Oscar Wilde,the renowned British writer,was deeply influenced by Eastern culture,particularly by Chuang Tsu’s“Thought of Doing Nothing”,a Taoist concept of human conduct.Wilde not only embraced this philosophy,but ...Oscar Wilde,the renowned British writer,was deeply influenced by Eastern culture,particularly by Chuang Tsu’s“Thought of Doing Nothing”,a Taoist concept of human conduct.Wilde not only embraced this philosophy,but also incorporated it into his literary creations and art criticism,enhancing the steadfastness of his own value judgments.展开更多
I.To the writer Oscar Wilde(1854——1900),born Dublin,Ireland,had ever beeneducated for three years in classics at Trinity Gollege,Dubiln,wherehe began to attract public attention through the eccentricity of hiswritin...I.To the writer Oscar Wilde(1854——1900),born Dublin,Ireland,had ever beeneducated for three years in classics at Trinity Gollege,Dubiln,wherehe began to attract public attention through the eccentricity of hiswriting and his life style. He entered Magdalen College,Oxford in 1874.There he attendedRuskin’s lectures and,while differing radically on the question of thefunction of art in society,he caught from the master a sympathywith the poor and the outcast.But a stronger influece was from that展开更多
Oscar Wilde was one of the most radical aesthetes who demonstrated "art for art's sake" in the late Victorian Age.His brilliant comedies,for the witty paradoxes and epigrams in the dialogues and the clev...Oscar Wilde was one of the most radical aesthetes who demonstrated "art for art's sake" in the late Victorian Age.His brilliant comedies,for the witty paradoxes and epigrams in the dialogues and the cleverly constructed plots,have been acknowledged his greatest contribution to English literature,and The Importance of Being Ernest is his masterpiece in drama.In this essay,I focus on the girls of this drama,Cecily and Gwendolen.They are like twins;both of them are intelligent,romantic and passionate.They are very fantastic and insist on marrying a name,but they are not really like the serious people,they are free minded and to some extent,rebellious or out of social custom.From analyzing the two girls,I try to comprehend new women in Victorian Age and Wilde's aesthetic ideas.展开更多
As the exponent of the aesthetic movement, Oscar Wilde has paidalmost excessive attention to the aestheticization of indoor spaces. For him, thehumanly-decorated house offers a sense of order and reason, which has, to...As the exponent of the aesthetic movement, Oscar Wilde has paidalmost excessive attention to the aestheticization of indoor spaces. For him, thehumanly-decorated house offers a sense of order and reason, which has, to a largeextent, assisted the formation of man’s ego and identity, while the outside world,filled with horror, confusion and anxiety, is always associated with the loss ofsubjectivity and individuality. His topophilia is well manifested in some of his morerenowned works, while its fullest expression can no doubt be found in The Decay ofLying, where he would complain in Vivian’s voice how “one becomes abstract andimpersonal” out of doors. In his one-act tragedy Salomé, however, the event whichwas traditionally believed to take place within Herod’s palace was deliberately setoutside the doors. To a certain degree, this arrangement has set the tone for the wholetragedy. Through the employment of the outdoor spaces and the deliberate confusionof the Inside with the Outside, Oscar Wilde has successfully created an atmosphere ofmadness, absurdity and horror that has haunted Salomé from the very beginning: theoutdoor spaces, in facilitating the identification of Salome with the image of Maenad,give the play a touch of madness; Salome’s deliberate attempts at confusing the Insidewith the Outside, principally motivated by the male gaze that permeates the indoorspaces and costs Salome her subjectivity, was plagued with futility and fruitlessness,from whence came the horror of homelessness that has consummated her tragedy.展开更多
In contrast with the large number of theatrical performances and filmic versions for television, both British and American, based on the play The Importance of Being Earnest （1975） by Oscar Wilde, there have only be...In contrast with the large number of theatrical performances and filmic versions for television, both British and American, based on the play The Importance of Being Earnest （1975） by Oscar Wilde, there have only been, so far, three films made for the cinema. Although one of them was made in the United States by the American director Kurt Baker in 1992, this paper will address only the two English versions, chronologically separated by a 50-year time span. It will focus on the cinematic adaptations made by English directors Anthony Asquith and Oliver Parker, the former in 1952 and the latter in 2002. Based on the same play, this comparative approach may throw some light on the evolution of cinematographic conditions and techniques as well as relate them to the expectations of audiences in the mid 20th century and at the beginning of the 21st century.展开更多
It is generally acknowledged that there were three immortal monuments inthehistory of English comedies from the Elizabethan age to Victorian times.Thefirst monument was represented by Willram Shakespeare,whose plays f...It is generally acknowledged that there were three immortal monuments inthehistory of English comedies from the Elizabethan age to Victorian times.Thefirst monument was represented by Willram Shakespeare,whose plays formed thegreatest glory of the English Renaissance and have never been matched by anyof his successors;the second monument was marked by Richard Brinsley Sheri-展开更多
The Decay of Lying,one of Wilde’s famous critic dialogues,is a demonstration of his aesthetic opinions,such as Art is telling lies,Life imitates art etc,which gives full expression of his pursue of art’s purity and ...The Decay of Lying,one of Wilde’s famous critic dialogues,is a demonstration of his aesthetic opinions,such as Art is telling lies,Life imitates art etc,which gives full expression of his pursue of art’s purity and independence.Wilde absolutely takes the side of art and is against the forced interference of art as the subject by politics,utilitarianism,morality and ethics,against the erosion of the artistic realm of beauty by over-realness,against taking the form of art as the accessory to certain content or subject.However,Wilde totally isolates art from reality by putting them in the position of dual antithesis,and this is the root of the internal contradictions in his Aestheticism.This essay aims to discuss the contradictions from four aspects:contradiction between art and real life,art and morality,art and truth and then contradiction between art’s form and content,so as to get a better understanding and correct evaluation of Wilde and his aestheticism.展开更多
(…continued)(the warder)who keeps shut up in prison and despair as he followeverywhere,thus making it impossidle to escape. For they starve the little frightened child Till it weeps bothnight and day: And they scourg...(…continued)(the warder)who keeps shut up in prison and despair as he followeverywhere,thus making it impossidle to escape. For they starve the little frightened child Till it weeps bothnight and day: And they scourge the weak,and flog the fool, And gibe the old and grey, And some grow mad,and all grow bad, And none a word may say.展开更多
It has been a almost a century since Oscar Wilde’s comedies appeared on theEnglish stage and during this period they have met with both compliments andcensures.In the first years when his comedies monopol1zed London ...It has been a almost a century since Oscar Wilde’s comedies appeared on theEnglish stage and during this period they have met with both compliments andcensures.In the first years when his comedies monopol1zed London theatres, Wildewas regarded as great as William Shakespeare.But after his arrest on April 6,1895,his reputation suffered a disastrous decline.Since then,his plays have展开更多
According to Arthur Granz,a literary critic,“Oscar Wilde’s societycomedies have foolish plots and brilliant dialogue.”We do not agree withhis unfair comment against the merits of Wilde’s original use of convention...According to Arthur Granz,a literary critic,“Oscar Wilde’s societycomedies have foolish plots and brilliant dialogue.”We do not agree withhis unfair comment against the merits of Wilde’s original use of conventionalplots as discussed in my previous thesis.However,we do agree with his impar-tial judgement about Wilde’s brilliant dialogue,When Wilde’s comedies展开更多
Oscar Wilde is not only a literary artist but also a literary critic in the Victorian age.As a critic,he carried through his aesthetic ideology of the critic as artist that he treated the critic activity as art creati...Oscar Wilde is not only a literary artist but also a literary critic in the Victorian age.As a critic,he carried through his aesthetic ideology of the critic as artist that he treated the critic activity as art creation.The Portrait of Mr.W.H.is one of Wilde’s critic work exclusively on Shakespeare’s sonnets.It is a piece of critic work as well as a piece of creative art in the form of novella,which well demonstrated Wilde’s critical ideology of the critic as artist.This present paper will try to analyze Wilde’s Shakespearean critic from his ideology on critic and art by taking the case of The Portrait of Mr.W.H.展开更多
As two literary giants in English literary history,Oscar Wilde is so fascinated in Shakespeare as we can see not only their literary relationship,but also Shakespearean elements pervades in Oscar Wilde’s critical wor...As two literary giants in English literary history,Oscar Wilde is so fascinated in Shakespeare as we can see not only their literary relationship,but also Shakespearean elements pervades in Oscar Wilde’s critical works.Shakespearean plays,characters,and even sentences were used either as a kind of tool or as a target for Wilde’s aesthetic ideology concerning the relationship on art and criticism,art and life,as well as art and morality.By sorting out the Shakespearean elements in Wilde’s aesthetic ideology and analyzing its causes,we may further acquire the close relationship between Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde’s aesthetic thought.展开更多
Based on a theoretical framework adapted from the theories of Itamar Even-Zohar,this paper puts the translation of Oscar Wilde’s works into the dynamic historical context of the Chinese cultural poly-system and attem...Based on a theoretical framework adapted from the theories of Itamar Even-Zohar,this paper puts the translation of Oscar Wilde’s works into the dynamic historical context of the Chinese cultural poly-system and attempts to explore which factors prompted Oscar Wilde’s works to be first introduced and translated into China.展开更多
The picture of Dorian Gray is the classic work of Oscar Wilde, the representative personage of Aestheticism. Since the novel was published in 1891, scholars have been studying it from various perspectives. Wilde expre...The picture of Dorian Gray is the classic work of Oscar Wilde, the representative personage of Aestheticism. Since the novel was published in 1891, scholars have been studying it from various perspectives. Wilde expressed plentiful epigrams about love by conversations in the novel, and he once compared himself with characters in it, which provides possibility and clues for probing into his view of love through the novel. Starting from the description of women characters, Dorian's relationship with Basil and Henry, and some stories of marriage in the novel, the paper analyzes Wilde's aesthetic and pessimistic view of love and his advocacy for Greek love based on the British society then and Wilde's own experiences.展开更多
A similar tragedy of lethal obsession, wanton murder, and perverse necrophilia, Faulkner's short story A Rose for Emily remarkably parallels Wilde's play Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act. In the bloody crime ...A similar tragedy of lethal obsession, wanton murder, and perverse necrophilia, Faulkner's short story A Rose for Emily remarkably parallels Wilde's play Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act. In the bloody crime of Wilde's Princess Salomé, Faulkner sees the archetype of a compelling and terrifying female nature, thereby creating the shocking perversity of his Lady Emily.Faulkner's short story, with Lady Emily an epitome of apocalyptic depravity like Princess Salomé, marks the end of an era in the history of the American South.展开更多
Oscar Wilde is mainly famous for being the representative figure of Aesthetic Movement and the steadfast advocate of"art for art's sake". Although being influenced by the traditional dichotomy of women, ...Oscar Wilde is mainly famous for being the representative figure of Aesthetic Movement and the steadfast advocate of"art for art's sake". Although being influenced by the traditional dichotomy of women, Wilde does try to add some personal elements during this process. In one of his social comedies, An Ideal Husband, this wildean characteristic is more obvious. This essay attempts to reveal those hidden images which are employed by Wilde to represent his female characters and tries to show the Wilde's improvement of the traditional dichotomy.展开更多
Oscar Fingal O ‘Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 – 1900) is an Irish playwright, poet and author of numerousplays and one novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.Known for his biting wit,he became one of the most successfulplay...Oscar Fingal O ‘Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 – 1900) is an Irish playwright, poet and author of numerousplays and one novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.Known for his biting wit,he became one of the most successfulplaywrights of the late Victorian era in London,and one of the greatest celebrities of his day.As a spokesmanfor aestheticism,he believes that beauty is the essence of art and life should imitate art.Salome is one of Wilde’s important plays,in which he fully practices his idea of aestheticism.Therefore,aestheticism is the key tounderstanding this one-act play.This thesis is made up of three parts:the first part briefly introduces theaesthetic movement; the second part focuses on Oscar Wilde and his aesthetic beliefs; the last part which isalso the most important one discusses the play Salome and its aesthetic values.展开更多
文摘Oscar Wilde,the renowned British writer,was deeply influenced by Eastern culture,particularly by Chuang Tsu’s“Thought of Doing Nothing”,a Taoist concept of human conduct.Wilde not only embraced this philosophy,but also incorporated it into his literary creations and art criticism,enhancing the steadfastness of his own value judgments.
文摘I.To the writer Oscar Wilde(1854——1900),born Dublin,Ireland,had ever beeneducated for three years in classics at Trinity Gollege,Dubiln,wherehe began to attract public attention through the eccentricity of hiswriting and his life style. He entered Magdalen College,Oxford in 1874.There he attendedRuskin’s lectures and,while differing radically on the question of thefunction of art in society,he caught from the master a sympathywith the poor and the outcast.But a stronger influece was from that
文摘Oscar Wilde was one of the most radical aesthetes who demonstrated "art for art's sake" in the late Victorian Age.His brilliant comedies,for the witty paradoxes and epigrams in the dialogues and the cleverly constructed plots,have been acknowledged his greatest contribution to English literature,and The Importance of Being Ernest is his masterpiece in drama.In this essay,I focus on the girls of this drama,Cecily and Gwendolen.They are like twins;both of them are intelligent,romantic and passionate.They are very fantastic and insist on marrying a name,but they are not really like the serious people,they are free minded and to some extent,rebellious or out of social custom.From analyzing the two girls,I try to comprehend new women in Victorian Age and Wilde's aesthetic ideas.
文摘As the exponent of the aesthetic movement, Oscar Wilde has paidalmost excessive attention to the aestheticization of indoor spaces. For him, thehumanly-decorated house offers a sense of order and reason, which has, to a largeextent, assisted the formation of man’s ego and identity, while the outside world,filled with horror, confusion and anxiety, is always associated with the loss ofsubjectivity and individuality. His topophilia is well manifested in some of his morerenowned works, while its fullest expression can no doubt be found in The Decay ofLying, where he would complain in Vivian’s voice how “one becomes abstract andimpersonal” out of doors. In his one-act tragedy Salomé, however, the event whichwas traditionally believed to take place within Herod’s palace was deliberately setoutside the doors. To a certain degree, this arrangement has set the tone for the wholetragedy. Through the employment of the outdoor spaces and the deliberate confusionof the Inside with the Outside, Oscar Wilde has successfully created an atmosphere ofmadness, absurdity and horror that has haunted Salomé from the very beginning: theoutdoor spaces, in facilitating the identification of Salome with the image of Maenad,give the play a touch of madness; Salome’s deliberate attempts at confusing the Insidewith the Outside, principally motivated by the male gaze that permeates the indoorspaces and costs Salome her subjectivity, was plagued with futility and fruitlessness,from whence came the horror of homelessness that has consummated her tragedy.
文摘In contrast with the large number of theatrical performances and filmic versions for television, both British and American, based on the play The Importance of Being Earnest （1975） by Oscar Wilde, there have only been, so far, three films made for the cinema. Although one of them was made in the United States by the American director Kurt Baker in 1992, this paper will address only the two English versions, chronologically separated by a 50-year time span. It will focus on the cinematic adaptations made by English directors Anthony Asquith and Oliver Parker, the former in 1952 and the latter in 2002. Based on the same play, this comparative approach may throw some light on the evolution of cinematographic conditions and techniques as well as relate them to the expectations of audiences in the mid 20th century and at the beginning of the 21st century.
文摘It is generally acknowledged that there were three immortal monuments inthehistory of English comedies from the Elizabethan age to Victorian times.Thefirst monument was represented by Willram Shakespeare,whose plays formed thegreatest glory of the English Renaissance and have never been matched by anyof his successors;the second monument was marked by Richard Brinsley Sheri-
文摘The Decay of Lying,one of Wilde’s famous critic dialogues,is a demonstration of his aesthetic opinions,such as Art is telling lies,Life imitates art etc,which gives full expression of his pursue of art’s purity and independence.Wilde absolutely takes the side of art and is against the forced interference of art as the subject by politics,utilitarianism,morality and ethics,against the erosion of the artistic realm of beauty by over-realness,against taking the form of art as the accessory to certain content or subject.However,Wilde totally isolates art from reality by putting them in the position of dual antithesis,and this is the root of the internal contradictions in his Aestheticism.This essay aims to discuss the contradictions from four aspects:contradiction between art and real life,art and morality,art and truth and then contradiction between art’s form and content,so as to get a better understanding and correct evaluation of Wilde and his aestheticism.
文摘(…continued)(the warder)who keeps shut up in prison and despair as he followeverywhere,thus making it impossidle to escape. For they starve the little frightened child Till it weeps bothnight and day: And they scourge the weak,and flog the fool, And gibe the old and grey, And some grow mad,and all grow bad, And none a word may say.
文摘It has been a almost a century since Oscar Wilde’s comedies appeared on theEnglish stage and during this period they have met with both compliments andcensures.In the first years when his comedies monopol1zed London theatres, Wildewas regarded as great as William Shakespeare.But after his arrest on April 6,1895,his reputation suffered a disastrous decline.Since then,his plays have
文摘According to Arthur Granz,a literary critic,“Oscar Wilde’s societycomedies have foolish plots and brilliant dialogue.”We do not agree withhis unfair comment against the merits of Wilde’s original use of conventionalplots as discussed in my previous thesis.However,we do agree with his impar-tial judgement about Wilde’s brilliant dialogue,When Wilde’s comedies
文摘Oscar Wilde is not only a literary artist but also a literary critic in the Victorian age.As a critic,he carried through his aesthetic ideology of the critic as artist that he treated the critic activity as art creation.The Portrait of Mr.W.H.is one of Wilde’s critic work exclusively on Shakespeare’s sonnets.It is a piece of critic work as well as a piece of creative art in the form of novella,which well demonstrated Wilde’s critical ideology of the critic as artist.This present paper will try to analyze Wilde’s Shakespearean critic from his ideology on critic and art by taking the case of The Portrait of Mr.W.H.
文摘As two literary giants in English literary history,Oscar Wilde is so fascinated in Shakespeare as we can see not only their literary relationship,but also Shakespearean elements pervades in Oscar Wilde’s critical works.Shakespearean plays,characters,and even sentences were used either as a kind of tool or as a target for Wilde’s aesthetic ideology concerning the relationship on art and criticism,art and life,as well as art and morality.By sorting out the Shakespearean elements in Wilde’s aesthetic ideology and analyzing its causes,we may further acquire the close relationship between Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde’s aesthetic thought.
文摘Based on a theoretical framework adapted from the theories of Itamar Even-Zohar,this paper puts the translation of Oscar Wilde’s works into the dynamic historical context of the Chinese cultural poly-system and attempts to explore which factors prompted Oscar Wilde’s works to be first introduced and translated into China.
文摘The picture of Dorian Gray is the classic work of Oscar Wilde, the representative personage of Aestheticism. Since the novel was published in 1891, scholars have been studying it from various perspectives. Wilde expressed plentiful epigrams about love by conversations in the novel, and he once compared himself with characters in it, which provides possibility and clues for probing into his view of love through the novel. Starting from the description of women characters, Dorian's relationship with Basil and Henry, and some stories of marriage in the novel, the paper analyzes Wilde's aesthetic and pessimistic view of love and his advocacy for Greek love based on the British society then and Wilde's own experiences.
文摘A similar tragedy of lethal obsession, wanton murder, and perverse necrophilia, Faulkner's short story A Rose for Emily remarkably parallels Wilde's play Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act. In the bloody crime of Wilde's Princess Salomé, Faulkner sees the archetype of a compelling and terrifying female nature, thereby creating the shocking perversity of his Lady Emily.Faulkner's short story, with Lady Emily an epitome of apocalyptic depravity like Princess Salomé, marks the end of an era in the history of the American South.
文摘Oscar Wilde is mainly famous for being the representative figure of Aesthetic Movement and the steadfast advocate of"art for art's sake". Although being influenced by the traditional dichotomy of women, Wilde does try to add some personal elements during this process. In one of his social comedies, An Ideal Husband, this wildean characteristic is more obvious. This essay attempts to reveal those hidden images which are employed by Wilde to represent his female characters and tries to show the Wilde's improvement of the traditional dichotomy.
文摘Oscar Fingal O ‘Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 – 1900) is an Irish playwright, poet and author of numerousplays and one novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.Known for his biting wit,he became one of the most successfulplaywrights of the late Victorian era in London,and one of the greatest celebrities of his day.As a spokesmanfor aestheticism,he believes that beauty is the essence of art and life should imitate art.Salome is one of Wilde’s important plays,in which he fully practices his idea of aestheticism.Therefore,aestheticism is the key tounderstanding this one-act play.This thesis is made up of three parts:the first part briefly introduces theaesthetic movement; the second part focuses on Oscar Wilde and his aesthetic beliefs; the last part which isalso the most important one discusses the play Salome and its aesthetic values.
