Oscar Wilde: Criticism

by Edouard Roditi

Edouard Roditi's critical study of Oscar Wilde, originally published in 1947 in New Directions' Makers of Modern Literature Series, was a pioneering attempt to evaluate a literary reputation long distorted by the journalistic appetite for scandal. Relegating biography to a back seat, Roditi addressed the important of Wilde's ingenious, imaginative, and dialectical thought in his own time and showed how his poetry, novels, plays, and critical writings...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811209954
• ISBN13: 9780811209953
• Release Date: November 1986
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.9"