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• W1606811205 abstract "Living at theTurning Point of theWorld: Stoppard and W ilde Wilhelm Emilsson Douglas College T om Stoppard’s play T h e I n v e n t i o n o f L o v e (1997) begins with the poet and classical scholar A.E. Housman standing on the bank of the Styx, watching the dreaded ferryman, Charon, coming towards him. Housman says: “I’m dead, then. Good. And this is the Stygian gloom one has heard so much about” (1). But nothing is ever quite what it seems in the uncertain, slippery world of Stoppard. The audience gradually discovers that Housman is not quite dead yet. The 77-year-old Housman is in a nursing home, in a bed which he may, or may not, have wet. It is night. He is “[njeither dead nor dreaming, then, but in between,” as he puts it towards the end of the play (101). The entire work represents the bewildering weaving and unweaving of a mind that is fading away. But before Housman fades out completely, he meets the debonair ghost of Oscar Wilde on the bank of the Styx in the strange play of his dying brain. Wilde tells the repressed closet-homosexual Housman: I awoke the imagination of the century. I banged Ruskin’s and Pater’s heads together, and from the moral severity of one and the aesthetic soul of the other I made art a philosophy that can look the twentieth century in the eye. I had genius, brilliancy, daring, I took charge of my own myth.... I lived at the turning ESC 29.1-2 (March/June 2003): 131-148 W ilh e lm Em ilsso n specializes in 19th- and 20th-century literature and culture, especially aestheticism, decadence, postmodernism, and popular culture. He has published on Iain Sinclair for Critique (2002), in addition to publishing creative writing in Critical Quarterly (1991) and Prairie Fire (2000). He has an essay coming out in a book titled Culture and Transnationalism: Film, Literature and Society and is currently working on a book called Epicurean Aestheticism: De Quincey, Pater, Wilde, Stoppard. point of the world where everything was waking up new—the New Drama, the New Novel, New Journalism, New Hedonism, New Paganism, even the New Woman. Where were you when all this was happening? (96-97) This is not the first time Stoppard has celebrated Wilde’s daring brand of aestheticism. Until now the most obvious example of Stoppard’s kinship with Wilde has been his 1974 play Travesties, whose themes and structures are a playfully affectionate variation on The Importance ofBeingEarnest (see Sammells, “Earning Liberties” 376). This essay examines the subtle cultural resonance between Stoppard’s postmodernist poetics and Wilde’s turn-ofthe -century explorations of aesthetic surfaces. Lady Bracknell’s famous line from The Importance of Being Earnest seems even more apt today than when the play was performed in 1895: “We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces” (3:164-65). As we enter a new century, a time in which the whole world often appears like one continual turning point, it seems particularly fitting to study writers like Wilde and Stoppard. Both authors explore what Michel Foucault calls an “aesthetics of existence” (Use ofPleasure 12), which is a crucial aspect of the relevance of their work to our time, for at the same time that they acknowledge the problems of modern life, they show how nimble aesthetic strategies can be used to face the flux of the world with insouciant style rather than dour angst. While some might acknowledge certain links between the playful dramas of Wilde and Stoppard, they may be uneasy about the claim that Stoppard’s postmodernist poetics has much in common with nineteenth-century aes­ theticism with its doctrine of art for art’s sake. This is an understandable concern. For instance, Steven Connor writes that certain shifts in attitude from modernism to postmodernism “constitute an assault on the ways in which the realm of the aesthetic has been defined since Kant.”1 Hence, he continues, “postmodernism may be said to be defined, at least in part, as a 1 It is an intriguing historical irony..." @default.
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