EAN: 9783954893133

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING A READER A REVISION OF ...

This book explores Wilde's works from the hypothesis that they call upon the active
participation of the reader in the production of meaning. It has a twofold objective: first  it
shows that Wilde's emphasis on the creative role of the audience in his critical writings makes
him conceive the reader as a co-creator in the construction of meaning. Second  it analyses the
strategies which Wilde employs to impel the reader to collaborate in the creation of meaning of
his literary works and casts light upon the social criticism derived from these. The
examination of Wilde s writings reveals how he gradually combined more sophisticated techniques
that encouraged the reader's dynamic role with the progressive exploitation of self-advertising
strategies for professional purposes. These allowed the commercial Oscar to make his works
successful among the Victorian public without betraying the literary Wilde s aesthetic
principles. The present study re-evaluates Wilde as a critic and as a writer. It demonstrates
that  while Wilde the myth was ahead of his time in many ways  Wilde the ARTIST anticipated in
his aesthetic theory various themes which occupy contemporary literary theoreticians. Thus  it
may contribute to give him the status he rightly deserves in the history of literature.

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