Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Author: Richard Ellmann

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2013-09-04

Total Pages: 737

ISBN-13: 0804151121

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Winner of both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Oscar Wilde is the definitive biography of the tortured poet and playwright and the last book by renowned biographer and literary critic Richard Ellmann. Ellmann dedicated two decades to the research and writing of this biography, resulting in a complex and richly detailed portrait of Oscar Wilde. Ellman captures the wit, creativity, and charm of the psychologically and sexually complicated writer, as well as the darker aspects of his personality and life. Covering everything from Wilde's rise as a young literary talent to his eventual imprisonment and death in exile with exquisite detail, Ellmann's fascinating account of Wilde's life and work is a resounding triumph.


Essays for Richard Ellmann

Essays for Richard Ellmann

Author: Richard Ellmann

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 534

ISBN-13: 9780773507074

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Richard Ellmann's scholarly work is notable for its striking liveliness and clarity and its genuine illumination of the writers and works with which he dealt. His life of James Joyce, published in 1959, received more commendation and critical praise than any previous literary biography.


Consciousness & the Novel

Consciousness & the Novel

Author: David Lodge

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9780674009493

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Writing with characteristic wit and brio, and employing the insight and acumen of a skilled novelist and critic, Lodge explores the representation of human consciousness in fiction (mainly English and American) in light of recent investigations in the sciences.


A Long the Riverrun

A Long the Riverrun

Author: Richard Ellmann

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780679728283

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A splendid collection of literary essays by "the greatest biographer of the century"--The Sunday Times, London. Ellmann's Oscar Wilde was a tremendous critical success, winning both the NBCC and the Pulitzer Prize last year.


Things Are Against Us

Things Are Against Us

Author: Lucy Ellmann

Publisher: Galley Beggar Press

Published: 2021-06-30

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1913111210

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'There are three kinds of strike I'd recommend: a housework strike, a labour strike, and a sex strike. I can't wait for the first two.' Things Are Against Us is the first collection of essays from Booker Prize-shortlisted Lucy Ellmann. Bold, angry, despairing and very, very funny, these essays cover everything – from matriarchy to environmental catastrophe to Little House on the Prairie. Ellmann calls for a moratorium on air travel, rages against bras, gives Doris Day and Agatha Christie a drubbing, and pleads for sanity in a world that – well, a world that spent four years in the company of Donald Trump, that 'tremendously sick, terrible, nasty, lowly, truly pathetic, reckless, sad, weak, lazy, incompetent, third-rate, clueless, not smart, dumb as a rock, all talk, wacko, zero-chance lying liar'. Things Are Against Us is electric. It's vital. These are essays bursting with energy, and reading them feels like sticking your hand in the mains socket. Lucy Ellmann is the writer we need to guide us through these crazy times.


Ulysses on the Liffey

Ulysses on the Liffey

Author: Richard Ellmann

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 0195016637

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An interpretation of Joyce's masterpiece which illuminates its philosophical and literary significance.


Essays for Richard Ellmann

Essays for Richard Ellmann

Author: Susan Dick

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1989-03-01

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 0773562079

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Ellmann's sensitivity to what it meant to be an artist shaped his work from the outset: "The life of an artist ... differs from the lives of other persons in that its events are becoming artistic sources even as they command his present attention. Instead of allowing each day, pushed back by the next, to lapse into imprecise memory, he shapes again the experiences which have shaped him." Richard Ellmann died in 1987. His life and work have touched the lives of many. Some of the essays in this collection commemorate Richard Ellmann and his committment to Twentieth Century literature: most provide a continuing investigation of the Twentieth Century literature to which he devoted his carrer. Contributors include: Alison Armstrong, Daniel Albright, Christopher Butler, Carol Cantrell, Jonathan Culler, Elizabeth Butler Cullingford, Andonis Decavelles, Rupin Desai, Susan Dick, Terence Diggory, Terry Eagleton, Rosita Fanto, Charles Feidelson, James Flannery, Charles Huttar, Bruce Johnson, John Kelleher, Brendan Kennelly, Frank Kermode, Declan Kiberd, Peter Kuch, Bruce Johnson, James Laughlin, A. Walton Litz, Dominic Manganiello, Ellsworth Mason, Christie McDonald, Dougald McMillan, Sean O'Mordha, Vivian Mercier, Mary T. Reynolds, William K. Robertson, Joseph Ronsley, S.P. Rosenbaum, Ann Saddlemyer, Sylvan Schendler, Daniel Schneider, Fritz Senn, Jon Stallworthy, Lonnie Weatherby, Thomas Whitaker, and Elaine Yarosky.


The Artist as Critic

The Artist as Critic

Author: Oscar Wilde

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 475

ISBN-13: 0226897648

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Reprint. Originally published: New York: Random House, [1969]


Essays

Essays

Author: Oscar Wilde

Publisher: Books for Libraries

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13:

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