romantyczne-mysli: Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde and Feminism. Oscar Wilde has recently been appropriated by feminist scholars in two distinct ways. On the one hand he is read as a proto-feminist writer, with feminist sympathies, whose editorial work publicised many women writers, and who publicly supported the causes of female education - especially to university level - female suffrage, and female participation in the workplace. However, many others have pointed out that despite this, there remains a powerful and important level of extreme misogyny running throughout his work, and that this must be read back into his political and aesthetic commitments. This article warns that, before we peremptorily attempt to assimilate Wi…

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Women as figures of disorder in the plays of Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde's plays on upper-class Victorian society are set apart from contemporary drama both by their wit and their reappraisal of conventions, particularly in dealing with transgressive women. The fallen woman's prominence in popular culture and the stage during a period of intense suffragism attests to woman's role as a touchstone of moral stability, contemporary plays viewing deviant women as threats to a man's world. Wilde mocks society's confinement of women, fallen or not, into prescribed roles and undercuts customary morality but fears self-determining women's disruptive power. A tool of perceiving this ambivalence is the s…

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Oscar Wilde as a Character in Victorian Fiction, by Angela Kingston. Reviewed by: Oscar Wilde as a Character in Victorian Fiction Joseph Bristow (bio) Oscar Wilde as a Character in Victorian Fiction, by Angela Kingston; pp. xiv + 304. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, £40.00, $90.00. One of the funniest episodes in Ella Hepworth Dixon’s amusing My Flirtations (1892), published under the telltale pseudonym “Margaret Wynman,” occurs when the woman narrator recalls the “dinners and Sunday lunches” that the “curiously pretty, incredibly malicious, and indisputably ‘smart’” Val Redmond gave “at his house in Sloane Street” (59). Even though he retained “a little following of you…

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Oscar Wilde at Home. Oscar, Constance, Speranza (and Bosie) are “at home” in the exquisitely beautiful Florence Court House this Mayday weekend. House guests will include Jack, Algy, Gwendolen and Cecily from the Importance of Being Earnest, (not to mention the redoubtable Lady Bracknell), Lord and Lady Windermere, the impetuous Lord Darlington, and the precocious Dorian Gray. Visitors will be conducted throughout the house where a range of short scenes from Wilde’s most popular works will be performed live by actors in each of the principal rooms. Is it life or is it art? Come and decide for yourself as we welcome you to the witty, complex and contradictory world of Oscar Wilde. Conceived…

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Oscar Wilde, Philosopher And Aesthete: An Examination Of The Evolving Aesthetic Of Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde was one of the many men of intellectual stature in the nineteenth century who openly embraced and lauded Darwin's theory of evolution. However, with Wilde in particular, there is a kind of irony involved in this simple fact, since Wilde himself was a man highly aware and conscious of his own consistent and personal evolution. He anticipated, among others, Lawrence's feeling and belief that the "old stable ego" had had its day, and that human psychology was infinitely complex and required much insight and examination to be understood. For this reason any study of Wilde must be developm…