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Oscar Wilde in Vienna : pleasing and teasing the audience /

Oscar Wilde in Vienna is the first book-length study in English of the reception of Oscar Wilde's works in the German-speaking world. Charting the plays' history on Viennese stages between 1903 and 2013, it casts a spotlight on the international reputation of one of the most popular Englis...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mayer, Sandra
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : Brill, 2018.
Colección:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; v. 198.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Oscar Wilde and the Art of Creating a Great Sensation
  • An Artefact of Commodified Culture: Trading Wilde in the Literary Marketplace
  • Curtain Up: Wilde Enters the Viennese Stage
  • Forging the Construct: Wilde the Playwright in Early-Twentieth-Century Vienna
  • Consolidating the Construct: The Canonisation of Wildean Drama on Viennese Stages before 1938
  • Modifying vs Preserving the Construct: The Viennese Wilde Revival after 1945
  • Remodelling the Construct: Wildean Drama and the Politics of Disambiguation at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
  • Conclusion: Literary Reputation(s) and the Promise of Canonical Survival, or In Pursuit of the 'Real' Wilde.