The Importance of Being Paradoxical: Maternal Presence in the Works of Oscar WildeFairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997 - 144 strán (strany) Patrick M. Horan presents his own biography of Speranza and Wilde to illustrate that they were, paradoxically, both rebellious and conventional. He terms this contradictory impulse to upset and maintain the status quo "conventional Bohemianism." Horan then explores Speranza's presence in Wilde's literature and stresses that he shared her love of paradox, which he used to explain his contradictory views about nationalism, feminism, love, motherhood, and imprisonment. Horan argues that, even though Wilde longed to be recognized by fashionable London society, he was "self-alienated" because he was hailed as the son of an Irish nationalist poet. He illustrates that feminism was problematic for both mother and son - they were both trailblazing feminists. Nevertheless, Speranza idealized wives as self-sacrificing and submissive, and Wilde idealized female lovers as objects of beauty. Horan asserts that Speranza's love of Irish myth fostered young Wilde's love of fantasy, which is evidenced in his fairy tales and The Picture of Dorian Gray. He concludes that Wilde wrote fantasy, in part, to identify humanity's inhumanity, to acknowledge that love is often unreciprocated, and to affirm the naturalness of homosexuality. He also proposes that Wilde wrote fiction and drama, to present the self-sacrificing nature of motherhood; his mother's characters clearly exhibit Speranza's at once conventional and Bohemian personality. Finally, the author demonstrates that in "De Profundis," Wilde acknowledged Speranza's wise and paradoxical credo that sorrow brings joy. |
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... example , she pontificates , " Let all women who have sinned be punished " ( WNI , 449 ) . Tellingly , the ... example of Ameri- can women and striving to learn independence . For example 66 THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING PARADOXICAL.
... example , she pontificates , " Let all women who have sinned be punished " ( WNI , 449 ) . Tellingly , the ... example of Ameri- can women and striving to learn independence . For example 66 THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING PARADOXICAL.
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... example , she boasted that " even English society , prisoned as it is in rou- tine , is making praiseworthy efforts to cast aside ... the stupid old conventions of our false humanity " ( E , 152 ) . Finally , she was proud that English ...
... example , she boasted that " even English society , prisoned as it is in rou- tine , is making praiseworthy efforts to cast aside ... the stupid old conventions of our false humanity " ( E , 152 ) . Finally , she was proud that English ...
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... example , he proudly and continually recounts his past crimes , one of which includes murdering his wife . Nevertheless , Wilde's ghost is multidimensional and more " real " than the stereotyped mate- rialistic American family ...
... example , he proudly and continually recounts his past crimes , one of which includes murdering his wife . Nevertheless , Wilde's ghost is multidimensional and more " real " than the stereotyped mate- rialistic American family ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
Eleutheria Poems | 37 |
and Early Prose | 56 |
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