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Title: Tame Passions of Wilde: The Styles of Manageable Desire by Jeff Nunokawa ISBN: 0-691-11380-7 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95

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Summary: Not Worth the Trouble
Comment: This extraordinarily dull book purports to speculate on the Wildean problem of taming the passions -- a project that, according to Nunokawa, demonstrates the thoroughly modern understanding of desire that was one of Wilde's major contributions to 20th century culture. But it is easy to see that what really requires taming is Nunokawa's own prose style, which constantly dazzles itself with coy uses of quotation marks and efforts at cleverness that come off as merely wan imitations of D.A. Miller. Notably, the only truly witty lines in the book are the quotations from Wilde. Indeed, discipline appears to be the missing concept in Nunokawa's self-impressed, accordion-like unfolding of a screen that has precious little substance after one gets past the fanfare of the author's delight at his own meditations. If Nunokawa recognized literary criticism as a discpline that requires analysis as a tool for building an argument, then perhaps the reader might finally arrive somewhere after a journey that proves, in this case, to be a mere jeu d'esprit.

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