Bloom's Modern Critical Views - Oscar Wilde (2010) (163p) [Inua].pdf

Title: Oscar Wilde (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
Editor: Harold Bloom
Series: Bloom's Modern Critical Views
Library Binding: 156 pages
Publisher: Chelsea House Publications; New edition (October 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1604138815
ISBN-13: 978-1604138818

Description:
My introduction emphasizes that Wilde’s rightness as a critic is central to his achievement as a writer.
Wilde’s most distinguished scholar, the biographer Richard Ellmann, opens the volume with a discussion of decadent aestheticism in Wilde and his immediate successors.
Guy Willoughby then examines how Wilde’s imaginative writings anticipate the transformed aesthetic views on display in De Profundis.
Ronald Knowles traces the carnivalesque elements found in Wilde’s acknowledged masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest, after which Michael Patrick Gillespie considers the combination of familiarity and innovation that informs Wilde’s signature comedy.
John Paul Riquelme detects the shadow of Pater in The Picture of Dorian Gray, followed by Christopher S. Nassaar’s reading of Salomé.
Burkhard Niederhoff returns to Earnest and its interweaving of parody and paradox, and James G. Nelson concludes the volume with an analysis of the romantic overtones informing Wilde’s body of work. (from the Editor’s Note)