Loesberg Loesberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 6011423 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Loesberg Loesberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Loesberg |
| FAMILY NAME | Loesberg |
| SIGNATURE | LOESBERG L |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Wildean Interpretation and Formalist Reading
When Oscar Wilde said about himself in De Profundis that “what paradox was to me in the field of thought, perversity became for me in the sphere of passion,” he offered a better way to think about formalist criticism than the limiting one developed in the twentieth century. Usually, we think, paradox is caused by language while perversity entails a moral judgment about acts. Still, the formalist attention to paradox amounts to perversely turning …
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Wildean Interpretation and Formalist Reading
When Oscar Wilde said about himself in De Profundis that “what paradox was to me in the field of thought, perversity became for me in the sphere of passion,” he offered a better way to think about formalist criticism than the limiting one developed in the twentieth century. Usually, we think, paradox is caused by language while perversity entails a moral judgment about acts. Still, the formalist attention to paradox amounts to perversely turning …
Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Criticism (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Formalism (music (1 work) · Gender Studies in Language (1 work) · Interpretation (philosophy (1 work) · Limiting (1 work) · Linguistics (1 work) · Literature (1 work)