Originally published in English in 1989, from a 1980 German
edition, this book provides a comprehensive study of Oscar Wilde's
work. It aims to gain fresh insight into his literary and critical
oeuvre by fully analysing each of his works on the basis of a
textually oriented interpretation, taking equal account of the
biographical and intellectual contexts. Professor Kohl's
starting-point is the thesis that Wilde's identity - both personal
and artistic - can only be adequately described in terms of a
conflict between two opposing forces: individualism and convention.
This conflict colours not only Wilde's use of Romantic and
Victorian images and motifs, but also his modern portrayal of the
individual's alienation from society, the loss of transcendent
values, the sovereignty of subjectivity and autonomous art, and
also his formal experiments with language. This is a penetrating
and highly readable account of Wilde as a 'conformist rebel'.
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