<p>This new study of the major prose and plays of Oscar Wilde argues that his dominant aesthetic category is not art but style. It is this major emphasis on style and attitude which helps mark Wilde so graphically as our contemporary. Beginning with a survey of current Wilde criticism, the book demonstrates the way his own critical essays anticipate much contemporary cultural theory and inform his own practice as a writer.</p>

Wilde Style (Studies In Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Literature Series)

Literature & Fiction

Sammells, Neil

British & Irish

Routledge

This text examines the major prose and plays of Oscar Wilde, providing detailed discussions of specific texts within their wider literary context. The author also explores Wilde's influence on contemporary popular culture.

Wilde Style: The Plays and Prose of Oscar Wilde (Studies in Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-Century Literature)

Dramas & Plays

Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

<p>These sixteen essays on modern Irish prose, poems and plays&nbsp; have been developed from papers delivered at the conference of the International Association for the Study of&nbsp; Irish Literatures, held at Bath Spa University College. Beyond Borders offers an international perspective by bringing together&nbsp; voices from different national cultures and scholarly contexts. Each essay explores borders both literal and metaphorical in Irish writing, showing, for instance, how Irish authors look beyond national borders for influences and analogues, and how much Irish writing is corrosive and transformative of partition in its manifold forms. Among the writers discussed are W.B Yeats, James Joyce, Patrick Pearse, John Banville, Bernard Mac Laverty, Dermot Healy, Patrick McCabe, Matthew Sweeny, Paul Muldoon, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Eavan Boland, Chris Lee, Sebastian Barry, Martin McDonagh.</p>

Beyond Borders: IASIL Essays On Modern Irish Writing

Academica Press

Writing and America (Crosscurrents)

Writing and America surveys the writing genres that have contributed to the American notions of America . Essays from scholars from both side of the Atlantic chart the range of responses to American nationhood from colonial times to the present and include dissenting responses from communities such as native American, black and feminist writers. Case studies from writers such as James Fenimore Cooper and William Carlos Williams provide a framework for discussions on topics such as colonial notions of America as the promised land, the discourses of nationhood in the republic, the sense of nationhood in American historiography, and the formation of the American Canon. Draws upon extracts from the American Bills of Rights and the Constitution as examples of different types of writing.

Cologne-Brookes, Gavin

Timms, David

History & Criticism

Wilde Style: The Plays and Prose of Oscar Wilde (Studies In Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Literature Series)

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