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The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

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Features reviews and reactions, including six diverse critical assessments of Oscar Wilde and his play. This title is accompanied by explanatory annotations and by an appendix of excised portions. It contains a chronology and selected bibliography. Backgrounds includes essays on Wilde and the 1890s by cultural critics.

The Importance of Being Earnest Summary

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Backgrounds includes essays on Wilde and the 1890s by prominent cultural critics Joseph Donohue, Regenia Gagnier, and Karl Beckson. Reviews and Reactions collects contemporary responses to The Importance of Being Earnest, among them George Bernard Shaw's famous dissenting view and the American assessment by H. F.

Essays in Criticism includes six diverse assessments of Wilde and the play by E. H. Mikhail, Camille Paglia, Christopher Craft, Michael Patrick Gillespie, Peter Raby, and Richard Haslam.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

About Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland. Wilde studied at Trinity College in Dublin and at Magdalen College in Oxford, England, before settling down in London and having a long, successful career as a poet, playwright, and author. Wilde is best known for his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and for his satirical play The Importance of Being Earnest. Michael Patrick Gillespie is Professor of English at Florida International University. He is the author of Oscar Wilde and the Poetics of Ambiguity, Branding Oscar Wilde, The Aesthetics of Chaos: Nonlinear Thinking and Contemporary Literary Criticism, Inverted Volumes Improperly Arranged: James Joyce and His Trieste Library, Reading the Book Himself: Narrative Strategies in the Works of James Joyce, The Aesthetics of Chaos, The Myth of an Irish Cinema, James Joyce and the Exilic Imagination, Reading William Kennedy, and Film Appreciation through Genres. His other edited works include the Norton Critical Edition of The Importance of Being Earnest, James Joyce and the Fabrication of an Irish Identity, and Joyce through the Ages: A Non-Linear View.

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GOR010268464
9780393927535
0393927539
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Norton Critical Editions
Used - Like New
Paperback
WW Norton & Co
20060117
224
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