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Oscar Wilde, écrivain et penseur du langage (edX)

Offered by Sorbonne University,
Oscar Wilde, écrivain et penseur du langage (edX)

Ce MOOC présente l’œuvre entière d’Oscar Wilde: conférences, poésie, contes, roman, théâtre, essais, De profundis. L’accent est mis sur les relations de Wilde avec la France, sa langue et sa littérature, dont l’écrivain avait une connaissance profonde, et la nature innovante de sa relation au langage et à la littérature.

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Oscar Wilde est l’auteur d’une œuvre abondante qui illustre tous les genres littéraires.
Parfois mal compris, sans doute en raison de la confidence qu’il aurait faite à André Gide (« J’ai mis tout mon génie dans ma vie; je n’ai mis que mon talent dans mon œuvre ») dont tout invite à penser qu’elle n’est pas authentique, Wilde, souvent perçu comme un esthète brillant ancré dans son siècle, était au contraire un écrivain innovant qui a bel et bien mis son génie dans son œuvre.
Si sa culture était immense, il a su l’utiliser pour créer une œuvre profondément originale qui s’interroge en permanence sur le pouvoir, ou sur l’impuissance, du langage.
Wilde avait également une pensée politique qui remettait en cause les présupposés de son temps, et son théâtre, notamment, rend compte de sa capacité à déstabiliser les catégories établies, par exemple celles du « masculin » et du « féminin », avec les implications idéologiques que cela suppose.
Ce MOOC s’intéresse aussi, par conséquent, à sa postérité qui montre bien que son œuvre fait sens pour les lecteurs contemporains.

Syllabus

Séance I : Oscar Wilde, écrivain
1ère séquence : Wilde, l’Irlandais
2ème séquence : Oxford, John Ruskin et Walter Pater
3ème séquence : Création d’une réputation : Oscar Wilde en Amérique
4ème séquence : La conquête de Londres, succès littéraires
5ème séquence : Les procès et la prison
6ème séquence : Mort et transfiguration

Séance II : Oscar Wilde, poète
1ère séquence : Wilde, lecteur
2ème séquence : Wilde, jeune poète
3ème séquence : « La Sphinge »
4ème séquence : Les poèmes en prose
5ème séquence : La Ballade de la Geôle de Reading (I)
6ème séquence : La Ballade de la Geôle de Reading (II)

Séance III : Les essais critiques et De profundis
1ère séquence : Conférences en Amérique (1882)
2ème séquence : « L'Âme de l'homme sous le socialisme » (1891)
3ème séquence : Intentions I
4ème séquence : Intentions II
5ème séquence : De profundis I. Rédaction et réception
6ème séquence : De profundis II. Analyse de l’œuvre

Séance IV : Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
1ère séquence : Genèse du roman
2ème séquence : Rédaction, parution et réception du roman
3ème séquence : Les noms des deux personnages principaux
4ème séquence : Á quel genre littéraire le roman appartient-il ?
5ème séquence : Un roman psychologique
6ème séquence : Le Portrait de Dorian Gray et la musique

Séance V : Le théâtre d’Oscar Wilde
1ère séquence : Oscar Wilde, homme de théâtre
2ème séquence : Les influences I
3ème séquence : Les influences II
4ème séquence : Les premières pièces (Véra, ou les Nihilistes, La Duchesse de Padoue, L’Éventail de lady Windermere)
5ème séquence : Salomé (1892)
6ème séquence : Une femme sans importance, Un mari idéal et L’importance d’être Constant

Séance VI : Oscar Wilde, penseur et précurseur (philosophie, psychanalyse et théorie du genre).
Conclusion : sa postérité littéraire (6 séquences)
1ère séquence : Wilde et Hegel
2ème séquence : Wilde et Nietzsche: un rapprochement
3ème séquence : Le langage selon Wilde et Nietzsche
4ème séquence : Oscar Wilde et la psychanalyse
5ème séquence : Oscar Wilde et la théorie du genre
6ème séquence : Postérité littéraire

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