According to a French saying, a style is a man (le style est l'homme). So what a personality was O.W? The answer is: a brilliant perverted individualist and aesthete. read more
A discussion of Wilde's distinct style of writing. Oscar Wilde had often spoken of his belief that, in artistic matters, style outweighed sincerity or substance. As such, in his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his attention was therefore paid to form and the nuances of wording in his novel. read more
Oscar Wilde's is a curious modernism where the category of the neo-romantic is very much at work. His humour is also a typically Irish humour. As far as Wilde's plays are concerned, his major style is one of social satire, critiquing social issues, the practice of false manners and hypocrisy, the fraudulent identities, the relation and rapport of the sexes, the social conventions of love and so on. read more