Reading Oscar Wilde: An Introduction
Reading Oscar Wilde is a comprehensive interpretive guide designed for students and readers who come to Wilde’s writings for the first time, delivering a fuller understanding of the works and the background from which the canon has emerged. This ready-at-hand compendium details the scholarly perspectives of Wilde’s vast literary output. Meticulously arranged, this accessible volume includes freestanding discussions of individual works, including clarification of Wilde’s pioneering contextual examinations and his innovative and influential stylistic achievements. Readers will find a solid foundation for understanding his works and will benefit from new insights into the impact of his writing on subsequent authors. Additionally, the surveys of the interpretive approaches offered by contemporary literary theories will highlight for readers a range of research possibilities. This book also includes lists of selected websites and artistic adaptations of Wilde’s works, a chronology of Wilde’s publications, and a comprehensive secondary bibliography to permit readers to develop both a wide-ranging background and a selective focus of interests.

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Reading Oscar Wilde: An Introduction
Reading Oscar Wilde is a comprehensive interpretive guide designed for students and readers who come to Wilde’s writings for the first time, delivering a fuller understanding of the works and the background from which the canon has emerged. This ready-at-hand compendium details the scholarly perspectives of Wilde’s vast literary output. Meticulously arranged, this accessible volume includes freestanding discussions of individual works, including clarification of Wilde’s pioneering contextual examinations and his innovative and influential stylistic achievements. Readers will find a solid foundation for understanding his works and will benefit from new insights into the impact of his writing on subsequent authors. Additionally, the surveys of the interpretive approaches offered by contemporary literary theories will highlight for readers a range of research possibilities. This book also includes lists of selected websites and artistic adaptations of Wilde’s works, a chronology of Wilde’s publications, and a comprehensive secondary bibliography to permit readers to develop both a wide-ranging background and a selective focus of interests.

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Reading Oscar Wilde: An Introduction

Reading Oscar Wilde: An Introduction

by Michael Patrick Gillespie
Reading Oscar Wilde: An Introduction
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Reading Oscar Wilde: An Introduction

Reading Oscar Wilde: An Introduction

by Michael Patrick Gillespie

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Reading Oscar Wilde is a comprehensive interpretive guide designed for students and readers who come to Wilde’s writings for the first time, delivering a fuller understanding of the works and the background from which the canon has emerged. This ready-at-hand compendium details the scholarly perspectives of Wilde’s vast literary output. Meticulously arranged, this accessible volume includes freestanding discussions of individual works, including clarification of Wilde’s pioneering contextual examinations and his innovative and influential stylistic achievements. Readers will find a solid foundation for understanding his works and will benefit from new insights into the impact of his writing on subsequent authors. Additionally, the surveys of the interpretive approaches offered by contemporary literary theories will highlight for readers a range of research possibilities. This book also includes lists of selected websites and artistic adaptations of Wilde’s works, a chronology of Wilde’s publications, and a comprehensive secondary bibliography to permit readers to develop both a wide-ranging background and a selective focus of interests.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781032662305
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 03/11/2025
Series: Reading Literature Today
Pages: 188
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Michael Patrick Gillespie taught for 29 years at Marquette University as an Assistant, Associate, a Full Professor, and finally as the inaugural Louise Edna Goeden Professor of English. He is currently Professor of English at Florida International University. He has written books on film, literary theory, and the works of James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Kennedy.

Table of Contents

Preparatory to Anything Else: What We Do When We Read

1. Life as a Brand

2. Making Performative Art

3. The Integrity of Wilde’s Short Fiction

4. Fifty Shades of Dorian Gray

5. Establishing a Dramatic Presence: Wilde’s Plays of the Early Nineties

6. Realizing “The Vital Importance of Being Earnest”

7. Aesthetic Occasions: Wilde’s Poetry

8. Blueprint of Creativity: Wilde’s Essays, Letters, and Miscellany

9. Conclusion: “The Only Thing Worse Than Being Talked About Is Not Being Talked About”

A Chronology of Important Dates in Oscar Wilde's Life

Appendix: John Ruskin, Walter Pater, and Art for Art’s Sake

Bibliography

Filmography

Index

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