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The Oscar Wilde Society
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THE OSCHOLARS happily continues
its cousinly association with the Oscar Wilde Society. The Society now has
its own website, www.oscarwildesociety.co.uk, and this contains a membership form which can be copied
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Donald Mead, Chairman of the Society, writes: |
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The Oscar Wilde Society is a literary society devoted to the congenial appreciation of Oscar Wilde. It is a non profit-making organisation which aims to promote knowledge, appreciation and study of Wilde's life, personality and works. It organises lectures, readings and discussions, including author's lunches and dinners, and visits to places in Great Britain and overseas associated with Wilde. The Society's Annual General Meeting is held in London, and the annual Birthday Dinner takes place at Simpsons-in-the-Strand, London. The Society's most recent events are reported in Intentions, the Society's newsletter. |
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The Society issues to its members a valuable print
journal, The Wildean, and a Newsletter, Intentions, the costs
of which are covered solely by membership subscriptions. |
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New members are very welcome. The current annual
individual subscription ( |
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Contacts for the Society are given below. |
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The Society's Journal of Oscar Wilde Studies–The Wildean–is published twice a year (in January and July), edited by Donald Mead. It contains features on a variety of subjects relating to Wilde, including articles, reviews and correspondence. |
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The Wildean warmly welcomes contributions both from established writers and from new writers. |
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The Society's newsletter–Intentions–is published about six times a year. Edited by Michael Seeney, it gives information about the Society's forthcoming events, and details of public performances of Wildëan interest. New publications are noted–these may also be the subject of full reviews in The Wildean. Intentions also regularly prints illustrated reports of Oscar Wilde Society events and snippets of out of the way Oscariana. |
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The Wildean Tables of Contents and Guidance for Submissions. |
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THE OSCHOLARS has since its beginning published the Table of Contents for each new issue of The Wildean, and will continue to do so, catching up with earlier issues in between times. Thirty-three editions of The Wildean have now been published. A Combined Table of Contents of the whole set are published by us on its own webpage. The order is alphabetical: author, then of article; articles contributed pseudonymously by the late Bindon Russell have been identified. Each new issue of THE OSCHOLARS carries a link to this Table by way of clicking on The Wildean logo below. The Wildean’s guidance for submissions, formerly published in full here, may now be found on that same page. |
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A short descriptive piece by Donald Mead about each issue of The Wildean is published with the ToCs in THE OSCHOLARS and a table indicating in which issue these are to be found is given with The Wildean’s combined Table of Contents. |
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Contributions to future issues of The Wildean are invited, both articles and shorter items— reviews, notes and correspondence. Guidelines for submissions are given on the Society’s website. Articles should be sent to the Editor at the address given below. |
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On The Wildean’s ToC page can also be found a link to the ToC of the Wild about Wilde newsletter, now regrettably no longer published, compiled for THE OSCHOLARS by its editor and publisher Carmel Mc Caffrey. |
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More information about the Oscar Wilde Society and details
of membership may be obtained from Michael Seeney, the Hon. Secretary
(see below). A Membership form (copy, paste and print) can be found by clicking http://www.oscarwildesociety.com/membership.pdf |
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For more information about (and for) The Wildean (including availability of previous issues) and Intentions, please contact Donald Mead (see below). |
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La Société Oscar Wilde En
France
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This was founded in Paris in January 2006 by Emmanuel
Vernadakis, D.C. Rose, Danielle
Guérin and Lou Ferreira as the French branch of The Oscar Wilde
Society, before becoming incorporated under the French law of
associations in July 2008 as an independent body. Its activities so far have included the
celebration of the centenary of Wilde’s reburial in Père Lachaise, arranging
group visits to Wilde productions and the creation of a bimestrial bulletin,
called rue des beaux
arts, of news, reviews and articles concerning Wilde and his
French associates. This is edited by
Danielle Guérin. At the moment
membership is chiefly confined to metropolitan France, Wallonie and French
Switzerland, but it is aimed at French speakers everywhere, and it is hoped
that readers of THE OSCHOLARS will draw this to the attention of
colleagues in Departments of French who teach the literature of the
fin-de-siècle. Membership costs 15 €
and information can be obtained from melmoth.paris@gmail.com. |
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Information
about rue des beaux
arts (which accepts articles in English as long as they have a
bearing on Wilde in France or Wilde’s French circles, influence etc) can be
obtained from the editor @. The Society’s archives, once housed with
those of THE OSCHOLARS at www.irishdiaspora.net, have
been transferred to www.oscholars.com. From time to time articles from rue des beaux arts are translated into
English and published in THE OSCHOLARS. |
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All issues are on line and available to members. |
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The SOCIÉTÉ OSCAR WILDE
is not to be confused with the ASSOCIATION
DES AMIS D’OSCAR WILDE, which also exists in |
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The Oscar Wilde Society of Japan
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We have an e-mail address for this Society, much the oldest of those devoted to Wilde, but for a long time no reply was made to our enquiry and we were unable to learn anything about it from other sources. This situation changed in the autumn of 2008 when Professor Atsuko Ogane became our Editor for Japan and opened friendly contact with the Society. THE OSCHOLARS will henceforth carry news of the Society’s activities. |
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We begin with her report (translated from the French) on the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society, held at Komazaswa University in Tokyo on the 6th December 2008. |
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The proceedings opened with a paper by Hiromi Tuchiya on ‘The birth of Oscar Wilde as a critic’, followed by the General Assembly, at which Professor Ogane introduced herself as our Editor, speaking on THE OSCHOLARS and the Société Oscar Wilde en France. The idea of a rapport between us was welcomed. |
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A discussion then took place on Wilde and the United States, led by the Wilde and fin-de-siècle specialist Professor Yoshiyuki Fujikawa, who explained why Wilde accepted the invitation of Richard D’Oyly Carte, who opposed the æsthetes, and why Wilde stayed so long. Referring to the importance of æstheticism to Wilde, insofar as Wilde was himself the model for Bunthorne in Patience. This had the result that Wilde was more interested in the commercialisation of Oscar Wilde himself. |
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Mme Keiko Kawachi, President of the Oscar Wilde Society of Japan and professor at Keio University, gave a presentation about Wilde’s correspondence during his stay in the United States with the quarrel with Archibald Forbes, and then showed the caricatures of Wilde during his travels, following the book Oscar Wilde discovers America (1932, New York). She also described a recent novel, Oscar Wilde Discovers America (New York, Scribner, 2003) by Louis Edwards, the origin of which stemmed from a single phrase of Wilde’s, ‘in a free country one cannot live without a slave’. |
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Noriyuki Harada, professor at the University of Kyorin and ex-vice president of the Society gave a talk on Wilde and American journalism. Why did Wilde occupy himself with journalism while at the same time severely criticising the Press? It seems that Wilde placed more importance on the unstable mass culture of the general public. Kazuyoshi Oishi, senior lecturer at the University of the Air, spoke of the picture of workers and aesthetes as well as taste ‘House Decoration’ and the importance given to ‘Handicraftsmen’ by Wilde, bringing to light the difference between William Morris and Wilde. |
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Finally, Professor John Stokes (King’s College, London) in a talk titled ‘In the event of Oscar Wilde: personal appearance in the 1880s’, spoke on the importance of the Art Gallery in providing a canvas where Wilde is painted centrally around the 1880s. Mr and Mrs Wilde have often been described as picturesque and clothes became an obsession as well as a spectacular success. It followed that this signalled the relationship between fashion and decoration. |
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Addresses to contact the Society are (President) Mme Keio
Kawachi keiko@gsc.nir.jp
and (Secretary) Mr Hikaru Sakamoto, sakamoto@flet.keio.ac.jp. |
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The Oscar Wilde Society of America
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<< The Oscar Wilde Society of America is an academic and literary society founded in 2002 to promote the study, understanding, and dissemination of research about Oscar Wilde and his times from the American perspective. |
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We are especially engaged in fostering a wider awareness of Oscar Wilde's 1882 American lecture tour, and the artists, educators, and other people he met on his tour across the continent. >> |
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Anyone interested in the OWSoA can make contact via the elegantly-designed web page http://www.owsoa.org. |
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The Society and its website are currently being
reconstructed. Further information may
be sought from Marilyn Bisch, President, e-mail @. |
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While the Society is not at the moment undertaking
activities, its website remains a valuable resource. An important feature is a well-designed and
accurate Calendar of Wilde's engagements in |
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Other Wilde
Associations, past and present:
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Project
Oscar Wilde
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This is the organisation, chaired by Heather White, that arranged the annual Oscar Wilde Weekend in Enniskillen, held each year in June. A report of the 2003 event was published in our July issue that year, but the website and e-mail addresses no longer function and although a festival was held in 2004 we have not been able to find recent news. We hope this situation will change, and will report any news that we are sent. |
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The
Oscar Wilde Literary Trust
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This was a breakaway group from The Oscar Wilde Society to which one occasionally finds references. Its web page, http://website.lineone.net/~oscar_wilde/, continued to work for some years, but eventually became blank after the title and now cannot be found. The group, which was never in any legal sense a trust, no longer exists. |
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