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Author : Iain Ross
Release : 2013
Genre : Literary Collections
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 328/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece by : Iain Ross
Download or read book Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece written by Iain Ross. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar Wilde's imagination was haunted by ancient Greece; this book traces its presence in his life and works.
Author : Iain Ross
Release : 2008
Genre : Archaeology in literature
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Book Synopsis The New Hellenism by : Iain Ross
Download or read book The New Hellenism written by Iain Ross. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. Evangelista
Release : 2015-12-17
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 200/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis British Aestheticism and Ancient Greece by : S. Evangelista
Download or read book British Aestheticism and Ancient Greece written by S. Evangelista. This book was released on 2015-12-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive study of the reception of classical Greece among English aesthetic writers of the nineteenth century. By exploring this history of reception, it aims to give readers a new and fuller understanding of literary aestheticism, its intellectual contexts, and its challenges to mainstream Victorian culture.
Author : Kathleen Riley
Release : 2018
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 262/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity by : Kathleen Riley
Download or read book Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity written by Kathleen Riley. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few authors of the Victorian period were as immersed in classical learning as Oscar Wilde. Although famous now and during his lifetime as a wit, aesthete, and master epigrammist, Wilde distinguished himself early on as a talented classical scholar, studying at Trinity College Dublin and Oxford and winning academic prizes and distinctions at both institutions. His undergraduate notebooks as well as his essays and articles on ancient topics reveal a mind engrossed in problems in classical scholarship and fascinated by the relationship between ancient and modern thought. His first publications were English translations of classical texts and even after he had 'left Parnassus for Piccadilly' antiquity continued to provide him with a critical vocabulary in which he could express himself and his aestheticism, an intellectual framework for understanding the world around him, and a compelling set of narratives to fire his artist's imagination. His debt to Greece and Rome is evident throughout his writings, from the sparkling wit of society plays like The Importance of Being Earnest to the extraordinary meditation on suffering that is De Profundis, written during his incarceration in Reading Gaol. Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity brings together scholars from across the disciplines of classics, ancient history, English literature, theatre and performance studies, and the history of ideas to explore the varied and profound impact that Graeco-Roman antiquity had on Wilde's life and work. This wide-ranging collection covers all the major genres of his literary output; it includes new perspectives on his most celebrated and canonical texts and close analyses of unpublished material, revealing as never before the enduring breadth and depth of his love affair with the classics.
Author : Gideon Nisbet
Release : 2013-10
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 495/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Greek Epigram in Reception by : Gideon Nisbet
Download or read book Greek Epigram in Reception written by Gideon Nisbet. This book was released on 2013-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the evolution and reception history of a collection of ancient Greek epigrams from the early nineteenth to twentieth century, the volume analyses the rhetoric which writers and translators brought to the text, highlighting the after effects of this cultural war on the interpretations of Ancient Greece in British print culture.
