The art of the pose
Subtitle: Oscar Wilde's performance theory
By: Heather Marcovitch
Publisher: Peter Lang; Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften; Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9783034304399
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Oscar Wilde and performance theory; title: Foundations and experiments: Oscar Wilde at Oxford; title: Celebrity, caricatures and public performances in the 1880s; title: Wilde's performance theory and the critical essays; title: Decadent anxiety and negative capabilities: The picture of Dorian Gray and Salome; title: The dialectic of persona and stereotypes in the society comedies; title: Performance as redemption in De profundis and The ballad of reading Gaol.