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Cargando... Oscar Wilde: A Long and Lovely Suicidepor Melissa Knox
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"I was a problem for which there was no solution."--Oscar Wilde, 1897 During his lifetime Oscar Wilde was praised as a brilliant playwright, novelist, and conversationalist and stigmatized as a dangerous seducer of youth. Ironically, he is perhaps best remembered now for the bravery he exhibited in 1895 during his trial in England for homosexual offenses. In the first full-length psychoanalytic biography of Wilde, Melissa Knox explores the link between little-known childhood events and figures in his life and his psychological development to explain both Wilde's creativity and his self-destructive heroism. Drawing on new information as well as on recent biographies and studies, Knox sketches the important characters in Wilde's formative years: an adoring and demanding mother, a father whose scandalous life degraded the family, and a beloved sister who died when Oscar was eleven. She describes Wilde's first daring efforts as a young man to challenge British mores; his lifelong battle with his fears of the syphilis he reportedly contracted at Oxford; his marriage and two children; his tempestuous and flamboyant love affair with Lord Alfred Douglas, whose father, the marquess of Queensberry, accused Wilde of homosexual practices; Wilde's libel suit against the marquess, subsequent trial, and two-year imprisonment; and his last years in exile, disgrace, and ill health. Uncovering the unconscious motivations beneath Wilde's surface bravado, Knox is able to explain his often puzzling actions. She also offers new interpretations of some of his works, from Salome, which she calls Wilde's most autobiographical work, to The Importance of Being Earnest, in which she sees Wilde artistically embracing his inability to resolve conflicts, to De Profundis, his attempt to salvage himself as a man and an artist. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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"An original and important book with highly convincing psychoanalytic interpretations of Wilde and his work," says Peter Gay in the same place.
The full colour front cover illustration shows a watercolour by Max Beerbohm, "The Name of Dante Gabriel Rossetti is Heard for the Frist Time in the Western States of America. Time: 1882. Lecturer: Mr. Oscar Wilde." The painting shows a longhaired Wilde holding a lily in his left hand, while gesticulating with his right, in front of an audience of attentive bearded American men, while a scowling Abraham Lincoln is shown in a flag-draped framed picture in the background.
Wilde came to lecture in a lucrative speaking tour of Canada and the United States of America in the late 19th century as an apostle of Aestheticism and the so-called 'House Beautiful' movement, of which he was the prime proponent.
The paperback comes wtih a twelve page section of black and white photos, including an opening photo of the Anglo-Irish writer as a child of two in feminine-looking dress, and a facsimile of a letter Wilde wrote from Reading Gaol as he was about to be released.
Dedicated to Oscar Sternbach, and published with assistance from the foundation established in memory of Philip Hamilton McMillan of the class of 1894, Yale College, Melissa Knox's book was designed by Nancy Ovedovitz, typeset by the Composing Room of Michigan, printed by Vail-Ballou Press, Binghamton, New York in 1994, includes Acknowledgments, Introduction, Chronology, five Chapters of text, Notes, selected bibliograhical references and Index, and was published by Yale University Press of New Haven. She is assistant professor of English at St. Peter's College, New Jersey.