Un opéra français d’après la Salomé de Wilde, l’appropriation d’un drame by Déborah Bonin

“…Evoked and revisited numerous times over the centuries since its origin in the Bible, the story of Salome was approached in a completely innovative way by Oscar Wilde at the end of the nineteenth century. By placing the young Judean princess at the heart of the drama and using, in keeping with other symbolist authors, language resembling a musical dialogue, Wilde’s play inspired a number of musicians including Richard Strauss, Alexandre Glazounov and the French composer, Antoine Mariotte.What were the reasons for Mariotte’s enthusiasm for his English contemporary’s play ? …”
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Author’s “Ego” in “The Ballad of the Reading Gaol” by Marika Tonyan

“…Oscar Wilde’s poem “The Ballad of the Reading Gaol” contains various narrative perspectives which convey the author’s and the protagonist’s points of view. …”
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L’œuvre du romancier Alan Hollinghurst : contre-épopée anglaise et généalogie d’une culture alternative by Georges Letissier

“…If male homosexuality had been treated before, notably in the decadent age with the so-called “Uranians” it was often in an oblique or metaphorical way, as with Oscar Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray (1890-1891) or Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897). …”
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Kunstnerkritikeren. Johan Rohde, maleriet og kritikken by Signe Havsteen

“…(Diskussionen vedrørende kunstneren som kritiker var ikke enestående for Johan Rohde på dette tidspunkt. Oscar Wilde udgav nogenlunde samtidig essayet ”The Critic as Artist” (1891), hvori han leverer et forsvar for det, man kunne kalde en “kritikkens æstetik” (Wilde 2007)). …”
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Language Is a “Quite Useless” Tool: A Rejoinder to Fedorenko, Piantadosi, and Gibson’s “Language Is Primarily a Tool for Communication Rather Than Thought” by Jeffrey Watumull

“…Contrary to the prevailing assumption that language is “primarily a tool for communication rather than thought”, I argue that language is, to invoke Oscar Wilde, “quite useless”. Arguing from aesthetic philosophy and the minimalist program for linguistic theory, I conject that language, like art, is not “for” anything—it simply is, conforming to aesthetic rather than utilitarian principles. …”
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Lady Windermere syndrome: an inappropriate eponym for an increasingly important condition by Kasthoori, J.J., Liam, C.K., Wastie, M.L.

“…Although termed the Lady Windermere syndrome, the name does not correspond to the character in Oscar Wilde's play; hence the eponym is not widely used.…”

Drama for Students : Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Commonly Studied Dramas. by Hacht, Anne Marie, editor 651893, Gale Group (Online service) 651863

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“Civis romana sum”. La Londra intertestuale di Bernardine Evaristo by Samanta Trivellini

“…Evaristo’s sources are both classical – Latin poetry, proverbs, mottos, myths, as well as material culture – and modern – for example, Oscar Wilde’s perspective on history informs the revisionist intent of the novel.This article aims to examine the role of quotations and intertextual echoes in the development of the storyline and in the dialectic between past and present. …”
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“You are certainly my best friend” – Translating adverbs of evidential certainty in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Protopopescu Daria

“…The present article focuses on the analysis of how adverbs of evidential certainty are translated into Romanian in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. Drawing on previous work, we argue that adverbs of certainty exhibit different interpretations function of their context of occurrence and their position in the clause. …”
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Szczęśliwy książę Jana Dormana jako autoarchiwum by Magdalena Rewerenda

“…The paper proposes to study the documentation of Jan Dorman’s production based on Oscar Wilde’s Happy Prince as a model for Jan Dorman’s thinking about a connection and a feedback loop between theatre and archive. …”
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“Verde di migrazione”. L’estetica perturbante dello straniamento ne La mano che non mordi di Ornela Vorpsi by Emma Bond

“…Nella presente novella, un tale incontro con un’estetica perturbante (eco dell’episodio parallelo nel Ritratto di Dorian Gray di Oscar Wilde) si allinea con l’esperienza del ritorno dei migranti al loro paese d’origine, e crea una schiera di personaggi segnati persino fisicamente dalla perdita della stabilità precedente della loro identità.…”
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Values and imperfections of the English Restoration plays by Andrejević Ana M.

“…Preserving and highlighting these dramatic elements, the dramatists of the Restoration have influenced the successors of a typical British comedy that will come to life again, in its true and pure comic form, in the works of Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde.…”
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From Text, to Myth, to Meme: Penny Dreadful and Adaptation by Alison Lee, Frederick D. King

“…Challenging linear and genetic models of adaptation, Penny Dreadful transforms Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818, 1831), Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890, 1891), and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) into vehicles of cultural transmission: memes that have come to redefine the viewer’s relationship to Victorian literature and culture as a myth of modernity.…”
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Mishima, homosexualidad y esteticismo by José Ricardo Chaves

“…Se plantean, además, las similitudes existentes en la obra El retrato de Dorian Gray de Oscar Wilde y la novela El color prohibido. Finalmente, se hace una lectura del lugar que ocupa la belleza, desde el punto de vista de los valores estéticos, en la novela El pabellón de oro.…”
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Entre velos: Maya para contrabajo by Rosa María Rodríguez Hernández

“…Maya para contrabajo se materializa a partir de una imagen de Pepe Romero, cuyo texto interpreta a La decadencia de la mentira de Oscar Wilde. La estructura de Maya es binaria, especular y asimétrica; su poética obedece al juego verdad/mentira que subyace en la obra artística y en la vivencia del artista. …”
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Escritores adandinados by Marcos Antonio de Menezes

“…O dandismo marcou a criação literária de Charles Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde e João do Rio. Para Baudelaire, a máscara foi subterfúgio, e a do dândi, se de um lado era artifício, de outro parece ter-lhe aderido à pele, só sendo removida para dar lugar a outras, como a do flâneur, do trapeiro, do apache e do boêmio. …”
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“As Bryusov’s Equal”: M.F. Likiardopulo’s Letters to V.Ya. Bryusov by Alexander V. Lavrov

“…An active journalist, translator of new English prose (Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells), from 1906 Likiardopulo worked as a secretary of the Symbolist magazine “Vesy” (1904–1909), the actual editor of which was Bryusov. …”
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Dos problemas jurídicos alrededor de las fotografías: la originalidad y el derecho a la intimidad by Natalia Tobón Franco, Eduardo Varela Pezzano

“…Sin embargo, a finales del siglo XIX, cuando se presentó en Estados Unidos una disputa sobre la titularidad de los derechos de autor sobre unas fotografías en las que aparecía Oscar Wilde, una corte norteamericana admitió, en una decisión que se convirtió en precedente judicial, que algunas fotografías son verdaderas obras de arte pues su autor, el fotógrafo, introduce en ellas todo su ingenio y  creatividad al escoger el color, la decoración y la luz, entre otros. …”
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Dostoevsky in English Literature by M.A. Golovyashkina

“…Among them: Matthew Arnold, George Gissing, George Meredith, Oscar Wilde and others. The article describes the interpretation of their opinions about the great Russian writer’s works and on the degree of his influence on the literary trends of his contemporaries. …”
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Re-Envisioning the Picture of Dorian Gray Through Immanuel Kant’s Moral Philosophy by Halilcan Koçak

“…One of the most prominent novels of the Victorian era, The Picture of Dorian Gray has been a focus of both literary and philosophical studies since its publication. Oscar Wilde not only criticizes Victorian society through unique characters of the novel but also investigates ethics. …”
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