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The Decay of Lying: A Dialogue

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'The loss that results to literature in general from this false ideal of our time can hardly be overestimated. People have a careless way of talking about a "born liar," just as they talk about a "born poet." But in both cases they are wrong. Lying and poetry are arts — arts, as Plato saw, not unconnected with each other — and they require the most careful study, the most disinterested devotion. Indeed, they have their technique, just as the more material arts of painting and sculpture have, their subtle secrets of form and colour, their craft-mysteries, their deliberate artistic methods. As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognise the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection. But in modern days while the fashion of writing poetry has become far too common, and should, if possible, be discouraged, the fashion of lying has almost fallen into disrepute. Many a young man starts in life with a natural gift for exaggeration which, if nurtured in congenial and sympathetic surroundings, or by the imitation of the best models, might grow into something really [38] great and wonderful. But, as a rule, he comes to notbing. He either falls into careless habits of accuracy — '

 

 

 

 

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The Nineteenth Century.
Bd. 25, 1889, Januar, S. 35-56.

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The Nineteenth Century   inhaltsanalytische Bibliographie
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Bristow, Joseph u.a. (Hrsg.): Wilde Discoveries. Traditions, Histories, Archives. Toronto u.a. 2013.

Bristow, Joseph / Mitchell, Rebecca N.: Oscar Wilde's 'Cultivated Blindness': Reassessing the Textual and Intellectual History of 'The Decay of Lying'. In: The Review of English Studies 69 (February 2018), S. 94–156.

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Danson, Lawrence: Wilde's Intentions. The Artist in his Criticism. Oxford 1997.

Evangelista, Stefano (Hrsg.): The Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe. London 2010.

Grech, Leanne: Oscar Wilde's Aesthetic Education. The Oxford Classical Curriculum. Cham 2019.

Hänsel-Hohenhausen, Markus von: Die frühe deutschsprachige Oscar-Wilde-Rezeption (1893 - 1906). Bibliographie. 2. Aufl. Egelsbach 1999.

Horrocks, Jamie: Vernon Lee, Oscar Wilde, and the Dialogue of 'New Aesthetics'. In: Nineteenth-Century Prose 40.1 (2013), S. 201-239.

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Lipking, Lawrence: Poet-critics. In: The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Bd. 7: Modernism and the New Criticism. Hrsg. von A. Walton Litz. Cambridge u.a. 2000, S. 439-467.

Martino, Pierpaolo: WILDE NOW. Performance, Celebrity and Intermediality in Oscar Wilde. Cham 2023.

Marcovitch, Heather: The Art of the Pose. Oscar Wilde's Performance Theory. Bern u.a. 2010.

Mendelssohn, Michèle: Making Oscar Wilde. Oxford 2018.

Powell, Kerry u.a. (Hrsg.): Oscar Wilde in Context. Cambridge u.a. 2013.

Waithe, Marcus / White, Claire (Hrsg.): The Labour of Literature in Britain and France, 1830-1910. Authorial Work Ethics. London 2018.

Warner, Eric / Hough, Graham (Hrsg.): Strangeness and Beauty. An Anthology of Aesthetic Criticism 1840–1910. 2 Bde. Cambridge u.a. 2009.

Womack, Peter: Dialogue and Leisure at the Fin de Siècle. In: Cambridge Quarterly 42.2 (2013), S. 134-156.

 

 

Literatur: The Nineteenth Century

King, Andrew / Plunkett, Andrew (Hrsg.): Victorian Print Media. A Reader. Oxford 2005.

King, Andrew u.a. (Hrsg.): The Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals and Newspapers. London u. New York 2019.

Palmegiano, E. M.: Perceptions of the Press in Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals. A Bibliography. London u.a. 2012.

Small, Helen: Liberal Editing in the Fortnightly Review and the Nineteenth Century. In: Authorship in Context. From the Theoretical to the Material. Hrsg. von Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi and Polina Mackay. Basingstoke u.a. 2007, S. 56-71.

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