The modern art of influence and the spectacle of Oscar Wilde

The modern art of influence and the spectacle of Oscar Wilde /

"Salamensky investigates Oscar Wilde, his contemporaries, and the public frenzy over his work and life as illustrating the crucial importance of performance in the construction of the "modern" and our own, postmodern, lives"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Salamensky, S. I. (Shelley I.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Wilde, Oscar, > 1854-1900 > Aesthetics.
Wilde, Oscar, > 1854-1900 > Influence.
Wilde, Oscar, > 1854-1900 > Appreciation.
Wilde, Oscar, > 1854-1900 > Contemporaries.
Wilde, Oscar, > 1854-1900 > Criticism and interpretation.
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Table of Contents:
  • Forword: why Wilde
  • Wilde ways: the modern art of influence and the "Professor of Aesthetics"
  • Wilde women : Salome and the spectacle of the transgendered Jewess hysteric
  • Wilde words: money, morality, metaphysics, and the "Modern" man
  • Wilde worlds: the "Trick of Talk" and the magicking of the material body
  • Afterword: what do we want from Wilde?.

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