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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... never heard of , that she turned Nationalist and wrote those energetic rhymes " that Yeats read in his youth.5 Wilde's account of his mother's reaction , however , is tellingly embellished : one day in 1845 , standing at the window of ...
... never heard of , that she turned Nationalist and wrote those energetic rhymes " that Yeats read in his youth.5 Wilde's account of his mother's reaction , however , is tellingly embellished : one day in 1845 , standing at the window of ...
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... never " ( MWB , 176 ) . In her essay on George Eliot , Speranza argued that Eliot's style cluttered her gifts as a writer , which were her “ keen insight into ordinary human life and commonplace natures ; some humour - a strong ...
... never " ( MWB , 176 ) . In her essay on George Eliot , Speranza argued that Eliot's style cluttered her gifts as a writer , which were her “ keen insight into ordinary human life and commonplace natures ; some humour - a strong ...
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... never marries her idealized lover , the ghost . " 26 Many characters in Wilde's first collection of fairy tales , enti- tled The Happy Prince and Other Tales , receive inhumane treatment for their humane actions . Isobel Murray notes ...
... never marries her idealized lover , the ghost . " 26 Many characters in Wilde's first collection of fairy tales , enti- tled The Happy Prince and Other Tales , receive inhumane treatment for their humane actions . Isobel Murray notes ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
Eleutheria Poems | 37 |
and Early Prose | 56 |
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