| Cosmopolitan Criticism: Oscar Wilde's Philosophy of Art Revised Edition Contributor(s): Brown, J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 081391888X ISBN-13: 9780813918884 Publisher: University of Virginia Press OUR PRICE: $22.28 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 828.809 |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 6.1" W x 8.98" (0.56 lbs) 137 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Ethnic Orientation - Irish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: CALLING OSCAR WILDE'S philosophy of art his "most elusive legacy," Brown attempts to define Wilde's conception of what art is and what it is not, of what the experience of art means in the modern world, and of the contradictory relations between the work of art and the sphere of everyday ethics. She traces the experimental character of Wilde's thought from its resonance in his own life through its development within the tradition of aesthetic philosophy, ultimately focusing on his sense of the equivocal and diminishing presence of art in the postindustrial world. |