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ENG 156: Oscar Wilde: Artist, Martyr, Celebrity


Units: 4

Explores the plays, philosophical writings, poetry, journalism, literary criticism, and fiction of the nineteenth century’s most flamboyant writer. Studies Wilde’s life and legend, his literary influences, his critics, and his rebirth in the twentieth century as a “gay martyr.”

Course Details
Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0

Normal Letter Grade only

GE Requirements
  • Upper Division: Writing in the Discipline
  • Approaches to Knowledge: Literary and Textual Analysis
  • Approaches to Knowledge: Societies and Cultures of the Past
  • Intellectual Experience: Ethics

Requisites and Restrictions
Prerequisite Courses: WRI 010 or equivalent exam
Open only to the following class level(s):
  • Sophomore
  • Junior
  • Senior

Instructor Permission Required: No


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