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41	Encounters with art-objects in discourse network 1890 Gracia, Dominique January 2017 (has links) What can the study of Victorian literature gain from approaching primary texts explicitly as processing, storing, and transmitting data? I suggest that, by applying tools and methodologies from German media history that are usually reserved for technical and digital media, we can illuminate how individual texts operate and better understand Victorian texts as media, which remains an underdeveloped aspect of materialist literary study. In analysing how Victorian texts depict encounters with traditional plastic art-objects, I develop new applications of Friedrich Kittler’s ideas of recursion and transposition, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s method of reading for Stimmung, and the theory of cultural techniques (Kulturtechniken). I also propose new concepts to further our understanding of how encounters with art-objects function, such as the observer effect: the simultaneous perception of past and future meanings of an art-object. Close readings of Michael Field’s Sight and Song and Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Ballads and Sonnets suggest that both volumes acknowledge encounter as a cultural technique, rather than a spontaneous, independent action by the subject. Yet they propose different roles for themselves within that technique. Michael Field’s poems purport to halt the process of recursion, but Rossetti’s demand that readers experience their own observer effects. Meanwhile, Vernon Lee’s Hauntings: Fantastic Stories and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray demonstrate the agency of art-objects vis-à-vis the cultural technique of encounter. Lee’s stories reveal the threat to an individual subject’s production of future meanings that art-objects pose, in particular through their effects of presence. In Dorian Gray, the art-object’s own data processing circumscribes the subject’s observer effect. Each text thus evidences its operations as a medium and its complicated relationships with other media in the form of art-objects. Each processes data; recurs to art-objects, tropes, or themes and transmits future meanings thereof; and participates in the cultural technique of encounter. In so doing, these texts resisted the threats of marginalisation that faced ‘old media’ from the rise of photography and the incipient development of film at the fin de siècle. 820.9
42	Technika morbidního v pohádkách / Technology of morbid in fairy tales Prokopová, Eliška January 2016 (has links) (in English): The diploma thesis deals with the specific conception of body and corporeality in fairy tales, especially with morbid elements which are often reflected as non-fairy tale. The fairy tales of Karel Jaromír Erben, Hans Christian Andersen and Oscar Wilde are the main focus. The thesis also introduces the theory of the Swiss scholar Max Lüthi formulated in The European Folktale: Form and Nature into the Czech context. The thesis is divided into a theoretical and a practical part. The theoretical section provides a complex explication of Max Lüthi's theory of the fairy tale. It examines the main terms that Luthi defined for the fairy tale: One-dimensionality, Depthlessness, Abstract Style, Isolation and Universal Interconnection, Sublimation and All-Inclusiveness. Then the frame of this theory is extended into the field of the authorial fairy tale. The diploma thesis then sums up the differences and the points of contact between those two subgenres using The Story of the Eldest Princess as an example. The practical part focuses on relevant strategies of handling the body and corporeality in fairy tales. The last chapter deals with techniques of breaking the surface of the fairy tale characters' bodies, with internal destruction of the body and with the elements in between. All is...
43	The Happy Prince : A Paradoxical Aesthetic Tale and a Dual Critique of Victorian Times Caizergues, Quentin January 2020 (has links) This essay highlights The Happy Prince’s advantageous use of conventions of the fairy tale genre to stress critical issues of the Victorian period: the challenge of the established Christian socio-moral order, the rising of the bourgeois industrial society, and the advent of aestheticism as a response. Using the close reading technique supported by the Victorian socio-historical background, the analysis establishes that the criticism proceeds by double associations. Firstly, the clear structure of the tale, enriched by a plethora of aesthetical features and suitable narrative processes, is propitious for children’s access to a message calling for more human generosity. Meanwhile, subtle analogies to the Christian imagery appear blurred by paradoxical elements. This prevents a definite religious interpretation from adults to which those messages are intended. Secondly, in connection with aestheticism, a social and moral criticism takes the form of a satire of the utilitarian vision of the bourgeoisie and a questioning of the common Victorian beliefs: the link between beauty and moral integrity, as well as the moral code of femininity. Finally, the utilitarian discourse and the disapproval of the research for pleasure from beauty merging with a hedonist vision, advocate an “art for art’s sake” free of these respective considerations. Oscar Wilde The Happy Prince fairy tale aestheticism moral standards social satire Victorian society Christian values Specific Literatures Litteraturstudier
44	Bittersweet Attachments: Reimagining Desire in Queer Biographical Literature Hannan, Theodora 18 April 2018 (has links) No description available. Literature Theater Biographies Gender Studies Moises Kaufman Tom Stoppard Oscar Wilde AE Housman queer theory biographical literature affect bittersweet desire
45	An Ecocritical Analysis of Oscar Wilde’s A House of Pomegranates : Human- Nonhuman Interactions in the Fairy Tales Aramian, Eva January 2022 (has links) Abstract This thesis investigates the interactions between human and nonhuman characters that express a particular concern regarding nature and the environment in Oscar Wilde's four fairy tales in A House of Pomegranates. The author utilizes a significant number of nonhuman characters to communicate with humans, which is a fairy-tale convention in which truth wins over falsehood, kindness is rewarded, and virtue triumphs over evil. However, Wilde's stories move beyond the fairy tale convention based on their ecocritical and political viewpoints. Based on a close reading of the four tales in Wilde's book, the thesis argues that the involvement of nonhuman characters, and their participation in events with human figures, raises several ecocritical matters. It also contends that nonhuman characters display interest in guiding human characters in their transformational journeys to support them in understanding that they all share one Earth and must be concerned about all species, nature, and the environment. Finally, this study argues that nonhuman characters communicate and talk mostly for their and nature’s rights, but sometimes they represent Victorians’ society. The analysis highlights the depth of the ecocritical approaches and how they are expressed in the texts. In addition, the discussions shed light on Victorian ecocriticism, including some theories and ideas of Anthropomorphism and Anthropocentrism within animal studies and transformation, which complete the analysis. Ecocriticism Victorian ecocriticism Animal Studies Oscar Wilde Fairy tales Human-nonhuman interaction Transformation. Languages and Literature Språk och litteratur
46	Wilde's Women : A feminist study of the female characters in Oscar Wilde’s comedies of manners: Lady Windermere’s Fan, A woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband Weber, Minon January 2017 (has links) Towards the end of the 19th century, Wilde produced the three comedies that I will focus on in this essay. These plays, Lady Windermere’s Fan, A woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband, are all comedies of manners: intelligent dramatic comedies satirising contemporary fashionable circles of society and its manners, as well as social expectations. This type of comedy is often represented by stereotypical characters, such as the fallen woman, the good woman and the young innocent maiden, all three of which I will investigate in this essay. oscar wilde wilde comedies of manners victorian England society Victorian Society patriarchy feminism A Woman of No Importance An Ideal Husband Lady Windermere's Fan Rita Felski Felski patriarchal society transgressing gender boundaries gender boundaries fallen woman fallen women good women good woman stereotypes theatre play plays comedies Oscar Wilde feminism Oscar Wilde plays Specific Literatures Litteraturstudier Specific Languages Studier av enskilda språk
47	Catching All Passions in His Craft of Will: Portraits and Pater in Oscar Wilde’s “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.” Jones, Rebecca E 01 January 2016 (has links) This thesis examines Oscar Wilde’s “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.” as the product of Wilde’s long interest in critic Walter Pater’s literature and scholarship. From its first iteration published in 1889, through Wilde’s ongoing revision and expansion into the version commonly anthologized today, “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.” is an evolving work that mirrors Wilde’s enduring relationship with the art and ideas of his former teacher. This relationship is explored in three contexts: Pater’s contribution to Wilde’s understanding of the Renaissance period; the steady influence of Pater’s ideas and persona on Wilde’s other major works from the period that saw the publication and revision of “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.;” and the particular influence of Pater’s Imaginary Portraits on the structure and themes of “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.” Because of Pater’s extensive writings on art, and Wilde’s passionate interest in the subject, many of these intersections occur around the image of the portrait in Wilde’s work. Oscar Wilde Walter Pater William Shakespeare Portrait of Mr. W. H. Portraiture Sonnets Aesthetic Criticism English Language and Literature Esthetics
48	Oscar Wildes porträtt : En receptionsanalys av Oscar Wildes Dorian Grays porträtt i svensk press. Schwan, Minna January 2011 (has links) Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka recensionerna av Oscar Wildes Dorian Grays porträtt i svenska dagstidningar under utgivningsåret av den svenska översättningen (1905). Utöver att dagspressens artiklar analyseras, ges en djupare inblick av Wildes mottagande genom en undersökning av andra artiklar om Wilde år 1905, av arbetarpressens mottagande och Uppsala Universitetsbiblioteks intag av boken. Genom detta ses samtidens attityder till Wilde och hans författarskap. Reception Oscar Wilde Dorian Grays porträtt dagspress arbetarpress Brand Fredrik Ström Social-Demokraten Oscar Levertin Svenska Dagbladet Jacobine Ring Nya Dagligt Allehanda Sven Söderman Stockholms Dagblad
49	Profound Possibilities: Microscopic Science and the Literary Imagination, 1820-1900 Carmack, Jeremy 10 November 2022 (has links) No description available. Literature Nineteenth-Century British Literature microscope microscopic science contagion disease miasma theory germ theory vision and visuality James Hogg Charles Dickens Oscar Wilde Richard Marsh
50	Composing Symbolism's Musicality of Language in Fin-de-siècle France Varvir Coe, Megan Elizabeth, 1982- 08 1900 (has links) In this dissertation, I explore the musical prosody of the literary symbolists and the influence of this prosody on fin-de-siècle French music. Contrary to previous categorizations of music as symbolist based on a characteristic "sound," I argue that symbolist aesthetics demonstrably influenced musical construction and reception. My scholarship reveals that symbolist musical works across genres share an approach to composition rooted in the symbolist concept of musicality of language, a concept that shapes this music on sonic, structural, and conceptual levels. I investigate the musical responses of four different composers to a single symbolist text, Oscar Wilde's one-act play Salomé, written in French in 1891, as case studies in order to elucidate how a symbolist musicality of language informed their creation, performance, and critical reception. The musical works evaluated as case studies are Antoine Mariotte's Salomé, Richard Strauss's Salomé, Aleksandr Glazunov's Introduction et La Danse de Salomée, and Florent Schmitt's La Tragédie de Salomé. Recognition of symbolist influence on composition, and, in the case of works for the stage, on production and performance expands the repertory of music we can view critically through the lens of symbolism, developing not only our understanding of music's role in this difficult and often contradictory aesthetic philosophy but also our perception of fin-de-siècle musical culture in general. Oscar Wilde Literary symbolism Antoine Mariotte Richard Strauss Aleksandr Glazunov Florent Schmitt Salomé Symbolism in opera Symbolism in music Versification Opera -- France -- 19th century Academic theses nineteenth century (dates CE)

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