Overview
- Approaches Wilde’s work through a sensibility in which popular culture and literature are in conversation
- Interrogates key concepts and categories such as performance, celebrity and consumerism
- Highlights the centrality of adaptations and rewritings in the very process of reading Wilde's life and work
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature (PASTMULI)
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WILDE NOWreads Oscar Wilde through our now, through a contemporary sensibility (and approach), in which literature and popular culture interrogate and are interrogated by critical concepts and categories such as performance, celebrity, intermediality, and consumerism. This volume exceeds the shape and meaning of a critical study to turn into a drama of five different acts/moments in Wilde’s life and work: his early performances in Dublin, London and Oxford; the 1882 American tour; his successful season of the first half of the 1890s, his prison years and finally his glorious resurrection in contemporary pop culture. Most importantly WILDE NOW approaches these moments through contemporary rewritings and performances of “Oscar Wilde” in the fields of cinema, music and literature by such artists as Al Pacino, Rupert Everett, Stephen Fry, Gyles Brandreth, David Hare, David Bowie, Morrissey, Nick Cave, Neil Tennant, Gavin Friday. These artists – through their awareness of the importance of being/playing Oscar in their specific worlds and cultural contexts – will also show us that Wilde can be conceived as a subversive, critical role one might successfully perform and appropriate, now more than ever.
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"Wilde Now is an important contribution to the study of Oscar Wilde as a proto-postmodernist and his influence on current cultural and artistic styles and trends. … The richness of the research and scholarship that went into the creation of this study is evident in all of the chapters. The analysis of the Wildean strand in modern music is exceptionally rewarding. Wilde Now will undoubtedly be of value to both new and established scholars of Wilde’s life and literary oeuvre." (Graham Price, Irish Studies Review, April 4, 2025)
‘WILDE NOW is an important contribution to the study of Oscar Wilde as a proto-postmodernist. With this book, Pierpaolo Martino has greatly enhanced our knowledge of the importance of Wilde’s life and works to the development of contemporary music, literature and film. The richness of the research and scholarship that went into the creation of this study is evident in all of the chapters. The analysis of the Wildean strand in modern music is exceptionally rewarding. This volume will undoubtedly be of value to both new and established scholars of Wilde’s life and literary oeuvre’.-Graham Price, Media Studies Lecturer, NUI Maynooth, Author of Oscar Wilde and Contemporary Irish Drama: Learning to be Oscar’s Contemporary.
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About the author
Pierpaolo Martino is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Bari, Italy. He is the author of Mark the Music. The Language of Music in English Literature from Shakespeare to Salman Rushdie (2012), and co-editor of Oscar Wilde in the Third Millennium: Approaches, Directions, Re-evaluations (2022).
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: WILDE NOW
Book Subtitle: Performance, Celebrity and Intermediality in Oscar Wilde
Authors: Pierpaolo Martino
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30426-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-30425-5Published: 09 May 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-30428-6Published: 10 May 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-30426-2Published: 08 May 2023
Series ISSN: 2946-5133
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5141
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 234
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Adaptation Studies, Performing Arts, Celebrity Studies, Popular Culture , Music