当代西方的王尔德研究

A Survey of the Contemporary Western Studies of Oscar Wilde

英国作家王尔德是西方评论界长期谈论的话题之一。在 2 0世纪 50年代 ,王尔德研究基本上承袭了早期研究的风格 ,注重王尔德的个人生活和人格 ,以及使他早殒的同性恋纠纷、诉讼、审判等佚事。 6 0年代后 ,注重文本的形式分析等因素开始渗入王尔德研究 ;而 80年代迄今 ,王尔德研究呈现出了一种文化研究形态和日益多元化的趋向。

Oscar Wilde has been a frequent topic in the Western critical world. In the 1950s,studies of him basically followed the way of earlier research by concentrating upon his personal life, his style and such anecdotes as his homosexual disputes, litigations and legal procedures that led to his early death. After the 1960s,the research is more and more focused on the form of his text . From the 1980s up to the present, the study has been demonstrating a cultural and increasingly multi-dimensional tendency.