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Oscar Wilde: The Works of a Conformist Rebel
Contributor(s): Kohl, Norbert (Author), Kohl (Author), Wilson, David Henry (Translator)
ISBN: 0521176530     ISBN-13: 9780521176538
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE:   $47.49  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: March 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: B
Series: European Studies in English Literature
Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9" (1.44 lbs) 450 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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Publisher Description:
Originally published in English in 1989, from a 1980 German edition, this book provides a comprehensive study of Oscar Wilde's work. It aims to gain fresh insight into his literary and critical oeuvre by fully analysing each of his works on the basis of a textually oriented interpretation, taking equal account of the biographical and intellectual contexts. Professor Kohl's starting-point is the thesis that Wilde's identity - both personal and artistic - can only be adequately described in terms of a conflict between two opposing forces: individualism and convention. This conflict colours not only Wilde's use of Romantic and Victorian images and motifs, but also his modern portrayal of the individual's alienation from society, the loss of transcendent values, the sovereignty of subjectivity and autonomous art, and also his formal experiments with language. This is a penetrating and highly readable account of Wilde as a 'conformist rebel'.