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THE ART OF THE POSE - HEATHER MARCOVITCH KARTON...

This book revisits Oscar Wilde's major writings through the field of performance studies. Wilde
wrote about performance as a cultural dialectic  as a form of serious and critical play  and as
the basis of a subversive poetics. In his studies at Oxford University  his famous lecture tour
of the United States and Canada  his friendships with famous actresses Sarah Bernhardt and
Lillie Langtry  the writing of his critical essays  The Picture of Dorian Gray  Salome  and his
society comedies  and culminating in his post-prison writings De Profundis and The Ballad of
Reading Gaol  Wilde develops a rich theory of performance that addresses aesthetics  ethics 
identity and individualism. This book also traces Wilde's often-troubled relationship with
late-Victorian society in terms of its attempts to define his public performances by
stereotyping him as both irrelevant and dangerous  from the early newspaper caricatures to its
later description of him as a sexual monster.

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