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Oscar Wilde
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ISBN: 1642653101 Year: 2019 Publisher: Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press,

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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."--


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Disunified aesthetics
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ISBN: 0773589597 9780773589599 9780773589605 0773589600 9780773541856 Year: 2014 Publisher: Montreal

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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.

The Pinter ethic : the erotic aesthetic
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ISBN: 0203905288 1280407484 0203906527 9780203906521 9780203905289 9780815339090 0815339097 9780815338864 0815338864 0203906217 9780203906217 9786610407484 6610407487 0815313853 9780815313854 1135575983 1135575975 Year: 2000 Publisher: New York : Garland,

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The only comprehensive guide to the plays of one of the world's greatest yet most puzzling contemporary dramatists.

Lautréamont : éthique à Maldoror
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ISBN: 2859392556 275742596X 9782859392550 Year: 1984 Publisher: Lille Presses universitaires de Lille

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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.

The puritan and the cynic : moralists and theorists in French and American letters
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ISBN: 1280523182 0195364732 9780195364736 9780195041804 0195041801 9781280523182 9786610523184 6610523185 0195041801 Year: 1987 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

Prométhée, Faust, Frankenstein : fondements imaginaires de l'éthique
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ISBN: 290860275X 9782908602753 Year: 1996 Volume: *2 Publisher: [Le Plessis-Robinson] Synthelabo [Paris] : Ulysse diff.-Distique

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