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The Art of the Pose

Oscar Wilde's Performance Theory

By: Heather Marcovitch

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The Art of the Pose

Oscar Wilde's Performance Theory

By: Heather Marcovitch

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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Peter Lang

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3034304390

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Know it All, Find it Fast for Academic Libraries

By: Heather Dawson

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Know it All, Find it Fast for Academic Libraries

By: Heather Dawson

A comprehensive and easy-to-use version of the best-selling Know it All, Find It Fast developed specifically for information professionals working in academic libraries, this will help you to tackle the questions most commonly asked by students, academics and researchers. A broad cross-disciplinary A-Z of themes including topics such as literature searching, plagiarism and using online resources are covered helping you to address anquery confidently and quickly. Each topic is split into three sections to guide your response: typical questions listing the common enquiries you'll encounter points to consider exploring the issues and challenges that might arise where to look listing annotated UK and international resources in print and online including key organisations, scholarly bodies, digital libraries, statistical data and journal article indexes. Readership: This will prove an indispensable day-to-day guide for anyone working with students, academics and researchers in an academic library.

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Facet Publishing

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1856047598

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9781856047593

The Art of the Pose

Oscar Wilde's Performance Theory

By: Heather Marcovitch

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Oscar Wilde's Performance Theory

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Decadences - Morality and Aesthetics in British Literature

Second, Revised and Expanded Edition

By: Paul Fox

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Decadences - Morality and Aesthetics in British Literature

Second, Revised and Expanded Edition

By: Paul Fox

This revised and expanded volume examines the intersections of aesthetics and morality and asks what Decadence means to art and society at various moments in British literature. As time passes, the definition of what it takes to be D/decadent changes. The decline from a higher standard, social malaise, aesthetic ennui – all these ideas presume certain facts about the past, the present, and the linear nature of time itself. To reject the past as a given, and to relish the subtleties of present nuance, is the beginning of Decadence. The conflict underlying the contributions to this collection is that of society's moral contempt vis-a-vis the focus on the fleeting present on part of the purportedly decadent artists; who in turn thought the truly decadent to be the stranglehold society maintained on individual interpretation and the interpretation of oneself.

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ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press

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3838266234

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9783838266237

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The Art of the Pose

The Art of the Pose

Know it All, Find it Fast for Academic Libraries

Know it All, Find it Fast for Academic Libraries

The Art of the Pose

The Art of the Pose

Decadences - Morality and Aesthetics in British Literature

Decadences - Morality and Aesthetics in British Literature

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