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    High Modernism
    High Modernism ab 24.49 € als pdf eBook: Aestheticism and Performativity in Literature of the 1920s. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft,
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    Health Aphorisms
    Health Aphorisms ab 36.49 € als gebundene Ausgabe: And An Essay On The Struggle For Life Against Civilization Luxury And Aestheticism (1882). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Gebundene Ausgaben,
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    Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 964min
    Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today, he is remembered for his epigrams, his only novel (The Picture of Dorian Gray), his plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.In this volume, English historian and author Gardiner uses Wilde's own words to delineate his life and times. What emerges is a picture of a man whom William Butler Yeats described as "the greatest talker of all time". Gardiner highlights Wilde's advocacy of aestheticism, his "search after the signs of the beautiful", which led him to renounce his conventional lifestyle and become an active homosexual. The final third of the book focuses on Wilde's tumultuous relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas and the scandal that resulted when Bosie's father, the Marquess of Queensbury, attacked Wilde's way of life. The volume is beset by a number of mechanical problems - quotations from original sources are awkwardly incorporated into the author's sentences, punctuation is at times faulty, and transitions not always smooth. Nonetheless, the book provides a good overview of Wilde's life; Gardiner acknowledges Richard Ellman's biography (Oscar Wilde, LJ 12/87) as the "fullest life possible". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kyle Hicks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/231364/bk_acx0_231364_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Beginning Theory
    Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for well over a decade now. This new and expanded third edition continues to offer students and readers the best one-volume introduction to the field. The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and technical language is lucidly and expertly unravelled. Unlike many books which assume certain positions about the critics and the theories they represent, Peter Barry allows readers to develop their own ideas once first principles and concepts have been grasped. The book has been updated and includes two new chapters, one of which (Literary theory - a history in ten events) innovatively surveys the course of theory, while the other (Theory after 'Theory') maps the arrival of new 'isms' since the second edition appeared in 2002. Liberal humanism - Structuralism - Post-structuralism and deconstruction - Postmodernism - Psychoanalytic criticism - Feminist criticism - Lesbian/gay criticism - Marxist criticism - New historicism and cultural materialism - Postcolonial criticism - Stylistics - Narratology - Ecocriticism - Presentism/Transversal poetics/ New aestheticism/Historical formalism/Cognitive poetics.
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    The Picture of Dorian Gray , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 486min
    Oscar Wilde brings his enormous gifts for astute social observation and sparkling prose to The Picture of Dorian Gray, the dreamlike story of a young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty. This dandy, who remains forever unchanged---petulant, hedonistic, vain, and amoral---while a painting of him ages and grows increasingly hideous with the years, has been horrifying and enchanting readers for more than 100 years. Taking the reader in and out of London drawing rooms, to the heights of aestheticism, and to the depths of decadence, The Picture of Dorian Gray is not simply a melodrama about moral corruption. Laced with bon mots and vivid depictions of upper-class refinement, it is also a fascinating look at the milieu of Wilde's fin-de-siècle world and a manifesto of the creed "Art for Art's Sake."The ever-quotable Wilde, who once delighted London with his scintillating plays, scandalized readers with this, his only novel. Upon publication, Dorian was condemned as dangerous, poisonous, stupid, vulgar, and immoral, and Wilde as a "driveling pedant." The novel, in fact, was used against Wilde at his much-publicized trials for "gross indecency," which led to his imprisonment and exile on the European continent. Even so, The Picture of Dorian Gray firmly established Wilde as one of the great voices of the Aesthetic movement and endures as a classic that is as timeless as its hero. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Prebble. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/000756/bk_tant_000756_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Picture of Dorian Gray , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 495min
    The most personal of Oscar Wilde's works, The Picture of Dorian Grey was also one of the earliest. It was published in 1891 and caused immediate controversy and great notoriety for its writer. The story of an immensely beautiful and hedonistic boy whose conscience becomes separate from his body and housed in a portrait which slowly and hideously ages and decays in keeping with his increasing depravity whilst the boy himself remains untouched plays with all of Oscar Wilde's theories of art and life. As a major proponent of aestheticism and its belief in art for art's sake, Wilde is examining his contention, made in the book, that all art is useless and should be. The flamboyant excess of the beautiful youth's life and the detachment he feels from his surroundings and fellow revellers echo Wilde's own rampant existence. There is even an exploration of Wilde's obsession with beauty and beautiful things in the repeated idea that when life gets too painful, human beings find escape in 'that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid'. The book is full of Wilde's astonishingly clever epigrams and witticisms. The detachment that Dorian feels from his society allows him a perfect vantage point from which to hurl some glorious insults. But like all of Wilde's work, the clever aphorisms and the all but perfect form hide a stingingly sharp and ultimately rather Catholic moral. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Crispin Bonham-Carter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/slks/000039/bk_slks_000039_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Pedagogical Explorations in a Posthuman Age
    Pedagogical Explorations in a Posthuman Age ab 138.99 € als gebundene Ausgabe: Essays on Designer Capitalism Eco-Aestheticism and Visual and Popular Culture as West-East Meet. 1st ed. 2020. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Pädagogik,
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    Pedagogical Explorations in a Posthuman Age
    Pedagogical Explorations in a Posthuman Age ab 138.99 € als Taschenbuch: Essays on Designer Capitalism Eco-Aestheticism and Visual and Popular Culture as West-East Meet. 1st ed. 2020. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,
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    Pedagogical Explorations in a Posthuman Age
    Pedagogical Explorations in a Posthuman Age ab 128.49 € als pdf eBook: Essays on Designer Capitalism Eco-Aestheticism and Visual and Popular Culture as West-East Meet. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Sozialwissenschaften,
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    The Motif of the Doppelgänger in "William Wilson" and "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (eBook, PDF)
    Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,0, University of Duisburg-Essen (Anglistik), language: English, abstract: Poe was a writer of gothic novels and the influences of it can be seen in William Wilson. There are of course many different ways to interpret this story but this term paper focuses on the idea that Wilson's double functions as his own conscience as well as society's conscience. In order to have a better understanding of this concept, Freud's psychoanalysis will be used as a foundation to this analysis. The second chapter focuses on Oscar Wild's The Picture of Dorian Gray. In this novel, the double takes on a completely different shape but symbolises the same inner conflict. This novel was written in a time, when the motif of the double was already in decline and it will be interesting to see in how far these two stories differ. In order to compare the novel to Poe's short story the focus will be similar to William Wilson in so far as the role of the double will be analysed. Does Dorian Gray's portrait act as a conscience as well? Here again Freud's psychoanalysis as well as his essay the Uncanny will be regarded as a source. The Picture of Dorian Gray can be analysed in many different ways. There is the topic of Art and aestheticism as well as a "cult of the senses". It is, however, the topic of the double, realised through a portrait of the Self, which is the focus of this term paper. Other topics will only be discussed in connection to the main focus.
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