The importance of reinventing Oscar : versions of Wilde during the last 100 years / edited by Uwe Böker, Richard Corballis, Julie Hibbard.

Other author Böker, Uwe.
Other author Corballis, Richard.
Other author Hibbard, Julie A.
Format Book
Publication InfoAmsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2002.
Description303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Electronic LocationInhaltsverzeichnis
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SeriesInternationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 0929-6999 ; 61
Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 61.
Contents Introduction : Wilde on the fringe of Bohemia -- Oscar's last first night or, The impossibility of exhausting Earnest / John Dawick -- Wilde and the penalties of modernism / Kirby Farrell -- Oscar Wilde : socialite or socialist? / David C. Rose -- The trials of Oscar Wilde : the intersection between law and literature / Ronald C. Griffin -- Aesthetics of coldness : the case of Oscar Wilde/ Jürgen Klein -- Byron and Wilde : the dandy and the public sphere / Susanne Schmid -- Oscar Wilde and the stereotype of the aesthete : an investigation into the prerequisites of Wilde's aesthetic self-fashioning / Waleska Schwandt -- Wilde's lectures and trials : the imitation, reproduction, and simulation of poses / Michael Meyer -- Oscar's fashion : constructing a rhetoric of androgyny / Ines Detmers -- Oscar Wilde and the myth of the femme fatale in fin-de-siècle culture / Franz Meier -- Wilde's new women : the new woman on Wilde / Ann Heilmann -- Wilde's concept of love / Stefan Lange -- Wild essence of Wilde : Joyce's debt to Oscar in Ulysses / Richard Corballis -- Oscar Wilde's 'critic as artist' and the 'artist as critic' in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake / Catrin Siedenbiedel -- 'An echo of someone else's music' : the influence of Oscar Wilde on W.B. Yeats / Noreen Doody -- Oscar Wilde in crime literature / Heike Haase -- Stoppard's Oscar Wilde -- travesty and invention / Beatrix Hesse -- Of doormats and iced champagne : the Wilde trials in fictional biography / Lucia Krämer -- Oscar, the proto-postmodern? : Peter Ackroyd's The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde / Martin Middeke -- Writing 'Wilde' : the importance of re-presenting Oscar Wilde in fin-de-millénaire drama in English (Stoppard, Hare, Ravenhill) / Anja Müller-Muth -- Playing with Oscar -- camp as textual strategy in adaptations of The Importance of Being Earnest by Orton, Fleming and Ravenhill / Annette Pankratz -- Some German Oscar Wildes / Patrick Bridgwater -- K. Balmont's translation of Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol / Maria Kozyreva -- The reception of Oscar Wilde in Hungary : translator as critic -- critic as artist -- translator as artist / Krisztina Lajosi -- Wilde as moralist : a Bosnian reading / Zvonimir Radeljković -- Wild in the East : processes of mediation / Anna-Christina Giovanopoulos -- Games Wilde plays : a Wilde movie for the 1990s / Christoph Houswitschka -- Wilde's afterlife in cyberspace / Fritz-Wilhelm Neumann.
General notePapers from a conference held Sept. 2000 in Dresden.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Terms of useGBP12.30 0.
Genre/formKongress Dresden 2000.
Genre/formproceedings (reports)
Genre/formConference papers and proceedings.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre/formConference papers and proceedings.
Genre/formActes de congrè€s.
ISBN9042014008 (pbk.)
ISBN9789042014008 (pbk.)

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