Historical criticism notebook:

This volume contains the newly transcribed and annotated text of one of Oscar Wilde's unpublished notebooks that functioned as a major ante-text for the composition of Wilde's first post-graduate essay, Historical Criticism, written in 1879 as an entry for the Chancellor's English Ess...

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1. Verfasser: Wilde, Oscar 1854-1900 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Smith, Philip E. (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Oxford University Press 2016
Ausgabe:First edition
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Zusammenfassung:This volume contains the newly transcribed and annotated text of one of Oscar Wilde's unpublished notebooks that functioned as a major ante-text for the composition of Wilde's first post-graduate essay, Historical Criticism, written in 1879 as an entry for the Chancellor's English Essay Prize at Oxford. Attempting to win a fellowship at Oxford as a serious scholar, Wilde used the notebook to record his research into modern and classical historians and to formulate language that appears, often in revised form, in the essay. The notebook shows us his practices of research and composition: he often worked on particular historians or issues in sections of adjoining pages, accumulating examples from their works and composing passages describing their exemplary practices and their awareness of issues in historiography. His entries include materials drawn from classical historians and philosophers, for example, Plato, Aristotle, Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius, Tacitus, Livy, Lucian, and Plutarch, as well as mentions and/or materials from modern historians and philosophers such as Giambattista Vico, J.G. Fichte, Victor Cousin, George Grote, G.H. Lewes, Henry T. Buckle, Robert Flint, J.A. Symonds, Alexis de Tocqueville, Hippolyte Taine, Jules Michelet, Herbert Spencer, and Ernest Renan. The notebook not only tells us much about Wilde's practices of composing and editing the language that appears in the essay, it also contains the unused materials Wilde studied and for which he drafted language. For example, Wilde scholars will find scattered throughout the notebook the unused phrases, sentences, and notations that relate to subjects or ideas that Wilde mentions or expands in other notebook entries
Beschreibung:Titel auf dem Umschlag und Buchrücken: Oscar Wilde's historical criticism notebook
Beschreibung:XXXIV, 254 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9780199688012
019968801X

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