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the artist in his criticism

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the artist in his criticism

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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), the book on which his claim as a theoretical critic chiefly lies, 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-siecle society.

In the first extended study of Wilde's criticism, Lawrence Danson examines these essays/dialogues/fictions (unsettling the categories was one of their intentions) and assesses their achievement. Danson sets Wilde's criticism in context. He shows how the son of an Irish patriot sought to create a new ideal of English culture by elevating 'lies' above history, levelling the distinction between artist and critic, and ending the sway of 'nature' over liberated human desire.

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English
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198

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Wilde's Intentions: The Artist in his Criticism
December 17, 1998, Oxford University Press, USA
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Wilde's intentions: the artist in his criticism
1997, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-190) and index.

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Oxford, New York

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Dewey Decimal Class
828/.809
Library of Congress
PR5824 .D36 1997, PR5824.D36 1997, PR5824 .D36 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 198 p. ;
Number of pages
198

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Open Library
OL991884M
Internet Archive
wildesintentions0000dans
ISBN 10
0198183755
LCCN
96030317
OCLC/WorldCat
35025917
Library Thing
2557558
Goodreads
1054761

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