The ballad of Oscar Wilde
- Author/Creator:
- Hussain, Amir, author
- Publication/Creation:
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2022
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Full Title:
- The ballad of Oscar Wilde / Amir Hussain
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- Additional Author/Creators:
- Bammer, Angelika, degree supervisor
Emory University. Department of Comparative Literature, degree granting institution
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- Summary:
- Critical literature has tended to divide Oscar Wilde's life and work by his imprisonment, reinforcing a dualistic narrative in which his aestheticism is seen to have been negated by prison. Furthermore, considerations of Wilde as a poet remain largely tangential in the otherwise diverse and abundant critical discussions surrounding him and his work. My study, The Ballad of Oscar Wilde, places this received narrative into fundamental question. I argue that prison did not divorce Wilde from his prior aestheticism, and poetry allowed him to deepen it. Focusing on the writings derived from his prison cell at Reading-namely, his letter De Profundis and his poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol-as well as the ways in which his influence and remembrance as the poet of Reading extended beyond Reading into the twentieth century, I make a case for the marked and continuing influence that poetry had on Wilde and on the development of his deepened aestheticism as he dealt with the trials of his imprisonment. The chapters proceed chronologically-beginning with his imprisonment in 1895 and then, following his early death in 1900, continue to investigate his border-crossing influence on a range of twentieth-century poets and translators of poetry. Employing close reading, comparative analysis, and historic contextualization, my study presents a comparative poetic history of the fall of Wilde's life that centers the crucial role of poetry in the seemingly most unlikely of places-the prison walls of Reading and beyond.
- Language:
- English
- Language Note:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- 1 electronic resource (258 pages)
- General Note:
- Source of abstract: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-04, Section: A.
Advisors: Bammer, Angelika Committee members: Suhr-Sytsma, Nathan; White, Deborah Elise.
Keywords: Modern poetry; Literary history; Aestheticism; Comparative poetics; Wilde, Oscar - Local Note:
- ProQuest digital dissertation copies of Emory dissertations may be downloaded free of charge by Emory faculty, students, and staff unless the author has chosen to embargo the work.
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- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9937655937002486
- ISBN:
- 9798351449364
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