The aesthetics of self-invention
Subtitle: Oscar Wilde to David Bowie
By: Shelton Waldrep.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Aesthetics.; Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Knowledge -- Performing arts.; Bowie, David.; Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain.; Aesthetics, British -- 19th century.; Aesthetics, Modern -- 20th century.; Performing arts -- Great Britain.; Romanticism -- Great Britain.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Wilde's romantic irony; title: Attributing Wilde; title: Performing Wilde; title: Talking as performance; title: Phenomenology of performance: David Bowie.