Cosmopolitan criticism : Oscar Wilde's philosophy of art / Julia Prewitt Brown.
Cosmopolitan criticism : Oscar Wilde's philosophy of art / Julia Prewitt Brown.
Cosmopolitan criticism : Oscar Wilde's philosophy of art / Julia Prewitt Brown.
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Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1997.
Date
1997.
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N828.809/7
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English
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Physical content
xx, 137 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Wilde's Play-Drive and "the Still More Difficult Art of Living" -- 2. Wilde and His Predecessors -- 3. Wilde's Reassociation of Sensibility -- 4. Wilde's Philosophy of Art -- Epilogue: Cosmopolitan Melancholy.
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Publisher
Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1997.
Place of Publication
Virginia
Date Published
1997.
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Summary
In the first book to explore the philosophical significance of Oscar Wilde's life and work, Julia Prewitt Brown establishes Wilde's importance to nineteenth-century literature and thought by placing him in the continuum of continental aesthetic philosophy from Kant and Schiller, through Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, to Benjamin and Adorno. Cosmopolita...
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Cosmopolitan criticism : Oscar Wilde's philosophy of art / Julia Prewitt Brown.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-130) and index.
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N828.809/7
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081391728X (cloth : alk. paper)
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828.809
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991005564569702626
