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• Full Title: The Importance of Being Earnest
• When Written: Summer 1894
• Where Written: Worthing, England
• When Published: First produced as a play on February 14, 1895; published in 1899
• Literary Period: Aestheticism; Victorian Era
• Genre: play; Victorian melodrama; comedy of manners; intellectual farce; satire
• Setting: The 1890s in London, England (Act I), and then Hertfordshire, a rural country outside of London (Acts II and III).
• Climax: Gwendolen and Cecily discover that neither Jack, nor Algernon holds the name of “Ernest.”
• Antagonist: Lady Bracknell

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Just dandy: Known for his long hair and the ever-present flower in his button-hole, Wilde popularized the figure of the “fop,” or “dandy,” a man devoted to his personal appearance, style, and dress.

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This essay discusses how Wilde addresses the very nature of being. In repressive Victorian society, he chronicles the emergence of a self that is hidden and double and thus must exist at the margin, if not in the shadows. The result in Wilde’s private life is an identity in flux that reveals him as an identity migrant, who at one moment is the Victorian father and husband, and at another, the homosexual lover of Lord Alfred Douglas.

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This article is based on the assumption that the analysis of literary discourse from pragmatic perspectives takes into consideration the specificity of the literary work. The literary work under focus is Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. The present research applies two pragmatic theories, namely speech act theory and implicature to the play and raises the question of how Wilde’s purpose is pragmatically achieved. It argues that the play is characterized by the frequent violation of the Maxim of Relation. It also shows that the violation of this maxim results in four recurrent pragmatic strategies and that these strategies interrelate with four main themes of the play. Both qualitative and quantitative methods are used: The utterances marked by the violation of the relation maxim are analyzed in relation to their context and then they are classified into strategies and themes. Consequently, it is shown that whenever one of the four strategies is used, its use aims to deal with a specific theme. This research has found that, not only does the interrelationship strategy/theme contribute to Wilde’s purpose behind writing The Importance of Being Earnest but it also accounts for the specificity of this play. It accounts for its unity because the unifying interrelationship is between irrelevance as the main strategy and seriousness as the main theme. Key words: speech act, relation maxim, irrelevance, seriousness

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This essay is the second part of a study of the figures of text as child and child as text in (mainly) late nineteenth century writing. The whole study takes as its starting point the well-known instance of text as child in Ibsen's HEDDA GABLER (1890). The present essay begins with Oscar Wilde's parodic hommage to Ibsen's play in THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (1895). It is argued that the figure under consideration conjoins with concerns central to Wilde's imagination. The situation is even plainer in the case of J. M. Barrie, whose idea of being 'the parent of the Book' is recurrent in his early work. An examination of the novel THE LITTLE WHITE BIRD (1902) demonstrates the problematic and disturbing qualities of Barrie's treatment of this theme. The essay ends by investigating how and why text can be seen even to take priority over child in THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST and THE LITTLE WHITE BIRD.

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