Oscar Wilde: Criticism

Edouard Roditi's critical study of Oscar Wilde, published in 1947, was a pioneering attempt to evaluate a literary reputation distorted by scandal. It addressed the importance of Wilde's ingenious, imaginative, and dialectical thought and how his poetry, novels, plays, and critical writings influenced the shift of English and American literature away from established Romanticism toward Modernism. This first paperbound edition includes three additional chapters on new material about Wilde and the evolving public attitudes about homosexuality. Roditi is an internationally known linguist, scholar, art critic, and author.

Format: Paperback / softback
Publication date: 03 March 2023
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Edouard Roditi's groundbreaking study of Oscar Wilde, originally published in 1947 in the New Directions Makers of Modern Literature Series, aimed to assess a literary reputation that had been heavily influenced by the media's thirst for scandal. By placing biography on the back burner, Roditi focused on the significance of Wilde's ingenious, imaginative, and dialectical thought during his own era, demonstrating how his poetry, novels, plays, and critical writings played a pivotal role in the transition of English and American literature away from established and aging Romanticism toward Modernism. In this first paperbound edition of his insightful and erudite exploration of Wilde, Roditi has included three additional chapters that explore fresh material about Wilde and the evolving public attitudes toward homosexuality since the book's initial publication.

Edouard Roditi, an American who has resided in Paris for an extended period, is a renowned linguist, scholar, art critic, and author and translator of a substantial body of fiction and poetry, criticism, and biography. His collection of witty and exotic short stories, titled The Delights of Turkey, is available under the New Directions imprint.

Weight: 235g
Dimension: 203 x 132 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780811209953
Edition number: Subsequent