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1. Serious Triviality : A Serious Societal Critique in a Trivial Setting in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest
Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)Sammanfattning : In the late Victorian era, the British upper-class seemed to have set up their own standard of morals where truthfulness and religious conviction gave way for manners and appearance. Oscar Wilde was an outspoken socialist and talented author who shared his critique towards the ills of this society within his literary works. LÄS MER
2. ‘The Fisherman and his Soul’ Revalued : A Significant and Singular Fairy Tale in Oscar Wilde’s Work
Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenSammanfattning : The period 1889-1891 has been regarded as crucial in Oscar Wilde’s (1854-1900) career. Having been somewhat unsuccessful as a writer during the 1880s, and turning to journalism to earn a living, Wilde in this period saw the publication of his dialogues which led to his sole novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (hereafter, Dorian), serialised in 1890 before being republished as a novel in 1891. LÄS MER
3. Rediscovering Beatrice and Bianca: A Study of Oscar Wilde’s Tragedies The Duchess of Padua (1883) and A Florentine Tragedy (1894)
Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenSammanfattning : Towards the end of the 19th century Oscar Wilde wrote the four society plays that would become his most famous dramatical works: Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). The plays combined characteristic Wildean witticisms with cunning social criticism of Victorian society, using stereotypical characters such as the dandy, the fallen woman and the “ideal” woman to mock the double moral and strict social expectations of Victorian society. LÄS MER
4. Den allvarliga komedin : En studie i Wildes The Importance of Being Earnest
Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetikSammanfattning : This essay explores the techniques utilized by Oscar Wilde in his comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, which function to communicate to his audience, serious standpoints on relevant contemporary debates. Considering both the conventions of comedy and the societal background of Victorian Great Britain, I try to apply the theories presented in The reading process: a phenomenological approach by Wolfgang Iser – in order to see how Wilde uses e. LÄS MER
5. Dualism in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest
Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerSammanfattning : Abstract: In this essay I explore the dualism in Oscar Wilde’s most famous society comedy The Importance of Being Earnest. My thesis is that Wilde employed the well-established Late Victorian concept of double identity as well as a dualistic theme in the play, revealed in the language and in the strategies of lying, in order to exploit the hypocrisy of the society, i. LÄS MER
