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Syllabus:
1. Oscar Wilde, writer
- Wilde, the Irishman
- Oxford, John Ruskin and Walter Pater
- Creation of a reputation: Oscar Wilde in America
- The conquest of London, literary successes
- The trials and the prison
- Death and transfiguration
2. Oscar Wilde, poet
- Wilde, reader
- Wilde, young poet
- "The Sphinx"
- The prose poems
- The Ballad of the Reading Jail (I)
- The Ballad of the Reading Jail (II)
3. Critical essays and De profundis
- Conferences in America (1882)
- “The Soul of man under socialism” (1891)
- Intentions I
- Intentions II
- De profundis I. Writing and reception
- De profundis II. Analysis of the work
4. The Portrait of Dorian Gray
- Genesis of the novel
- Writing, publication and reception of the novel
- The names of the two main characters
- To what literary genre does the novel belong ?
- A psychological novel
- The Portrait of Dorian Gray and music
5. Oscar Wilde's theater
- Oscar Wilde, man of the theater
- Influences I
- Influences II
- The first pieces (Vera, or the Nihilists, The Duchess of Padua, Lady Windermere's Fan)
- Salomé (1892)
- An unimportant wife, An ideal husband and The importance of being Constant
6. Oscar Wilde, thinker and precursor (philosophy, psychoanalysis and theory of gender). Conclusion: his literary posterity
- Wilde and Hegel
- Wilde and Nietzsche: a rapprochement
- Language according to Wilde and Nietzsche
- Oscar Wilde and psychoanalysis
- Oscar Wilde and the theory of gender
- Literary posterity
