Essays about: "the prince - oscar wilde"

Found 2 essays containing the words the prince - oscar wilde.

1. 1. The Happy Prince : A Paradoxical Aesthetic Tale and a Dual Critique of Victorian Times

   University essay from Högskolan Kristianstad/Fakulteten för lärarutbildning

   Author : Quentin Caizergues; [2020]
   Keywords : Oscar Wilde; The Happy Prince; fairy tale; aestheticism; moral standards; social satire; Victorian society; Christian values;

   Abstract : This essay highlights The Happy Prince’s advantageous use of conventions of the fairy tale genre to stress critical issues of the Victorian period: the challenge of the established Christian socio-moral order, the rising of the bourgeois industrial society, and the advent of aestheticism as a response. Using the close reading technique supported by the Victorian socio-historical background, the analysis establishes that the criticism proceeds by double associations. READ MORE

3. 2. Oscar Wilde’s “The Happy Prince” : The Hidden Messages and the Debate on the Target Audience

   University essay from Engelska

   Author : Layla Bseiso; [2007]
   Keywords : Wilde; Oscar Wilde; The Happy Prince; Fairytales; Children s literature;

   Abstract : Oscar Wilde’s fairytales have been read to children for more than a century. Nevertheless, since the time of their publication in 1888 and 1891, the target audience of The Happy Prince and Other Tales and A House of Pomegranates have been the concern of critics. READ MORE