Wilde style : the plays and prose of Oscar Wilde
Sammells, Neil2000
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Review: "Wilde Style examines the major prose and plays of Oscar Wilde and argues that his dominant aesthetic category is not art but style, and that this emphasis on style and attitude helps mark Wilde so graphically as our contemporary. Beginning with a survey of current Wilde criticism, the book goes on to demonstrate the way his own critical essays anticipate much contemporary cultural theory and inform his practice as a writer." "Wilde Style provides an invaluable up-to-date summary of Wilde studies and will be of interest to students of Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Literature, Irish Literature, Drama, Cultural Theory and Postcolonial Literature at all levels."--BOOK JACKET.
Main title:
Wilde style : the plays and prose of Oscar Wilde / Neil Sammells.
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Imprint:
Harlow, England ; New York : Longman, 2000.
Collation:
143 pages ; 24 cm.
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Notes:
Bibliography: p. 130-138. - Includes index.Includes bibliographical references (p. [130]-138) and index.
Contents:
1. Origin and Terminus -- 2. Theorizing Style: The Essays -- 3. Theory into Practice: Dorian Gray and Salome -- 4. Theory into Practice: The Society Comedies -- 5. From Baudelaire to Bowie.
ISBN:
0582357608 (paperback)
Dewey class:
828.809
Local class:
828.8
Language:
English
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BRN:
11661
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