What if our strongest urges could be divested of their power to compel yet retain their power to fascinate us? What if our most basic appetites could be translated from the realm of bodily necessity to the sphere of artistic freedom? Jeff Nunokawa traces the variety of social pr…
What if our strongest urges could be divested of their power to compel yet retain their power to fascinate us? What if our most basic appetites could be translated from the realm of bodily necessity to the sphere of artistic freedom? Jeff Nunokawa traces the variety of social pr…
A celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. It shows us why, over a hundred years after his death, people of every age and from different walks of life are drawn to Wilde's dazzling repartee and the wicked brilliance o…
A celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. It shows us why, over a hundred years after his death, people of every age and from different walks of life are drawn to Wilde's dazzling repartee and the wicked brilliance o…
Branding Oscar Wilde traces the development and perception of Wilde's public persona and examines the impact of interpretations of his writing. Through calculated behavior, provocative language, and arresting dress, Wilde self-consciously created a brand initially recognized by …
Branding Oscar Wilde traces the development and perception of Wilde's public persona and examines the impact of interpretations of his writing. Through calculated behavior, provocative language, and arresting dress, Wilde self-consciously created a brand initially recognized by …
"Taking its cue from Baudelaire's important essay 'The Painter of Modern Life,' in which Baudelaire imagines the modern artist as a "man of the world," this collection of essays presents Oscar Wilde as a "man of the world" who eschewed provincial concerns, cultural conventions, …
