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The dandy in earnest: Oscar wilde s spiritual aestheticism
Full text linkIn this thesis, I employ Bruce Bashford�s model of "Wildean dialectic" as a methodology to explore correspondences between Wilde�s critical writings, The Picture of Dorian Gray, �The Portrait of Mr. W.H.,� and some of Wilde�s fairy tales. In doing so, I demonstrate that far from being a mere intellectual or spiritual dalliance, whatever Wilde�s personal devotion may have been, his perennial interest in Catholicism had wide-ranging implications for his developing aesthetic philosophy and his writin. Wilde�'s relationship to Catholicism has commonly been viewed as a question of religious commitment and many scholars have sought to verify his deathbed conversion as though this could explicate the nature of his almost lifelong engagement with Catholicism and Catholic theology. In my analysis of Wilde�s writing I circumvent biographical study as much as possible, showing via close readings of the selected texts how Wilde�s aesthetic philosophy appears to have evolved largely through dialectical interactions with Catholic theology. In particular, I find that Wilde�s references to Catholic theology and his uses of Catholic symbol and ritual within the fairy tales enable him to develop a system of aesthetic education based in literary space and operating through the subjective synthesis of deliberately constructed dialectic spaces. Specifically, I argue that through his uses of Catholic symbol, Wilde is able to focus the subjective in ways hypothetically superior to the theorized House Beautiful, providing a possible resolution to many of the problems of that model of aesthetic education.Includes bibliographical references
OSCAR WILDE´S FEMININE WORLD
No full text[ES]El ensayo trata de hacer un recorrido por el mundo femenino en la obra dramática y en la novela de Oscar Wilde. Se analizarán los distintos personajes femenisnos así como los fundamentos teóricos sobre la mujer, expuestos en su mayor parte por el personaje del dandy, denominador común de la obra del escritor irlandés. Se llevará a cabo un exhaustivo análisis comparativo entre la mayor parte de la producción de Wilde para llegar a la conclusión de que el escritor no se ciñe a un único patrón en cuanto a su visión del mundo femenino. De este modo, por un lado Wilde se adhiere a la moral Vitoriana más conservadora y patriarcal pero por otro lado son múltiples los guiños hacia una actitud feminista más abierta y acorde con nuevas corrientes.[EN]My paper tries to be an approach to the femine world in Oscar Wilde´s novel and theatrical production. Feminie figures will be deeply analyzed and studied as well as all the theoretical conceptions about women in general. It will be the character of the dandy the one who most of the time is going to voice the femenine ideas and assumptions. As a consequence, a comparison will be established between the different woks to reach the conclusion that the author presents a duality in his exposition of women. On the one hand, he sticks to old Vistorian customs and presents a mysoginist view but on the other hand there are glympses which show a feminist and progressist personality
OSCAR WILDE´S FEMININE WORLD
No full text[ES]El ensayo trata de hacer un recorrido por el mundo femenino en la obra dramática y en la novela de Oscar Wilde. Se analizarán los distintos personajes femenisnos así como los fundamentos teóricos sobre la mujer, expuestos en su mayor parte por el personaje del dandy, denominador común de la obra del escritor irlandés. Se llevará a cabo un exhaustivo análisis comparativo entre la mayor parte de la producción de Wilde para llegar a la conclusión de que el escritor no se ciñe a un único patrón en cuanto a su visión del mundo femenino. De este modo, por un lado Wilde se adhiere a la moral Vitoriana más conservadora y patriarcal pero por otro lado son múltiples los guiños hacia una actitud feminista más abierta y acorde con nuevas corrientes.[EN]My paper tries to be an approach to the femine world in Oscar Wilde´s novel and theatrical production. Feminie figures will be deeply analyzed and studied as well as all the theoretical conceptions about women in general. It will be the character of the dandy the one who most of the time is going to voice the femenine ideas and assumptions. As a consequence, a comparison will be established between the different woks to reach the conclusion that the author presents a duality in his exposition of women. On the one hand, he sticks to old Vistorian customs and presents a mysoginist view but on the other hand there are glympses which show a feminist and progressist personality
Peculiarities of Wilde`s poem “Endymion (For Music)” in the context of Aestheticism and difficulties of translation into Ukrainian.
Full text linkPeculiarities of Wilde`s poem “Endymion (For Music)” in the context of Aestheticism
and difficulties of translation are investigated. Transforming the character's image of the wellknown
mythological plot about Endymion, rethinking such “eternal values” as Love and Beauty
and creating his famous paradoxes the writer thereby expresses a protest against the Victorian
morality. A decorative style, a semantic color function, synesthesia are researched as features of
Aestheticism in the poem. The hypothesis about the impact of literary model of Wilde`s
Endymion on the writer`s fate is of particular interest. This article is believed to be the first step
to investigate an artistic originality of Wilde`s poem “Endymion (For Music)” and difficulties of
translation into Ukraimian and opens the prospects for further consideration of Wilde`s literary
heritage
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
AN ANALYSIS OF WOMAN\'S POSITION IN VICTORIAN UPPER CLASS SOCIETY AS REFLECTED IN OSCAR WILDE\'S AN IDEAL HUSBAND
No full textAN ANALYSIS OF WOMAN\'S POSITION IN VICTORIAN UPPER CLASS SOCIETY AS REFLECTED IN OSCAR WILDE\'S AN IDEAL HUSBAND
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
A STUDY OF OSCAR WILDE\'S \"LADY WINDERMERE\'S FAN\" AS SATIRE OF VICTORIAN LIFE USING STRUCTURALISM THEORY
No full textA STUDY OF OSCAR WILDE\'S \"LADY WINDERMERE\'S FAN\" AS SATIRE OF VICTORIAN LIFE USING STRUCTURALISM THEORY - satire, Victorian, Victorian values, codes, Structuralis
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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