Essays about: "Oscar Wilde"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 24 essays containing the words Oscar Wilde.
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11. Beautiful corruption: the portrayal of beauty in The picture of Dorian Gray and Lady Audley's secret
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : The novels Lady Audley’s Secret and The Picture of Dorian Gray both feature a beautiful but corrupted character as protagonist, the corruption of whom only gets revealed slowly to the reader while the fascination for the characters’ beauty is vanishing. This essay is investigating how this beauty is used in the two novels respectively and gives a general overview of contemporary readers’ perception of characters, based on 19th-century novels and reviews of the time. READ MORE
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12. Wilde's Women : A feminist study of the female characters in Oscar Wilde’s comedies of manners: Lady Windermere’s Fan, A woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband
University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälleAbstract : Towards the end of the 19th century, Wilde produced the three comedies that I will focus on in this essay. These plays, Lady Windermere’s Fan, A woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband, are all comedies of manners: intelligent dramatic comedies satirising contemporary fashionable circles of society and its manners, as well as social expectations. READ MORE
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13. Hysterics and Prophets: : Gender Fluidity and Sexual Transgression in Oscar Wilde´s Salomé
University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/EngelskaAbstract : .... READ MORE
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14. The split human mind and the portrayal of good and evil in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde & Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
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15. Literature, a Gateway to New Worlds : Encouraging Aesthetic Reading through Transactional, Reader Response and Envisionment Theories and Metods
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : The purpose of this essay has been to demonstrate that increased use of aesthetic reading inthe Swedish Upper Secondary EFL classroom would lead to several benefits to the students. To do this I have given examples of three didactical theories and methods that could be used in combination for this purpose. READ MORE