Oscar Wilde: The Critic as HumanistFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1999 - Počet stran: 197 Through a discussion of critical works, including The Decay of Lying and De Profundis, Bashford demonstrates the theoretical goals Wilde set for himself in his criticism and how he achieved them. |
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Fathoming the Soul in De Profundis | 45 |
Wilde as Rhetor and Rhetorician | 54 |
Oscar Wilde as Humanist | 77 |
Defining Humanism | 79 |
The Rise of Historical Criticism and the Consequences of Genuine Explanation | 87 |
The Critic as Humanist | 104 |
Afterword | 153 |
Notes | 160 |
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action aesthetic appear argument asserts beauty belief capacity claim concepts contemplative creative Critic as Artist critical dialogues critical theory culture Decay of Lying defining definition discourse discussion Erskine essay experience explain expression faculty Gilbert Greek Harold Bloom historical criticism humanism's humanist commonplaces idea imagination imitation individual inspiration instance intellectual interpretive critic judgment kind literary Matthew Arnold means method Michael Field mind mode Monroe Beardsley narrator nature Northrop Frye notion one's Oscar Wilde pair paradox Pater Perelman's persons perspective philosophical Plato position present primary principle Profundis realize realm reversal Richard Ellmann Rise role Rupert Hart-Davis says scientific sense simply Sonnets soul story subjectivism things thinker thought Thucydides tion topoi tradition truth unity University Press version of humanism Victorian Vivian Wilde's critical Wilde's Oxford Wilde's rhetors Wilde's theory Willie Hughes Winfield Parks Writings of Oscar York
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Strana 29 - Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.