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WILDE NOWreads Oscar Wilde through our now, through a contemporary sensibility (and approach), in which literature and popular culture interrogate and are interrogated by critical concepts and categories such as performance, celebrity, intermediality, and consumerism. This volume exceeds the shape and meaning of a critical study to turn into a drama of five different acts/moments in Wilde¿s life and work: his early performances in Dublin, London and Oxford; the 1882 American tour; his successful season of the first half of the 1890s, his prison years and finally his glorious resurrection in contemporary pop culture. Most importantly WILDE NOW approaches these moments through contemporary rewritings and performances of ¿Oscar Wilde¿ in the fields of cinema, music and literature by such artists as Al Pacino, Rupert Everett, Stephen Fry, Gyles Brandreth, David Hare, David Bowie, Morrissey, Nick Cave, Neil Tennant, Gavin Friday. These artists ¿ through their awareness of the importance of being/playing Oscar in their specific worlds and cultural contexts ¿ will also show us that Wilde can be conceived as a subversive, critical role one might successfully perform and appropriate, now more than ever.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9783031304255
  • Indbinding:
  • Hardback
  • Sideantal:
  • 252
  • Udgivet:
  • 9. maj 2023
  • Udgave:
  • 23001
  • Størrelse:
  • 153x19x216 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 443 g.
  • 8-11 hverdage.
  • 25. november 2024
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WILDE NOWreads Oscar Wilde through our now, through a contemporary sensibility (and approach), in which literature and popular culture interrogate and are interrogated by critical concepts and categories such as performance, celebrity, intermediality, and consumerism. This volume exceeds the shape and meaning of a critical study to turn into a drama of five different acts/moments in Wilde¿s life and work: his early performances in Dublin, London and Oxford; the 1882 American tour; his successful season of the first half of the 1890s, his prison years and finally his glorious resurrection in contemporary pop culture. Most importantly WILDE NOW approaches these moments through contemporary rewritings and performances of ¿Oscar Wilde¿ in the fields of cinema, music and literature by such artists as Al Pacino, Rupert Everett, Stephen Fry, Gyles Brandreth, David Hare, David Bowie, Morrissey, Nick Cave, Neil Tennant, Gavin Friday. These artists ¿ through their awareness of the importance of being/playing Oscar in their specific worlds and cultural contexts ¿ will also show us that Wilde can be conceived as a subversive, critical role one might successfully perform and appropriate, now more than ever.

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