Beschreibung
Wilde Between the Sheets: Oscar Wilde, Mail Bondage and De Profundisargues that Oscar Wildes narrative strategies reveal a quick-witted, ingenious fighteran active agent who tested boundaries and recognized the dangers of doing so, adopting essentialist or anti-essentialist strategies according to whatever shifting purpose he is writing with. David Walton challenges the one-dimensional view of Wilde as a tragic victim defeated by the penal system, arguing that Wilde constructed a self by weaving complex networks of time and paradoxical notions of space, along with a network of literary references and other intertexts. Walton goes on to claim that Wilde fashions a self while simultaneously being shaped by those he fashions, creating a critical dialogue which shows that, by constructing Wilde through interpretive acts, he has already been partially fashioned by Wilde himself.
Autorenportrait
David Walton is senior lecturer and coordinator of cultural studies at the University of Murcia.
Inhalt
Acknowledgments
Preface: The Accidental Book
Chapter One: The Wilde-Angle Lens
Chapter Two: The Exposure of Private Parts:Ontology and the Fashioning of De Profundis
Chapter Three: Sentencing Wilde; Wilde on Trial: the Gay Science
Chapter Four: Man of Letters: Trials, Politics and Homotextuality
Chapter Five: Fashioning Wilde in the Space of the Other
Chapter Six: An Author Authored
Chapter Seven: Doing Time: Wilde chronotopes and a Poetics of Space
Chapter Eight: Sentencing a Self in the Future: the Chronotope of Future Time
Chapter Nine: Fashioning Wilde as Intertextual Man
Chapter Ten: From the multiplication of social voices to Christ on the Wilde side
Chapter Eleven: Playtex(i)t: A Dialogue
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