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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
3034304390
ISBN-13
9783034304399
Edition
New
Publisher
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Imprint
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissensc
Country of Manufacture
CH
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 6th, 2010
Print length
222 Pages
Weight
328 grams
Dimensions
15.00 x 20.90 x 1.50 cms
Ksh 11,850.00
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Revisits Oscar Wilde's major writings through field of performance studies. Wilde wrote about performance as a cultural dialectic, as a form of serious and critical play, and as basis of a subversive poetics. This book traces Wilde's often-troubled relationship with late-Victorian society in terms of its attempts to define his public performances.
This book revisits Oscar Wilde’s major writings through the field of performance studies. Wilde wrote about performance as a cultural dialectic, as a form of serious and critical play, and as the basis of a subversive poetics. In his studies at Oxford University, his famous lecture tour of the United States and Canada, his friendships with famous actresses Sarah Bernhardt and Lillie Langtry, the writing of his critical essays, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Salome, and his society comedies, and culminating in his post-prison writings De Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Wilde develops a rich theory of performance that addresses aesthetics, ethics, identity and individualism. This book also traces Wilde’s often-troubled relationship with late-Victorian society in terms of its attempts to define his public performances by stereotyping him as both irrelevant and dangerous, from the early newspaper caricatures to its later description of him as a sexual monster.
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