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"Oscar Wilde was popular in his own lifetime, especially as an author of comic plays. But he is also now seen as one of the most important figures in the development of modern gay literature and modern gay liberation, not only because of works such as The Picture of Dorian Gray but also because of the notorious trials that sent him to prison (and an early death) for behavior considered unacceptable in his own era. The present volume examines the whole range of Wilde's work, from the light-hearted to the tragically serious, and explores Wilde and his writings in their biographical, historical, cultural, and literary contexts. The chapters here discuss critical views presented by a variety of scholars as well as original archival research by the volume's authors. Scholars have regularly struggled with the significance of his literary production versus Wilde's fascinating biography and role in shaping the cultural history of his time, as well as identities for the modern world. With this in mind, the authors for this volume of Critical Insights balance studies of Wilde's particular texts with his important place in the western civilization of his time and of the century (and more) following."--
English literature --- Social perception in literature. --- Ethics in literature. --- Littérature anglaise --- Morale dans la littérature. --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique. --- Wilde, Oscar, --- 1800-1899
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Aesthetics is a field still rooted in an understanding of a unified process where small numbers of people produce, commodify, and consume objects called "art." Disunified Aesthetics deconstructs the literary object by invoking the critics stance toward the written works with which they engage. Lynette Hunters performative explorations provide a distinctly different way of understanding contemporary creative processes. Disunified Aesthetics takes up twenty-first-century aesthetics through an investigation of recent Canadian writing. The book is both a series of insights into literature and poetics of the last two decades and a story about moving from a traditional view of the relation between the artist, art, and its reception, to a more radically democratic view of aesthetics and ethics. Hunter addresses a range of Canadian womens writing, as well as close studies of the work of Robert Kroetsch, Lee Maracle, Nicole Brossard, Frank Davey, Alice Munro, Daphne Marlatt, and bpNichol. Disunified Aesthetics is a creative, challenging, and original investigation of textuality, performance, and aesthetics by a leading and innovative scholar.
Canadian literature (English) --- Aesthetics in literature. --- Performance in literature. --- Ethics in literature. --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) in literature. --- Littérature canadienne-anglaise --- Esthétique dans la littérature. --- Morale dans la littérature. --- Esthétique de la réception. --- English literature --- Canadian literature --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Histoire et critique --- Théorie, etc.
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The only comprehensive guide to the plays of one of the world's greatest yet most puzzling contemporary dramatists.
Didactic drama, English --- Ethics in literature. --- Love in literature. --- Sex in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Pinter, Harold, --- Bintar, Hārūld, --- Пинтер, Гарольд, --- פינטר, הרולד, --- Pinter, Garolʹd, --- Ethics. --- Aesthetics. --- Ethics in literature --- Love in literature --- Théâtre didactique anglais --- Morale dans la littérature --- Amour dans la littérature --- Sexualité dans la littérature --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique
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Passionné d’éthique et de littérature, Ducasse avait tout du bon élève qui en sait déjà trop pour pouvoir croire longtemps ses maîtres, mais pas encore assez pour ne plus croire les livres. Les maîtres sont des « sceptiques » à la mode du Second Empire, tandis que les livres veulent, disent-ils, lutter contre le Mal. Ils le dépeignent avec ardeur ? Certes, mais c’est par « méthode », pour mieux vanter le Bien. Excellente tactique, pense d’abord Ducasse, qui veut lui aussi contribuer à cette noble croisade où il voit l’avenir : peignons le Mal sous ses couleurs les plus horribles, et les âmes oppressées ne pourront que se jeter dans les bras du Bien. Voilà, au rebours de ce que l’on a longtemps cru, tout le programme des Chants de Maldoror. Mais des doutes naissent,-peu à peu. Quelle est-elle donc cette « morale » dont chacun se réclame et que les Chants veulent servir par leurs propres moyens ? Quels sont ces moyens ? Pourquoi ont-ils échoué, nous laissant confondre leur subtil utilisateur avec ce qu’il vomissait : ces « hurleurs maniaques », ces anges du Mal, ces « farceurs au quarteron » dont il voulait précisément la fin ? Telles sont quelques-unes des questions auxquelles ce livre s’efforce de répondre, en relisant pas à pas les Chants.
Thematology --- French literature --- Lautréamont, de, Isidore-Lucien Ducasse --- Ethics in literature --- Morale dans la littérature --- Lautréamont, --- Ethics --- Didactic poetry, French --- History and criticism --- Lautréamont, --- Lautreamont comte de --- Ethics in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Ethics. --- Morale dans la littérature --- Lautréamont, de [count] --- French didactic poetry --- French poetry --- De Lautréamont, --- Ducasse, Isidore Lucien, --- Lautréamont, Isidore, --- Didactic poetry, French - History and criticism --- Lautréamont, - comte de, - 1846-1870 - Chants de Maldoror --- Maldoror
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This book offers a comparative reading of the ways in which moral issues surface in French and American literature.
French literature --- Ethics in literature. --- Literature and morals. --- Didactic literature --- Aphorisms and apothegms --- American literature --- Comparative literature --- Literature --- Morals and literature --- Ethics --- History and criticism. --- French and American. --- American and French. --- Influence --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Ethics in literature --- Literature and morals --- Aphorismes et apophtegmes --- Littérature didactique --- Morale dans la littérature --- Littérature et morale --- Littérature comparée --- History and criticism --- American and French --- French and American --- Histoire et critique --- Américaine et française --- Française et américaine
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Frankenstein (Fictitious character) in literature --- Prometheus (Greek deity) --- Ethics --- Bioethics --- Ethics in literature --- Bioethics in literature --- Frankenstein (Personnage fictif) dans la littérature --- Prométhée (Mythologie grecque) --- Morale --- Bioéthique --- Morale dans la littérature --- Bioéthique dans la littérature --- Faust (Legendary character) --- Ethics. --- Frankenstein (Fictitious character) --- Frankenstein's monster (Fictitious character) --- Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character) --- Prometheus (Greek deity). --- Frankenstein's monster (Fictitious character). --- Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character). --- Frankenstein (Personnage fictif) dans la littérature --- Prométhée (Mythologie grecque) --- Bioéthique --- Morale dans la littérature --- Bioéthique dans la littérature --- Faust --- Bioethics. --- Ethics in literature. --- Bioethics in literature. --- Frankenstein, Victor --- Prometheus --- in literature. --- Mythology, Greek --- Characters and characteristics in literature --- Frankenstein films --- CDL --- 17 --- Monster films --- Character sketches --- Characterization (Literature) --- Literary characters --- Literary portraits --- Portraits, Literary --- Greek mythology --- Biology --- Biomedical ethics --- Life sciences --- Life sciences ethics --- Science --- History and criticism --- Moral and ethical aspects
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