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Literary Terms

A Dictionary

By: Karl E. Beckson,Karl Beckson,Arthur Ganz

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A Dictionary

By: Karl E. Beckson,Karl Beckson,Arthur Ganz

Explains and gives examples of over 900 literary terms.

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0374521778

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Literary Terms

A Dictionary

By: Karl E. Beckson,Karl Beckson,Arthur Ganz

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A Dictionary

By: Karl E. Beckson,Karl Beckson,Arthur Ganz

Explains and gives examples of over 900 literary terms.

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Aesthetes and Decadents of the 1890s

An Anthology of British Poetry and Prose

By: Karl Beckson

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Aesthetes and Decadents of the 1890s

An Anthology of British Poetry and Prose

By: Karl Beckson

The Aesthetic and Decadent Movement of the late 19th century spawned the idea of "Art for Art's Sake," challenged aesthetic standards and shocked the bourgeosie. From Walter Pater's study, "The Renaissance to Salome, the truly decadent collaboration between Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley, Karl Beckson has chosen a full spectrum of works that chronicle the British artistic achievement of the 1890s. In this revised edition of a classic anthology, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" has been included in its entirety; the bibliography has been completely updated; Professor Beckson's notes and commentary have been expanded from the first edition published in 1966. The so-called Decadent or Aesthetic period remains one of the most interesting in the history of the arts. The poetry and prose of such writers as Yeats, Wilde, Symons, Johnson, Dowson, Barlas, Pater and others are included in this collection, along with sixteen of Aubrey Beardsley's drawings.

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384

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Chicago Review Press

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0897330447

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9780897330442

Life Without End

A Thought Experiment in Literature from Swift to Houellebecq

By: Karl Siegfried Guthke

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Life Without End

A Thought Experiment in Literature from Swift to Houellebecq

By: Karl Siegfried Guthke

A groundbreaking study examining major literary treatments of the idea of earthly immortality, throwing into relief fascinating instances of human self-awareness over the past three hundred years.

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224

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Boydell & Brewer

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1571139745

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9781571139740

London in the 1890s

A Cultural History

By: Karl E. Beckson

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London in the 1890s

A Cultural History

By: Karl E. Beckson

A cultural history of 1890s explores the movements, debates, thoughts, and behavioral changes that influenced the development of Modernism, discussing the works of Wilde, Shaw, Yeats, Beardsley, Kipling, Webb, and others

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445

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W. W. Norton

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039303397X

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9780393033977

The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

Volume IV: Criticism: Historical Criticism, Intentions, The Soul of Man

By: Josephine M. Guy

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The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

Volume IV: Criticism: Historical Criticism, Intentions, The Soul of Man

By: Josephine M. Guy

Volume IV of the Oxford English Texts Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the first variorum edition of Wilde's major critical writing; it includes the critical essays which were re-published in book-form in his life-time - that is, those anthologised in Intentions and The Soul of Man - as well as his graduate essay usually known by the title The Rise of Historical Criticism, but which this volume titles Historical Criticism. The Introduction gives a detailed account of the composition of each of the essays: it gives a new explanation for the relationship between the 'The Decay of Lying' and 'Pen, Pencil, and Poison' (arguing that they are best understood as companion pieces); it provides the first concrete demonstration that Wilde did, on occasions, knowingly 'copy' his own work; and it reveals that substantial cuts were made to some of Wilde's essays (without his full consent) by the periodical editors with whom he worked. The edition also provides, for the first time, a full collation of the textual variants between the published versions of Wilde's essays (that is, both book and periodical), and all extant manuscripts; in addition it establishes a new, authoritative text for Historical Criticism, based on an examination of the original manuscript, which differs significantly from that printed by Robert Ross in his 1908 Collected Edition (and subsequently reprinted in the Collins Complete Works). The annotation to the edition reveals the full extent of Wilde's 'borrowings' both from his own work, and from other writers; it also reveals that much of Historical Criticism is in fact paraphrasing or translating well-known classical texts, and that the some of denseness of the argument is due to ellipses in Wilde's text that were disguised by earlier editors.

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OUP Oxford

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0198119615

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9780198119616

The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Volume V: Plays I: The Duchess of Padua, Salomé: Drame en un Acte, Salome: Tragedy in One Act

By: Joseph Donohue

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The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Volume V: Plays I: The Duchess of Padua, Salomé: Drame en un Acte, Salome: Tragedy in One Act

By: Joseph Donohue

Volume V of the Oxford English Texts Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, is the first volume of plays, bringing together The Duchess of Padua, privately published in 1883 and left unpublished until now; Wilde's Salomé, written and published in French in 1893; and its first English translation, by Lord Alfred Douglas, which was published in 1894 .

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OUP Oxford

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0198119577

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9780198119579

The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

By: Oscar Wilde

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The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

By: Oscar Wilde

This volume presents for the first time the complete textual history of one of the most famous love letters ever written. Addressed to Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, and composed in Reading Gaol, it was later given the title 'De Profundis' by Wilde's friend and literary executor, RobertRoss. It was Ross's severely abridged and sanitized version, published in 1905 and again 1908, which inaugurated the tradition of seeing De Profundis as the apologia pro sua vita of a broken man. This edition takes account of this complex heritage by arguing that Wilde's prison document may be seennot just as the basis of a letter (a typed copy of which may have been sent to Douglas) but also as an unfinished literary work which he intended for public consumption at some future date. Such a case is made by placing in the public domain, often for the first time, a number of different works,derived from different texts, each of which bears witness to Wilde's multiple intentions for his prison document. These texts comprise: the manuscript held in the British Library; the version of Wilde's letter published by his son, Vyvyan Holland, from a typescript bequeathed to him by Robert Ross;hitherto unpublished witnesses to that typescript; and Ross's editions, collated with each other. The commentary to this edition - again for the first time - sets Wilde's story of his own life in 'De Profundis' against the testimony of other players in his drama, including, most importantly, that ofDouglas. In so doing it exposes the partial nature of Wilde's narrative, as well as the personal obsessions which animated it. The commentary also demonstrates a hitherto unnoticed element of Wilde's work, the extent and nature of its richly layered intertextuality and its similarity, in itscompositional practices, to many of his earlier works.

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Clarendon Press

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0198119623

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9780198119623

I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation

And Other Quotations from Oscar Wilde

By: Oscar Wilde

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I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation

And Other Quotations from Oscar Wilde

By: Oscar Wilde

More than 1,000 quotations from Wilde on subjects from absinthe to Zola as well as selections from personal letters filled with poignant remarks on his life and the human condition.

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Columbia University Press

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0231104561

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9780231104562

The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

By: Oscar Wilde

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The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

By: Oscar Wilde

Here is a collection of this witty and irreverent author's works--all in their most authoritative texts. Includes The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, and other stories and essays.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198187726

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9780198187721

Karl Polanyi

The Hungarian Writings

By: Karl Polanyi

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The Hungarian Writings

By: Karl Polanyi

A collection of Karl Polanyi's Hungarian writings translated in English for the first time"-

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1784994251

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Literary Terms

Literary Terms

Literary Terms

Literary Terms

Aesthetes and Decadents of the 1890s

Aesthetes and Decadents of the 1890s

Life Without End

Life Without End

London in the 1890s

London in the 1890s

The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Volume V: Plays I: The Duchess of Padua, Salomé: Drame en un Acte, Salome: Tragedy in One Act

The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Volume V: Plays I: The Duchess of Padua, Salomé: Drame en un Acte, Salome: Tragedy in One Act

The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation

I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation

The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

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