Buch, Englisch, Band 53, 230 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 567 g
The Critic as Creator
Buch, Englisch, Band 53, 230 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 567 g
Reihe: Literary Criticism in Perspective
ISBN: 978-1-57113-042-6
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
An examination of the most significant literary criticism on Wilde at the turn of the century.
In 1891, Oscar Wilde defined 'the highest criticism' as 'the record of one's own soul, and insisted that only by 'intensifying his own personality' could the critic interpret the personality and work of others. This book exploreswhat Wilde meant by that statement, arguing that it provides the best standard for judging literary criticism about Wilde a century after his death. Melissa Knox examines a range of Wilde criticism in English -- including the work of Lawrence Danson, Michael Patrick Gillespie, Ed Cohen, and Julia Prewitt Brown. Applying Wilde's standards to his critics, Knox discovers that the best of them take to heart Wilde's idea of the aim of criticism -- 'to see theobject as in itself it really is not.' By this, Wilde appreciates Walter Pater's profound observation that everyone sees through a 'thick wall of personality' and that, therefore, objectivity as conceived by Matthew Arnold does not exist. Admiring Pater, Wilde became a prophet for Freud, his exact contemporary. Their intellectual sympathies, made obvious in Knox's exegesis, help to make the case for Wilde as a modern, not a Victorian.
Melissa Knox's book Oscar Wilde: A Long and Lovely Suicide was published in 1994. She teaches at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
Introduction
Geistesgeschichte
New Historicism
Gay, Queer, and Gender Criticism
Reader Response Criticism
Irish Ethnic Studies and Cultural Criticism
Biographic Studies
Summary and Future Trends
Works Cited
Index
