014008 |
| Title | The Importance of Reinventing Oscar |
| Author | Uwe Bker |
| Series | Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen Und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Year published | 2002-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 303 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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