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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... homosexuality and use it to achieve wholeness of being and to explain his prob- lematic relationship to society.82 Similarly , Wayne Koestenbaum argues that this poem is Wilde's attempt to connect with his homosexual reading public and ...
... homosexuality and use it to achieve wholeness of being and to explain his prob- lematic relationship to society.82 Similarly , Wayne Koestenbaum argues that this poem is Wilde's attempt to connect with his homosexual reading public and ...
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... homosexual living in conservative nineteenth- century England , undoubtedly felt the desire to speak out against prejudice . Naturally , he admired courageous women , like Speranza , who argued for sexual equality . " Woman is no coward ...
... homosexual living in conservative nineteenth- century England , undoubtedly felt the desire to speak out against prejudice . Naturally , he admired courageous women , like Speranza , who argued for sexual equality . " Woman is no coward ...
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... homosexual character and the most mor- ally sensitive as well , thus countering the stereotyped notion that homosexuality is decadent . Summers also concludes that Wilde's characters personify different aspects of homosexuality : Lord ...
... homosexual character and the most mor- ally sensitive as well , thus countering the stereotyped notion that homosexuality is decadent . Summers also concludes that Wilde's characters personify different aspects of homosexuality : Lord ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
Eleutheria Poems | 37 |
and Early Prose | 56 |
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