Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Positioning Wilde before and after Modernism
Part I
1. Wilde's Romantic Irony
2. Attributing Wilde
3. Performing Wilde
Part II
4. Talking as Performance
5. Phenomenology of Sound: David Bowie
Coda: Public Encounters with Private Bodies; or, Rent Music
Notes
Permissions
Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 Aesthetics, Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 Knowledge Performing arts, Modernism (Literature) Great Britain, Aesthetics, British 19th century, Aesthetics, Modern 20th century, Performing arts Great Britain, Romanticism Great Britain, Bowie, David