书目名称 | WILDE NOW | 副标题 | Performance, Celebri | 编辑 | Pierpaolo Martino | 视频video | | 概述 | Approaches Wilde’s work through a sensibility in which popular culture and literature are in conversation.Interrogates key concepts and categories such as performance, celebrity and consumerism.Highli | 丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .WILDE NOW.reads Oscar Wilde through our now, through a contemporary sensibility (and approach), in which literature and popular culture interrogate and are interrogated by critical concepts and categories such as performance, celebrity, intermediality, and consumerism. This volume exceeds the shape and meaning of a critical study to turn into a drama of five different acts/moments in Wilde’s life and work: his early performances in Dublin, London and Oxford; the 1882 American tour; his successful season of the first half of the 1890s, his prison years and finally his glorious resurrection in contemporary pop culture. Most importantly .WILDE NOW. approaches these moments through contemporary rewritings and performances of “Oscar Wilde” in the fields of cinema, music and literature by such artists as Al Pacino, Rupert Everett, Stephen Fry, Gyles Brandreth, David Hare, David Bowie, Morrissey, Nick Cave, Neil Tennant, Gavin Friday. These artists – through their awareness of the importance of being/playing Oscar in their specific worlds and cultural contexts – will also show us that Wilde can be conceived as a subversive, critical role one might successfully perform and appropriate, no | 出版日期 | Book 2023 | 关键词 | Oscar Wilde; Performance; Celebrity; Intermediality; Popular Culture; Consumerism; Rewriting; Cinema; Pop Mu | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30426-2 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-30428-6 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-30426-2Series ISSN 2946-5133 Series E-ISSN 2946-5141 | issn_series | 2946-5133 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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