The Unmasking of Oscar WildeIgnatius Press, 3. 9. 2009 - 400 strán (strany) Vilified by fellow Victorians for his sexuality and his dandyism, Oscar Wilde, the great poet, satirist and playwright, is hailed today, in some circles, as a progressive sexual liberator. But this image is not how Wilde saw himself. Joseph Pearce's biography strips away pretensions to show the real man, his aspirations and desires. It uncovers how he was broken by his prison sentence; it probes the deeper thinking behind masterpieces such as The Picture of Dorian Gray and De Profundis; and it traces his fascination with Catholicism through to his eleventh-hour conversion. Pearce removes the masks and reveals the Wilde beneath the surface. He has written a profound, wide-ranging study with many original insights on a great literary figure. |
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... beauty of which was once more evident in his Grammar of Assent, published in 1870, the year before Wilde's arrival at Trinity. In this book, Newman elucidated the philosophy of faith and it is difficult to conceive that Wilde could ...
... Beauty for Beauty's Sake : ' Beauty is perfect . Beauty is capable of all things . Beauty is the only thing in the world which does not excite desire . At this stage , Wilde's enshrining of beauty was reconciled with , and dependent on ...
... beauty and the mark of the beast. These paradoxes of life and art became Wilde's principal preoccupation during his first year at Oxford. This can be readily gauged by the main headings that he chose for the Commonplace Book: Culture ...
... beauty was shared by the artist and author George du Maurier, who considered her one of the three most beautiful women he had ever seen. 12 Wilde informed Harding that he was taking Florence to the afternoon service at Dublin's ...
... beauty and necessity' of the Incarnation, stating that it helped humanity 'grasp at the skirts of the Infinite': 'since Christ the dead world has woke up from sleep. Since him we have lived. I think the greatest proof of the Incarnation ...
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Malice Through the Looking Glass | |
Critic or Artist | |
Friends and Relations | |
Saints and Sinners | |
Fatal Attraction | |
Courting Conviction | |
Descent | |
Abyss | |
Courting Controversy | |
Poetry and Pose | |
Courting Constance | |
The French Connection | |
Truth and Masks | |
Purity and Passion | |
Poison and Passion | |
Unhappy Hypocrite | |
Purgatory | |
Out of the Depths | |
Wilderness | |
Hounded by Heaven | |
Revelations | |
Endnotes | |