Heather Marcovitch

Art of the Pose (eBook, PDF)

Oscar Wilde's Performance Theory

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783035101102
• Artikelnr.: 52963794

Autorenporträt

Heather Marcovitch is a professor of English at Red Deer College in Alberta, Canada. She has published on late-Victorian literature, modernist literature and television studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Oscar Wilde and Performance Theory - Foundations and Experiments: Oscar Wilde at Oxford - Celebrity, Caricatures and Public Performances in the 1880s - Wilde's Performance Theory and the Critical Essays - Decadent Anxiety and Negative Capabilities: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Salome - The Dialectic of Persona and Stereotype in the Society Comedies - Performance as Redemption in De Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Gaol.