Aesthetics of Self-Invention: Oscar Wilde To David Bowie
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Aesthetics of Self-Invention: Oscar Wilde To David Bowie
By (Author) Shelton Waldrep
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st November 2004
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Literary studies: plays and playwrights
828.809
Physical Properties
Paperback
232
Width 149mm, Height 229mm, Spine 13mm
Description
Whether as a gay man or as a postmodern performance artist ahead of his time, Wilde ultimately emerges here as the embodiment of the twentieth-century media-savvy artist who is both subject and object of the aesthetic and economic systems in which he is enmeshed.
Author Bio
Shelton Waldrep is associate professor of English at the University of Southern Maine. He is the coauthor of Inside the Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World (1995) and editor of The Seventies: The Age of Glitter in Popular Culture (2000).
