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Oscar Wilde and the Plaistow Matricide: Competing Critiques of Influence in the Formation of Late-Victorian Masculinities
No full textThis paper examines the ways in which the concept of ‘pernicious influence’ was mobilized in late-Victorian periodical publications to reinforce a normative conception of masculinity through powerful discourses on the relationship between textual consumption and identity. Discussion of the threat posed by ‘penny dreadfuls’ drew not only on widely held assumptions regarding the criminalizing influence of popular fiction, exemplified by the case of Robert Coombes, but also made connections with the supposedly corrupting effeminacy of the ‘degenerate’ intellectual, with the trials of Oscar Wilde as the main focus. The paper goes on to explore Wilde’s engagement with the concept of influence across a wide range of his writings, in the course of which he developed an alternative critique of all influence as a perversion of self-realization. This relates in some respects to existing strands of critical debate relating to Wilde’s sexuality. However, the current essay seeks to frame Wilde’s contribution in terms of late-Victorian debates on the cultural significance of reading practices and in relation to Wilde’s own critique of influence, by means of which he contested many of the assumptions underpinning bourgeois conceptions of normative masculinity
Art and society: a consideration of the relations between aesthetic theories and social commitment with reference to Katherine Mansfield and Oscar Wilde
No full textPhDThe chief purpose of this project is to discuss Katherine Mansfield's
aesthetic ideas in connection with those of Oscar Wilde and fin de siècle Aestheticism.
The proposed study will also analyse her Modernist technique in Symbolist terms, and
consider her major themes from aesthetic and political points of view.
The primary, underlying concern of this study is to negotiate two, often opposing
critical values: the aesthetic and the political. The artist's negotiation of the conflict
between aesthetics (art) and politics (society) is a controversial 'modern' critical issue: the
issue all serious artists and critics have been facing and consciously dealing with since
the late nineteenth century. Fin de siècle Aestheticism and Symbolism form a dominant
stream of Modernism because of this intensified shared concern over the delicate
relationship between art, life and society.
Wilde's stress on the autonomy of art is related to his notion of an ideal relationship
between art, life and society: he shows a keen awareness that the autonomy of art and
the aesthetic self-realization of the artist could be realized only in a society without any
social, cultural or moral hegemony, that is, in a society without moral, social or political
oppression. The Wildean 'poeticization' of society lies in his politicization of art; and this
aesthetic influences Mansfield's.
French Symbolism suggested to Wilde and Mansfield an aesthetic which enabled
them to realize their Aestheticism. Wildean and Mansfieldian Symbolism attempt to
'shock' the reader: they aim at breaking the reader's reading habit, and his or her
stereotypic point of view and fixed sense of values. Here lie not only the political
potential of Symbolism as a Modernist aesthetic but also the aesthetic and political link
between their Symbolism and avant-garde Modernism
Deux contes
No full textLe prince heureux ; Le rossignol et la roseOscar Wilde ; [trad. par Albert Savine] ; [éd. établie par F.-L. Schmied]Traduit de: The happy prince ; The nightingale and the roseJustification du tirage: - 150 ex. signés et numérotés de 1 à 150. - 12 ex. de collaborateurs numérotés de I à XI
Frank Harris. La vie et les confessions d'Oscar Wilde.
No full textDelatte F. Frank Harris. La vie et les confessions d'Oscar Wilde. . In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 8, fasc. 1, 1929. pp. 220-221
Frank Harris. La vie et les confessions d'Oscar Wilde.
No full textDelatte F. Frank Harris. La vie et les confessions d'Oscar Wilde. . In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 8, fasc. 1, 1929. pp. 220-221
Oscar Wilde: Constructing the Self
No full textThis thesis examines Oscar Wilde\u27s construction of the self. Three major aspects of Wildean literary work serve as handles for this thesis examination. They are the Wildean interpretation of theoria, Wilde\u27s literary technique and philosophical assertion of masks and poses and Wilde\u27s favor of the social dandy.
In addition to these three aspects, this thesis utilizes four of Wilde\u27s works as primary sources. These are The Pictureo f Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Decay of Lying, and The Critic as Artist.
Like most current critiques of Wilde, this thesis relies on many of the reading strategies of postmodern criticism. Additionally, this study takes into account the overall critical history and personal biography of Wilde.
Finally, this thesis asserts that Wilde\u27s constructed self is a self that is multiessenced and, therefore, in direct conflict with the traditional Western notion of the self
"Wilde World. Una tavola rotonda su Oscar Wilde"
No full textQuesto volume miscellaneo di saggi a firma di studiosi italiani e stranieri costituisce un battesimo emblematico per la collana scientifica “InCarnations. Studi e prospettive sull’Ottocento britannico”, di cui Giovannelli è condirettrice. La collana esordisce con un’opera dedicata a Oscar Wilde, icona ‘incarnata’ e globalizzata della fin de siècle. Il nucleo germinale del progetto inerente a “Wilde World. Una tavola rotonda su Oscar Wilde” risale all’ottobre 2019, in occasione di una giornata di studi organizzata dalla Italian Oscar Wilde Society presso l’Università di Bologna. L’idea iniziale si è poi sviluppata grazie a ulteriori collaborazioni a livello nazionale e internazionale. I nove interventi raccolti nell’impianto definitivo del volume (a firma di Gino Scatasta, Michael F. Davis, David Weir, Alice Condé, Michele Stanco, Pierpaolo Martino, Graham Price, Riccardo Cassarino e Maggie Rose, Sara Pini) testimoniano la varietà degli approcci critici e delle chiavi di lettura applicabili al macrotesto wildiano, che ne emerge anatomizzato in senso storico, ma anche sorprendentemente capace di parlare e negoziare con la nostra contemporaneità, dal territorio della psicoanalisi alla filosofia, dal teatro alle arti visive, dalla filmografia alla musica e alle traduzioni. I saggi tracciano un percorso nel quale Wilde si inserisce e, nel contempo, si disancora dalla cornice decadente del “green carnation” per accedere alla dimensione dell’“evergreen”.This collection of essays by Italian and foreign scholars constitutes a symbolic debut for “InCarnations. Studi e prospettive sull’Ottocento britannico”, a volume series co-edited by Giovannelli. This series opens with a book on Oscar Wilde as a globalised and ‘embodied’ icon of the fin de siècle. The project relating to “Wilde World. Una tavola rotonda su Oscar Wilde” dates back to a symposium organised by the Italian Oscar Wilde Society at the University of Bologna in October 2019. It then developed further thanks to collaborations at a national and international level. The nine essays included here (by Gino Scatasta, Michael F. Davis, David Weir, Alice Condé, Michele Stanco, Pierpaolo Martino, Graham Price, Riccardo Cassarino and Maggie Rose, and Sara Pini) testify to the variety of critical approaches and interpretations of Wilde’s production, which is historically contextualised but also investigated in light of contemporary perspectives dealing with psychoanalysis and philosophy, the performing and visual arts, cinema, music, and translations. These essays show how Wilde both inhabits and exceeds the Decadent frame of the “green carnation” to acquire an “evergreen” status
Revisiting activity theory within the Internet of Things
No full textWith the emergence of the Internet of Things, interactions between humans and machines and indeed amongst machines themselves can be better understood using Leontiev's activity theory. This theory has been relevant to Human-Computer Interaction research for some time, but this paper revisits the underlying concepts with a particular emphasis on the Internet of Things. Newer approaches may be more appropriate to represent complex activities within their wider context, as opposed to the traditional (and limited) view of mediated activities at an individual level.<br/
Arthur Herbert Wilde
No full textArthur Herbert Wilde was the sixth president of the University of Arizona. He served from 1911-1914. During his term he had helped bring in more students, there was a total of 195 students when he became president He had established courses in home economics and bacteriology. He had developed the first student body organization on campus, honors awards, and a new men's dorm. Before he resigned, Wilde had hired James F. McKale as the athletic director and coach. He left his position to became dean at Boston University
Boundary element modelling and full scale measurement of the acoustic performance of outdoor noise barriers
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University, 12/11/1999.The performance of various designs of outdoor noise barrier has been investigated using numerical modelling and full scale experiments. The numerical modelling has been performed using a two-dimensional boundary element method. The model has been extended to allow the efficient simulation of barrier arrangements on ground having two distinct impedance values and cross-sections incorporating cuttings. It has been reported previously that the performance of a plane screen can be enhanced by adding a device to the top of the barrier to induce destructive interference. Full scale modelling and boundary element simulations have been performed on one such commercially available device. It has been shown that, taking the height increase into account, the major contribution to the improved performance is the presence of two diffracting edges rather than any interference effects generated. It is known that the performance of a single barrier is degraded following the introduction of a barrier on the opposite side of a source. Boundary element simulations of such parallel arrangements have been performed. Modifications have been proposed to reduce the over-estimation of multiple reflections within the model, together with a method for converting predictions to the equivalent point source values. Sound absorptive, tilted and median barriers have been shown to be effective in reducing the degradation. A multiple-edge barrier configuration is known to offer improved screening performance over a plane screen. Reported in-situ measurements have suggested the behaviour to be influenced by site geometry. Boundary element calculations have been performed to identify a more efficient variant of the device. The results suggest the addition of an inclined base panel to be most effective. The boundary element model has been used to investigate the effect of shape and surface treatment upon railway noise barriers. The model has been adapted to allow the use of dipole sources characteristic of railway noise. The cross-section of the rolling stock has been shown to affect the performance of rigid barriers. If the upper edges are coincident, the results suggest that simple absorptive barriers provide better screening than tilted designs. The addition of multiple edges further enhances performance.EPSRC; Transport Research Laborator
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