romantyczne-mysli: Oscar Wilde

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Biographies: oscar wilde — the man, the life, the legend

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Wilde and Women. Abstract This chapter explores how Wilde’s position as an outsider, as well as his close relationships with women, laid the foundations for his depiction of strong rebellious women and his editorship of the Woman’s World. It develops its thesis via close analysis of Lady Windermere’s Fan, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and A Woman of No Importance. Putting these works in dialogue with Wilde’s life it shows how, in a misogynistic society, Wilde was often identified with femininity, while close at hand his mother Lady Jane Wilde and Lillie Langtry illustrated new ways of being women in the late nineteenth century.

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The Interrelationship of Victimization and Self-Sacrifice in Selected Works by Oscar Wilde. This study analyzes the themes of victimization and self-sacrifice as they appear in the life and works of Oscar Wilde. "Victimization" is defined as an instance in which one character disregards, damages, or destroys another's well-being; "self-sacrifice" is an instance in which one character acts to his own detriment in order to help another or through dedication to a cause or belief. Chapter I discusses the way in which these concepts affected Wilde's personal life. Chapters II-VI discuss their inclusion in his romantic/decadent dramas, social comedies, various stories and tales, novel, and final…