5/18/2023 0 Comments The tales of oscar wilde![]() ![]() Each of the nine chapters begins with a detailed review of the criticism of the fairy tale that is the chapter's focus, then explains the author's deviation from the standard view of that tale through the inclusion of Irish Catholic history. ![]() He starts with an introduction that explores "the critical history of the fairy tales and attempt to explain why they have received relatively little attention" (1). is considered a didactic and conservative form" (1). Killeen observes that Wilde's two volumes of fairy tales, The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888) and A House of Pomegranates (1891), have been marginal to his canon in part because they do not fit into the usual view of Wilde as "a subversive writer" and in part "because children's literature. On the faculty at Trinity College, Dublin, Killeen provides a late nineteenth- century Irish Catholic context for Oscar Wilde's fairy tales as a way to better understand them. ![]()
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