The Pleasures of Imitation: Gabriel Tarde, Oscar Wilde, and João do Rio in Brazil's Long Fin de Siècle

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Braga-Pinto
Keyword(s):  
Oscar Wilde ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Fin De Siècle

The Response of the Late Victorian Feminist Press to Same-Sex Desire Controversies

2019 ◽  
pp. 542-554
Author(s):  
Molly Youngkin
Keyword(s):  
Oscar Wilde ◽  
The Other ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Editorial Bias ◽  
Heterosexual Women ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Race And Sexuality ◽  
Amy Levy

Molly Youngkin’s essay investigates the heterosexism of a fin de siècle feminist newspaper, the Women’s Penny Paper (1894–99, later retitled the Women’s Herald and the Woman’s Signal), highlighting its treatment of three controversies: the Oscar Wilde trials, the death of poet Amy Levy, and the emergence of Sappho as a model of lesbian new womanhood. When the paper did address these controversies it ‘reshaped narratives about this [same-sex] desire to fit its own heterosexist agenda,’ responded in a disapproving way, or avoided a discussion of sexuality entirely (p. 543). The overall effect of this editorial bias was to pursue an ‘overarching agenda of advocating for heterosexual women’ and to reinforce social purity debates about ‘the effects of men’s sexual practices on heterosexual women and their families’ (p. 544). These feminist papers thus constructed the ‘other’ in ways that upheld restrictive conventions of race and sexuality while claiming to be vehicles of progressive thought.

Decadence

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raphaël Ingelbien
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
French Literature ◽  
Oscar Wilde ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Walter Pater ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
Art Historians ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Art For Art's Sake

Decadence was a word used to refer, often disparagingly, to late-19th-century European writers and artists whose credo of ‘‘art for art’s sake’’ (Dictionary of Art Historians) went hand in hand with an open disdain for morality and for the values of their own societies. Often associated with modern French literature and its influence, decadent tendencies were observed in many different countries. In England, its main representatives were Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) and various figures who were inspired by French examples and by the aestheticism of Walter Pater (1839–1894). Its main features were a cult of beauty, refinement and artificiality; a fascination for the paradoxical, the bizarre, the exotic and the perverse; and an iconoclastic attitude towards dominant values. While manifestations of decadence did earn a place in fin-de-siècle London culture, the phenomenon did not survive the spectacular fall of Oscar Wilde in 1895, but some of its ideas and attitudes point forward to modernism.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Weir
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Urban Geography ◽  
Oscar Wilde ◽  
Charles Baudelaire ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Period 1880 ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Nineteenth Century France ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Aesthetic Expression

The Introduction first considers the etymological and historical meanings of decadence. Different interpretations of the word “decadence” point to historical decline, social decay, and aesthetic inferiority. Decadence today may be best understood as the aesthetic expression of a conflicted attitude toward modernity, which first arose in nineteenth-century France and is best expressed by the author Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867). Decadence then “travelled” to London, where Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) became the preeminent decadent writer. Other metropolitan centers that made up part of the urban geography of decadence during the fifty-year period (1880–1930) of decadence’s peak were fin-de-siècle Vienna and Weimar Berlin.

scholarly journals Portugal's First Queer Novel: Rediscovering Visconde de Vila-Moura's Nova Safo (1912)

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna M. Klobucka
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Oscar Wilde ◽  
Cultural Relevance ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Marginal Status

This study seeks to recover the novel Nova Safo (1912) by Visconde de Vila-Moura from the marginal status to which it has been consigned in Portuguese literary history by arguing for its momentous cultural relevance as Portugal’s first queer novel. Given the extremely limited number and scope of existing critical approaches to the text, my reading is oriented by a reparative strategy that aims, first and foremost, to remedy its precarious status as an archival object. I describe the novel's inchoate and cluttered collection of references, images, and storylines as a countercultural scrapbook of queer feeling, ruled by an antiquarian sensibility, whose structures of cohesion belong less to the realm of formal aesthetics than to the sphere of homophilic affective epistemology. Further, I chart Nova Safo's intersecting gestures of transitive embodiment—transnational, transgender, and transracial—by discussing the novel’s mournful evocation of three recently departed icons of fin-de-siècle literary culture: Oscar Wilde, Renée Vivien, and João da Cruz e Sousa.

Oscar Wilde and the Radical Politics of the Fin de Siécle

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deaglán Ó Donghaile
Keyword(s):  
Political Identity ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Oscar Wilde ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Radical Politics ◽  
Progressive Politics ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Ideological Commitment ◽  
New Interpretation

Oscar Wilde’s political identity informed his literary writings, which were motivated by his revolutionary outlook as much as they were driven by his Paterian “passion for sensations”. Addressing his radical engagements with anarchism, socialism and anticolonial thought, this monograph provides a new interpretation of Oscar Wilde’s aestheticism and of his major works by emphasising the importance of progressive politics to his positioning and self-identification within late Victorian literary culture. Consisting of previously unpublished material, it provides a politicised and historicised account of Wilde’s key works by situating them within the framework of his very pronounced – but to date critically under-recognised and as yet untheorised - ideological commitment to these radical political causes. This book interprets Wilde’s better-known works against the important political contexts addressed in his correspondence, reviews, lectures and journalism, and through his personal relationships with contemporary radicals.

Wilde and wilder: fin de siècle – fin de millénaire

2001 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
MANFRED PFISTER
Keyword(s):  
Oscar Wilde ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Fin De Siècle

This paper traces the presence of fin de siècle Wilde in the postmodernist fin de millénaire a century after his death. He is still alive, not only with scholars and critics but, more importantly, with a wider public and with writers and film makers who keep re-inventing him in their novels, plays and films, radicalizing him into a postmodernist avant la lettre. This ‘wilder’ Wilde is studied here in recent biopics, bioplays and biofictions, such as Peter Ackroyd's The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde or Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love, as well as in re-writings of his texts, such as in Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw or Mark Ravenhill's Handbag.

scholarly journals Narcissus and femme fatale

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Χριστίνα Σεραφείμ
Keyword(s):  
Oscar Wilde ◽  
Vladimir Nabokov ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Femme Fatale ◽  
Frank Wedekind ◽  
Ludwig Tieck ◽  
Joseph Von Eichendorff ◽  
Fin De Siècle

Λολίτα, Λόλα, Λουλού: Κυρίες με τέτοιου είδους υποκοριστικά ονόματα τις συναντάει κανείς συνήθως ως πλανεύτρες ακαταμάχητης ομορφιάς στη Λογοτεχνία, την Τέχνη και τον Κινηματογράφο. Και όμως υφίσταται το ερώτημα εάν υπάρχει πραγματικά μια κάποια τέχνη της αποπλάνησης ή εάν η ομορφιά – όπως λέει ο λαός – εξαρτάται αποκλειστικά από τη ματιά του παρατηρητή. Μια απάντηση σε αυτό το ερώτημα υπόσχεται να δώσει η ανάλυση των ακόλουθων έργων του Ρομαντισμό, της περιόδου του Fin de Siècle και της Λογοτεχνίας και του Κινηματογράφου του 20ού αιώνα, με θέμα την αποπλάνηση. Τα έργα έχουν ως κεντρική ηρωίδα μία γυναίκα πλανεύτρα και έναν – συνήθως άντρα – πλανεμένο ήρωα. Κοινό χαρακτηριστικό σχεδόν όλων των ηρωίδων είναι ότι κατέχουν έκαστες τεχνικές αποπλάνησης: μπορούν να τραγουδάνε, να χορεύουν και να ποζάρουν άριστα. Οι ρομαντικές διηγήσεις είναι οι εξής: "Der Runenberg" (1804) του Ludwig Tieck, "Das Marmorbild" (1818) του Joseph von Eichendorff και δύο διηγήσεις από το ρεπερτόριο του E.T.A. Hoffmann: "Das öde Haus" (1817) και "Der goldne Topf" (1813/1814). Παραδείγματα από την περίοδο του Fin de Siècle είναι τα δράματα "Salome" (1893) του Oscar Wilde και "Lulu" (1913) του Frank Wedekind. Ως σύγχρονο παράδειγμα επιλέχθηκε το μυθιστόρημα σκάνδαλο και κλασικό έργο της παγκόσμιας λογοτεχνίας "Lolita" (1955) του Vladimir Nabokov. Ταινίες καλτ που δεν πρέπει να λείπουν από τη φιλμογραφία μίας εργασία περί γυναικείας αποπλάνησης είναι: "Der Blaue Engel" (1930) του Joseph von Sternberg, "Orpheus" (1939) του Jean Cocteaus και "Carmen" (1983) του Carlos Saura. Κεντρική ιδέα της διατριβής είναι ότι η θηλυκότητα καθ’ εαυτή – και ακόμα περισσότερο η αποπλανητική – δεν υφίσταται, αλλά αποτελεί ένα κατασκεύασμα, μία φαντασίωση, μία προβολή ή είναι ακόμα και αποτέλεσμα σκηνοθεσίας. Αρχική ιδέα είναι ότι οι θηλυκές μορφές λειτουργούν συνήθως ως καθρέφτισμα του ανδρικού πόθου αποτελώντας μονάχα προβολές επιθυμίας και φόβου. Στην αιτιολόγηση του ερευνητικού στόχου η φιγούρα του νάρκισσου αποκτάει ένα διπλό ρόλο: από τη μία το μοτίβο αντικατοπτρίζει την αυτο-ποθούμενη ματιά και τη σχετιζόμενη κατασκευή της θηλυκότητας, από την άλλη ο νάρκισσος λειτουργεί ως σύμβολο μιας τέχνης που παρατηρεί τον εαυτό της και έτσι πολλαπλασιάζεται.

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