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jhameiaHrm. Wow.
I knew I loved Oscar Wilde for his paradoxes and his comedic spirit, but I just read An Ideal Husband. Maybe I'm just being sentimental (considering my ex-boyfriend has just opened communication with me again) or maybe I'm just depressed, but that ending made me cry. I just love happy endings where people in love make grotesquely adorable declarations to each other. And where people in love are equals and honest with each other.
Salome was interesting, but a bit Theatre of the Absurd-ish for me. For a single act, there's plenty of belief suspension needed. I'd find it a bit of a challenge to do, really, because there're so many characters and thus a lot of people hanging around for no real reason except to wait for their lines. It's a bit bizarre. But one must remember, Oscar Wilde detested the real.
I suppose I shall have to get back to the Decay of Lying and the Artist as Critic. Then I can really get cracking on this research paper. I need to talk to Dr. Perkin about the research material too. And I really need to refine my research questions. The proposal paper was really just me throwing out all my ideas just so I could get 200-300 words on paper, so it turned out really quite horrid.
From questioning Wilde's principles and whether they apply themselves all the time to his works, I was wondering maybe I could think about his aesthetics and applying his aesthetics to himself. But I also want to question how important those aesthetics are with regards to morality. The Happy Prince, the Importance of Being Ernest, An Ideal Husband... all these have some really strong moral themes regarding honesty and although the superficial in these stories are charming, it's the morality tale which hits home the hardest. Even Dorian Gray had a moral. (It's just not terribly overt.) Really. Oscar Wilde could talk himself blue about cleverness and being pretty and carpe diem, but it's not terribly well reflected in his works so far.
I don't know yet. I'll have to read the articles I borrowed.
I also have some really awesome books! I managed to get The Aesthetics of Self-Invention: Oscar Wilde to David Bowie. It's like - Evolution! (The other day it was Men in Makeup: David Bowie to The Killers.) I also have Oscar Wilde: The Poetics of Ambiguity. It looks like it covers some things I want to say.
Let me read the critical essays first. Perhaps I really ought to be reading all of his works, just to make sure my bases, but I'm sure Dr. Perkin will go "*gasp* no!"
I knew I loved Oscar Wilde for his paradoxes and his comedic spirit, but I just read An Ideal Husband. Maybe I'm just being sentimental (considering my ex-boyfriend has just opened communication with me again) or maybe I'm just depressed, but that ending made me cry. I just love happy endings where people in love make grotesquely adorable declarations to each other. And where people in love are equals and honest with each other.
Salome was interesting, but a bit Theatre of the Absurd-ish for me. For a single act, there's plenty of belief suspension needed. I'd find it a bit of a challenge to do, really, because there're so many characters and thus a lot of people hanging around for no real reason except to wait for their lines. It's a bit bizarre. But one must remember, Oscar Wilde detested the real.
I suppose I shall have to get back to the Decay of Lying and the Artist as Critic. Then I can really get cracking on this research paper. I need to talk to Dr. Perkin about the research material too. And I really need to refine my research questions. The proposal paper was really just me throwing out all my ideas just so I could get 200-300 words on paper, so it turned out really quite horrid.
From questioning Wilde's principles and whether they apply themselves all the time to his works, I was wondering maybe I could think about his aesthetics and applying his aesthetics to himself. But I also want to question how important those aesthetics are with regards to morality. The Happy Prince, the Importance of Being Ernest, An Ideal Husband... all these have some really strong moral themes regarding honesty and although the superficial in these stories are charming, it's the morality tale which hits home the hardest. Even Dorian Gray had a moral. (It's just not terribly overt.) Really. Oscar Wilde could talk himself blue about cleverness and being pretty and carpe diem, but it's not terribly well reflected in his works so far.
I don't know yet. I'll have to read the articles I borrowed.
I also have some really awesome books! I managed to get The Aesthetics of Self-Invention: Oscar Wilde to David Bowie. It's like - Evolution! (The other day it was Men in Makeup: David Bowie to The Killers.) I also have Oscar Wilde: The Poetics of Ambiguity. It looks like it covers some things I want to say.
Let me read the critical essays first. Perhaps I really ought to be reading all of his works, just to make sure my bases, but I'm sure Dr. Perkin will go "*gasp* no!"