...Victor A. Oswald, Jr OSCAR WILDE, STEFAN GEORGE, HELIOGABALUS* By VICTORA. OSWALD,JR. In Gundolf‘s discourse on the inception of Stefan George’s Algabd, after he has identified the protagonist of the lyric cycle as “a symbol of omnipotence...

...David Parker OSCAR WILDE’S GREAT FARCE THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST By DAVIDPARKER It is generally agreed that The Zmportance of Being Earnest is Oscar Wilde’s masterpiece, but there is little agreement on why...

...Petra Dierkes-Thrun The familiar scholarly view of Richard Strauss's modernist opera Salome is that it overturns the original aesthetics of its libretto source, Oscar Wilde's 1891 symbolist-decadent drama. A close reconsideration of the presumed opposition between the two works, however, shows...

...Florian Gargaillo Abstract This essay argues for the distinctive role of allusion in queer poetry of the pre-Stonewall era, using the work of Oscar Wilde, A. E. Housman, and Countee Cullen as case studies. Most allusions depend on implicit verbal echoes that can be identified by readers able...

... of the risk for legal action. In September 1896 he complained to his half brother Georges that no English publisher would undertake the translation; then in November he refused an offer: “In part due to Amorph [Oscar Wilde] . . . and largely because I do not want to hear any more talk of that book” (Un peu...

... credentials but with their emergence as attempted solutions to a crisis. As these readings get established, the crisis that produced them gets progres- sively buried, only to reemerge at junctures like the trial of Oscar Wilde in the 1890s. At the moment of the formation of “Shakespeare”through...

.... $29.95. Mudge, Bradford Keyes. Sara Coleridge, a Victm’an Daughter: Her LiJe and Essays. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1989. xvii + 287 pp. $30.00. Murray, Isobel (editor). Oscar Wilde. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, Oxford Authors, 1989. xxii + 635 pp. $39.95...

... in its exploration of numerous nineteenth-century French, British, and American writers, primarily Charles Baudelaire, Aubrey Beardsley, Théophile Gautier, Vernon Lee, Stéphane Mallarmé, Walter Pater, Edgar Allan Poe, Algernon Swinburne, and Oscar Wilde. Potolsky argues against those critics who construe...

..., and the contrasts offered by the careers of Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw to the more general problem of hegemony, the ide- ology of “ascendancy” in the colonial situation of Ireland, and the peculiar development of an avant-garde aesthetic under “archaic” social and politi- cal conditions...

...E. H. Eby Gay Wilson Allen. Boston: The F. W. Faxon Company, 1943. Pp. 57. Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 370 Reviews Mr. Buckley’s analysis of his materials has been too superficial to discover the basic unity between the attitudes of Oscar...

... of Oscar Wilde, or rather Ruben Dario’s reading away from Oscar Wilde, is one scene of translation; his reading of D’Annunzio’s Le Martyre de Saint Sibastien, another. Jose Marti’s reading of Oscar Wilde’s _figure, during his North American tour of 1882, is a third example of anx- ious translation...

... elements in Queen Mab, that Nellas shows little specific debt to Godwin, but that the under- lying principles of Politicd Justice are “perennial ideas” in Shelley. He traces Godwin’s influence on the socialist writers of England down through Oscar Wilde and H. G. Wells. He believes...

.... 92 BOOKS RECEIVED 93 Bird, Alan. The Plays of Oscar Wilde. New York: Barnes & Noble, Critical Studies, 1977. 220 pp. $16.50. Brook, G. L. The Language of Shakespeare. London: Andre Deutsch, The Language Library, 1976...

..., The Magistrate, The Schoolmistress, and Dandy Dick. More remark- able, however, is the presence of two famous names, Oscar Wilde and Bernard Shaw. The discussion of techniques of the farce is illus- trated, inter alia, with citations from The Importance of Being Earnest, as a “Farcenkomodie...

... for disciplinary transfer. Instead, it offers terms and concepts that can be modified fruitfully for literary critics. I use Oscar Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) as a test case for such modi- fication. My purpose is not to interpret Wilde’s novel but to construct a framework for understanding...

.... Mr. Hicks’s Figures of Trumitiotz is a curiously unoriginal work. The result of a Guggenheim Fellowship, it examines the achievements of William Morris, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Butler, George Gissing, Oscar Wilde, and Rudyard Kipling, in a series of very readable essays prefaced...

... with the artistic and political consciousness of Oscar Wilde. For Dollimore, Wilde hero- ically extended his sense of sexual dissidence into a wider cultural dissidence intent upon critiquing the premises of established society. In this light, as he is quick to point out, Dollimore’s use of the word...

.... Buckley’s analysis of his materials has been too superficial to discover the basic unity between the attitudes of Oscar Wilde and Sherlock Holmes on the one hand, of Henley and Bulldog Drum- mond on the other, and of the mingling of both in Kipling. For Kip- ling at school was an aesthete just...

..., and ideas—from Gerard Manley Hopkins’s attempt to capture his sensory experiences of networks and collectives in his environmental surroundings to Oscar Wilde’s Oxford notebooks, which “socialize data” from his studies through a recombinant (and eclectic) technique of aphoristic commonplacing modeled...

... principles of Politicd Justice are “perennial ideas” in Shelley. He traces Godwin’s influence on the socialist writers of England down through Oscar Wilde and H. G. Wells. He believes that with recogni- tion by men like Middleton Murry and H. N. Brailsford, Godwin is being given “his rightful...