Wilde's Intentions: The Artist in His Criticism by Danson, Lawrence

Wilde's Intentions: The Artist in His Criticism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198183754)

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Format: Hardcover
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Wilde's Intentions: The Artist in His Criticism by Danson, Lawrence

Wilde's Intentions: The Artist in His Criticism

$77.00
Wilde's Intentions: The Artist in His Criticism by Danson, Lawrence

Wilde's Intentions: The Artist in His Criticism

$77.00
Format: Hardcover
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What were Wilde's intentions? They had always been suspect, from the time of Poems, when the charge was plagiarism, to his trials, when the charge was sodomy. In Intentions (1891), and in two related essays, "The Portrait of Mr W. H." and "The Soul of Man Under Socialism," Wilde's epigrammatic dazzle and paradoxical subversions both reveal and mask his designs upon fin-de-siécle society. In the first extended study of Wilde's criticism, Lawrence Danson examines these essays/dialogues/fictions and assesses their achievement. He sets Wilde's criticism in context, showing how the son of an Irish patriot sought to create a new ideal of English culture by elevating "lies" above history, leveling the distinction between artist and critic, and ending the sway of "nature"u over liberated human desire.

Author: Lawrence Danson
ISBN-10: 0198183755
ISBN-13: 9780198183754
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Language: English
Published: 03/27/1997
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d

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