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Oscar Wilde and the Art of Lying

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, (c)2019.Description: 1 online resource (119 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781527524149
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PR5824 .O833 2019
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Contents:
Subject: Utilizing Wilde's own characters ""Vivian"" and ""Cyril,"" this critique in play format begins by discussing the playwright's ideas on the relation of Art to Life, exploring his pronouncements on the artist's true purpose. Wilde's statement about the artist as a ""creator of beauty"", found in his ""Preface to the Picture of Dorian Gray"", is then examined with regard to his last and most popular play, The Importance of Being Earnest. Discussing ...Earnest in extensis, this book discovers whether the elegant artificiality and epigrammatic conceits of contemporary farce prevail as beauty per Wi.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction PR5824 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available on1082981125

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Intro; Contents; Preface; Oscar Wilde and the Art of Lying

Utilizing Wilde's own characters ""Vivian"" and ""Cyril,"" this critique in play format begins by discussing the playwright's ideas on the relation of Art to Life, exploring his pronouncements on the artist's true purpose. Wilde's statement about the artist as a ""creator of beauty"", found in his ""Preface to the Picture of Dorian Gray"", is then examined with regard to his last and most popular play, The Importance of Being Earnest. Discussing ...Earnest in extensis, this book discovers whether the elegant artificiality and epigrammatic conceits of contemporary farce prevail as beauty per Wi.

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