Lady Windermere Research Articles

Gender characterization in Lady Windermere’s Fan and its Chinese translations: A corpus stylistic approach

This study examines gender representation in Oscar Wilde’s comedy and satire, Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), using corpus stylistic analysis. Specifically, it analyzes gender characterization patterns in the original drama and explores how these patterns shift in two Chinese translations: Shen Xingren’s translation in 1918 and Hong Shen’s translation in 1923. By analyzing keyword patterns, collocational patterns, and characterization cues, the study reveals the intricate nature of gender characterization in the source text. Subsequently, a comparison is made between the textual patterns of the source text and their manifestations in the translations. The findings indicate that while Shen Xingren’s translation quite faithfully (re)represents the gender images and relations of the source text, Hong Shen’s selective appropriation of women and men characterization in his translation not only suppresses the source text’s potential to challenge moral absolutism towards women but also undermines the voices of women present in the original text. The article suggests that the re-representation or shifts in gender characterization observed between the source and target texts can be attributed to the translator’s ideology and adherence to particular poetics.

Nontuberculous Mycobacteria, Mucociliary Clearance, and Bronchiectasis.

Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are environmental and ubiquitous, but only a few species are associated with disease, often presented as nodular/bronchiectatic or cavitary pulmonary forms. Bronchiectasis, airways dilatations characterized by chronic productive cough, is the main presentation of NTM pulmonary disease. The current Cole's vicious circle model for bronchiectasis proposes that it progresses from a damaging insult, such as pneumonia, that affects the respiratory epithelium and compromises mucociliary clearance mechanisms, allowing microorganisms to colonize the airways. An important bronchiectasis risk factor is primary ciliary dyskinesia, but other ciliopathies, such as those associated with connective tissue diseases, also seem to facilitate bronchiectasis, as may occur in Lady Windermere syndrome, caused by M. avium infection. Inhaled NTM may become part of the lung microbiome. If the dose is too large, they may grow excessively as a biofilm and lead to disease. The incidence of NTM pulmonary disease has increased in the last two decades, which may have influenced the parallel increase in bronchiectasis incidence. We propose that ciliary dyskinesia is the main promoter of bronchiectasis, and that the bacteria most frequently involved are NTM. Restoration of ciliary function and impairment of mycobacterial biofilm formation may provide effective therapeutic alternatives to antibiotics.

Lady Windermere syndrome.

Lady Windermere syndrome.

A A Study on the Character Building and Messages of “Lady Windermere’s Fan” Drama by Oscar Wilde

This paper figures out the characters and the messages or moral values of a play namely Lady Widermere’s Fan. The drama was designed based on Heathcote’s (1984) understanding of drama in education in order to cultivate creative pedagogy and ‘character’ building. The data was gained by reading the drama script based on existing documents. The result showed that every character has various characters and each of them is related to others. The main character has fundamentally strengthened the plot and has important effects to other characters. The moral values that can be seen from this play are that all humankind is far from the word “perfect” even if they are consider themselves as good, kind, and wise people. They still tend to have shortage.

Lady Windermere Syndrome Complicated by Kyphoscoliosis: a Case Report

Lady Windermere Syndrome Complicated by Kyphoscoliosis: a Case Report

Oscar Wilde’s ideal woman: Constructing Victorian upper-class female identity in Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan

Abstract This paper examines the definition of the Victorian upper-class woman in the context of Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan, in light of the prevailing gender roles and conventions of the late Victorian era. Drawing upon Judith Butler’s theories of sex and gender, this study investigates Victorian female subjectivity in terms of the power dynamics between men and women. Drawing upon Butlerian analyses of sex and gender, this paper has explored two divergent representations of upper-class female subjectivity in the Victorian period. The representation of intelligible-gendered identities in the Duchess of Berwick is a key point of consideration when examining Victorian upper-class female subjects. In contrast, Mrs. Erlynne serves as an example of an unintelligible-gendered character, allowing for an exploration of the ramifications of challenging the prevailing power structure. In this article, it is demonstrated that Wilde’s female ideal is neither definitively intelligible-gendered nor unintelligible-gendered; rather, she is a figure who resists power and reacts to any perceived threats to her social standing. This article posits that Wilde’s ideal woman is a semi-intelligible-gendered identity. Furthermore, it is suggested that, despite his advocacy of Women’s rights, Wilde still endorses certain gender roles and binary oppositions between the sexes, one of which is the role of motherhood. Wilde illustrates a scenario in which breaking away from these social conventions would lead to a tragic end which no woman is able to escape.

Lady Windermere Syndrome: Historical Perspective and Report of a Rare Case

Abstract Introduction/Objective Lady Windermere syndrome refers to Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) pulmonary disease with an isolated lingular or middle lobe pattern of involvement. This is thought to be due to habitual suppression of the cough voluntarily. Typical demographics are that of elderly female patient. Although the etiology remains unclear high prevalence of pectus excavatum, scoliosis and mitral valve prolapse has also been noted in these patients. The purpose of this report this to describe a case of this syndrome. Methods/Case Report A 64-year-old female with a history of breast carcinoma status post bilateral mastectomies, and thyroid papillary microcarcinoma, status post thyroidectomy, presented with hemoptysis. Clinically and radiological findings were consistent with pneumonia which improved but did not completely resolve following antibiotic treatment. Computerized tomography (CT) revealed progressive infiltrates and bronchoscopy cultures grew Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC). Repeat antibiotic therapy resulted in only marginal improvement. Repeat CT showed diffuse bronchiectatic changes with scattered nodularity and tree-in-bud opacities, with majority of involvement in the right middle lobe and lingula. Multiple interventions were employed to ameliorate the patient’s condition including a positive expiratory pressure device, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) precautions and combinations of 2 drug therapies without significant improvement in her condition. It was ultimately decided that she may benefit from a right middle lobectomy. Histologic sections from the lobectomy specimen showed necrotizing and non-necrotizing granulomatous inflammation and bronchiolectasis. Rare acid-fast microorganisms were identified on AFB special satin. Lady Windermere syndrome was suggested in the diagnostic comment after expert consultation. Patient’s symptoms improved after surgery and additional samples show no growth of MAC. Results (if a Case Study enter NA) NA Conclusion Although rendering a definite diagnosis is challenging in such cases, the constellation of clinical, radiologic, and histologic finding can be used to raise the possibility of Lady Windermere syndrome.

Stereoscopic London: Plays of Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw and Arthur Wing Pinero in the 1890s, by Gül Kurtulu?

Reviewed by: Stereoscopic London: Plays of Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw and Arthur Wing Pinero in the 1890s by Gül Kurtuluş Mary Christian (bio) Stereoscopic London: Plays of Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw and Arthur Wing Pinero in the 1890s, by Gül Kurtuluş; pp. 182. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2020, $48.95. In Stereoscopic London: Plays of Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw and Arthur Wing Pinero in the 1890s, Gül Kurtuluş examines late-Victorian theatrical depictions of metropolitan life in the works of three prominent turn-of-the-century dramatists, paying special attention to "the idea of community as formulated by the needs and requirements of its members" (14). Each of the three main chapters focuses on one well-known play: Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Arthur Wing Pinero's The Second Mrs. Tanqueray (1893), and George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (1912). The chapters also give secondary attention to other works by the respective dramatists. Along with detailed close readings of the dramatic texts themselves, Kurtuluş draws attention to the London locations portrayed or mentioned in the plays. Some of the neighborhood information she provides is unsurprising—the average reader will probably already know that Mayfair is a posh London district and that Hoxton is not. However, some of these location notes will likely be new to many readers and might suggest new ideas regarding the subtexts of certain scenes. For example, Kurtuluş points out that Clerkenwell, the district inhabited by the troupe of actors in Trelawny of the "Wells" (1898), was an area with centuries of theatrical history, dating back to performances of mystery plays in the Middle Ages—a fact that might well enhance one's enjoyment of Pinero's play, with its themes of nostalgia and theatrical evolution. The book's introduction declares an interest in "the rules imposed by urban society" and the ways in which these rules are dramatized in the selected plays (14). The rules that receive the most attention throughout the book are the demands for women's sexual purity (or at least the appearance of purity), the adherence to prescribed gender roles, and the distinctions between different levels in the social class hierarchy. The author notes numerous details of plot, dialogue, and character that reflect the plays' preoccupation with these social requirements. These analyses, however, might lead readers to ask: If Londoners of this period were made to follow strict expectations regarding gender, sex, and class, then to what extent were these rules and hypocrisies unique to London? In what ways were demands for female chastity in London, and the way such demands were enforced, distinct from the conditions of smaller towns and rural areas? Kurtuluş acknowledges the need to address this question, or nearly acknowledges it, in the analysis of The Second Mrs. Tanqueray. She suggests that the Tanquerays' unhappy migration from London to Surrey illustrates that "a shift in setting . . . does not provide a remedy for the Victorian social diseases of class division and repressive morality that infect all the city's inhabitants" (95). The chapter's conclusion adds that "nineteenthcentury London and Victorian Britain in general evinced a quite hypocritical sense of morality and justice" (96). Many scholars of nineteenth-century literature would easily agree with this statement. The book, however, offers no clear response to the obvious follow-up question: If this hypocrisy is characteristic of Britain in this period, what sets London apart? Readers are left to wonder if Kurtuluş is writing a book about theatrical depictions of London or about theatrical depictions of Victorian class hierarchy and sexual mores more generally. [End Page 482] If the title's emphasis on "London" seems incompletely explained by the book as a whole, the Shaw chapter raises questions regarding the time period designated as the book's focus, "the 1890s." Shaw was active as a theater critic and dramatist during the 1890s, but this activity is scarcely mentioned. Instead the chapter focuses on Pygmalion and a handful of other plays—Man and Superman (1903), The Doctor's Dilemma (1906), and Heartbreak House (1919)—all of which were written and set in the twentieth century. These plays offer valuable insights on London, and certainly comment more explicitly on...

Clinical analysis of pulmonary nocardiosis associated with bronchiectasis

Objective: To better understand the clinical characteristics of pulmonary nocardiosis associated with bronchiectasis. Methods: Patients diagnosed as bronchiectasis complicated with pulmonary nocardiosis in 9 tertiary general hospitals in China were enrolled from March 2016 to March 2020, with the record of general data, imaging performance and pathogen. The literature was reviewed. Results: Totally 17 patients were included. There were 12 females and 5 males. The ages ranged from 45 to 79 years, with an average of (63±9) years. There were 15 nonsmokers and 2 smokers, all of whom with chronic course. The clinical manifestations were mostly cough, expectoration, hemoptysis, fever, and dyspnea. The imaging manifestation was bronchiectasis in both lungs, with the most common involvement in the left lower lung, right middle lobe and left lingual lobe. Sputum cultures were positive in 10 cases, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) cultures were positive in 6 cases, and next generation gene sequencings were positive in 4 cases, including 2 cases of Nocardia gelsenkii, 2 cases of Nocardia abscess, 2 cases of Nocardia stellate, 1 case of Nocardia mexicana, 1 case of Nocardia otitis caviae, and 9 cases of undetermined Nocardia. There were 3 cases of Klebsiella pneumoniae, 2 cases of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and 2 cases of Aspergillus. The symptoms and imaging of all patients were improved after anti Nocardia therapy. Conclusions: Bronchiectasis combined with nocardiosis is more common in middle-aged and elderly women without smoking, which is similar to the clinical manifestations of Lady Windermere syndrome. Bronchiectasis often involves the left lower lobe, right middle lobe and left lingual lobe. Nocardia infection might further precipitate the initiation and progression of bronchiectasis.

Lady Windermere Syndrome: An Interesting Clinical and Radiological Presentation

Lady Windermere Syndrome is an uncommon pulmonary disease characteristically observed in elderly white females with chronic cough suppression and dyspnea. It is classically associated with Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) species. An 84-year-old female was evaluated for longstanding non-productive cough and intermittent dyspnea. A chest computed tomography scan revealed densities in the right upper lobe and scattered nodular-cystic bronchiectasis. Biopsy was negative for malignancy; however, bronchioalveolar lavage studies showed presence of MAC. Patient was treated with a 12-month course of azithromycin, rifampin and ethambutol resulting in resolution of her symptoms.

Lady Windermere syndrome: Reality or myth?

Introduction: Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) is a saprophytic bacterium which can cause pulmonary infection in patients with immunocompromised and structural lung disease. Infection in elderly, non-smoker and healthy women affecting right middle lobe is often referred as Lady Windermere syndrome.

Titters at Black-and-White Moral Absolutism: Portrayal of Characters in Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan

This paper examines Oscar Wilde’s portrayal of characters in his famous comedy Lady Windermere’s Fan in an attempt to unravel the mystery behind the seemingly contradictory acts of behavior which are at odds with their inclinations and the attitudes they often express in their dialogues with one another. Since critics have been holding controversial views about Wilde’s craftsmanship in character delineation, the paper endeavors to prove that he meant to avoid black-and-white moral absolutism to prove that a human being is essentially unpredictable, and has a multi-facetted self which is far more sophisticated than being drawn as either good or bad. I argue that Wilde’s craftsmanship should not be under question, for his portrayal of characters is correlated to the focal point of the play which maintains that human behavior cannot be measured by a yardstick. At the beginning, I include an analysis of characters’ sayings and acts of behavior, and thereafter I briefly elucidate how Wilde utilizes them to communicate his message. The upshot of this paper contests that a human being is a potentiality that keeps unfolding. The more a person experiences life, the better he\ she tolerates difference and shows more understanding of people’s nature and motives. This seems to be the crux of Wilde’s play and the interpretation of his seemingly contradictory delineation of characters.

“Manners Before Morals”: Wilde’s New Woman in Lady Windermere’s Fan

This essay contextualizes the significance of Oscar Wilde’s social comedy Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) in the formation of “New Woman” towards the end of the Victorian age. Set in the late nineteenth-century England in which women were rarely visible in public space, the comedy portrays “New Woman” as one who is willing to subvert traditional conception of morality and femininity. Mrs. Erlynne in particular fashions herself as an unconventional type of woman who dares to deviate from accepted cultural norms of the society. The new woman is positioned as the main force of social transformation through the course of action in the play. By exploring how New Woman has been hardly treated equitably but they try to make their voices heard in the suppressed society, Wilde challenges the social and cultural stereotype of a good woman in the Victorian era. To examine the implication of New Woman proposed in the play, I focus on how Wilde presents his female characters as genuinely new and thereby promotes the qualities of New Woman such as autonomy, self-liberation, and feminine alliance. In so doing, this essay argues that the play exemplifies how Wilde creates a unique position in the course of his struggle for gender equality. That is why the play deserves to draw more scrupulous critical attention, especially because the issues addressed here stay relevant to our society as well as to Wilde’s contemporary audience.

Oscar Wilde'ın Lady Windermere'in Yelpazesi Eserinde İkili Karşıtlıkların Yeniden Yapılandırılması

Considered as a misfit in his own time, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) has an idiosyncratic perspective that defies the traditional regulations and social norms of the Victorian era. Witnessing the gradual disintegration of the moral values and the hypocritical practices of the late Victorian society, Wilde develops a humorous attitude which enables the reader/audience to question the ambivalent gaps between ‘sharp’ distinctions – such as good and bad, honest and corrupt, pure and fallen – in his works. Rejecting the status of art as an instrument of moral education that aims to guide the society, Wilde refrains from applauding the long-established values of the Victorian upper and upper-middle classes. Instead, he tries to draw attention to the hidden layers of meaning that bring the hypocritical agenda of the Victorian morals to the surface. In this respect, it is to be argued that illustrating the grey areas between Lady Windermere who, as a devout wife, was about the cross the line between a ‘good’ and a ‘bad’ woman if it were not for the altruism of her mother, and Mrs Erlynne, who is the so-called ‘bad’ woman with an unknown past, Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) illustrates the interchangeable points between either/or dualities. Therefore, this paper intends to analyse the remoulding of the strict Victorian binaries – which have long been constructed in accordance with the hypocritical premises of the late 19th century in England. In addition, although the main scope of this study is not concerned with applying a postmodern or feminist reading to the source text, in order to support Wilde’s intention to problematize the constructed status of the binary oppositions, Julia Kristeva’s (b. 1941) criticism against the patriarchal representation of women will also be touched upon.

A Study on the Character Building and Messages of “Lady Windermere’s Fan” Drama by Oscar Wilde

This research figures out the characters and the messages or moral values of a play namely Lady Windermere’s Fan. The drama was designed based on Heathcote’s (1984) understanding of drama in education in order to cultivate creative pedagogy and ‘character’ building. The data was gained by reading the drama script based on existing documents. The result showed that every character has various characters and each of them is related to others. The main character has fundamentally strengthened the plot and has important effects to other characters. The moral values that can be seen from this play are that all humankind is far from the word “perfect” even if they are considered themselves as good, kind, and wise people. They still tend to have a shortage.

Zamena rodnih uloga, ženska solidarnost i posrnule žene u Vajldovim dramama

Wilde's plays The Importance of Being Earnest, A Woman of No Importance, Lady Windermere's Fan and Salomé all feature female characters and themes relevant to the domains of research of feminist literary theory, including relationships between men and women, marriage, the complexity of female characters, their treatment in literature, gender roles and how they are portrayed. This paper explores the themes of role reversal, female solidarity and fallen women with the aim of showing that Wilde's works were progressive for their time in terms of pointing out problematic societal expectations and norms. In The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde satirized the gender roles of the Victorian society and how men had power over women and their choices, while in the plays A Woman of No Importance, Lady Windermere's Fan and Salomé, the main characters are fallen women, a stereotype the Victorian society invented to mark women they considered impure. A Woman of No Importance and Lady Windermere's Fan are plays about the struggles of fallen women who made mistakes in the past and formed important friendships with other female characters, while the tragedy Salomé tells the tale of a woman who falls and dies as a consequence of her fall. Additionally, the paper will examine closely related themes, such as motherhood, sexuality, and negative gender stereotypes related to the one of the fallen women.

CRISIS OF FEMININE IDENTITY: A CRITICAL STUDY OF OSCAR WILDE’S LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN FROM FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE

This study explores the play Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde, and the feminist figures in the play and their role, to illustrate the dominant control of men in the Victorian period. And the discrimination towards women as a human being base on gender. This paper shows a piece of brief information about the author for what it has to do with Lady Windermere’s fan events. And demonstrates the feminism meaning and its impact on the events of the play, besides a short summary of the play. This paper focuses on the role of the fallen woman and how the author gradually transforms the audience's thinking about the fallen woman and contradicts the conventional view of it. And illustrate the inferiority view of women in the Victorian era and how the woman only meant to be part of domestic life. In addition to the motherhood and how a fallen woman acts with that in Victorian society according to Wilde’s point of view.

Im/politeness, gender and power distance inLady Windermere’s Fan

AbstractIm/politeness has attracted considerable attention over the past decades (starting withLakoff 1973;Brown and Levinson 1978;Leech 1983) and has kept expanding rapidly with the discursive turn (Eelen 2001;Mills 2003;Watts 2003;Bousfield 2008;Locher 2008). There is a growing interest in examining im/politeness from a number of perspectives, e.g. society, gender, cross-cultural etc., and multiple definitions have been proposed, however, impoliteness as such has not had a distinct theoretical framework yet.This study investigates impoliteness through drama translation data. It focuses on manipulation of im/politeness in target versions of a playtext, in terms of gender, and examines how humour may be facilitated through such shifts. The aim is to confirm that impoliteness does interact with gender (Mills 2003), and that humour creation draws on reversed gender stereotypes. It also shows that power (ensuing from reversed gender stereotypes) interacts with impoliteness strategies, to manifest humour in the target versions. The study usesBousfield’s (2008)model to account for im/politeness shifts, between the two versions.Oscar Wilde’sLady Windermere’s Fan(1892) is a comedy and a satire targeting the aristocratic society of the time. The two Greek translations of the play (2006 by Karhadakis and 2010 by Belies) are a most suitable context for examining how impoliteness interacts with power distance and gender to create humour, because of its humorous aspects and cross-gender talk. The paper also intends to show impoliteness scholarship that translation has a rich potential for deciphering or confirming pragmatic aspects of the phenomenon, which are elsewhere pursued through monolingual research.

“The Sacred Duty”—Oscar Wild’s “Lady Windermere’s Fan”, a Response to “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen: A Comparative Study

This article primarily investigates on “the sacred duty” depicted in “A Doll’s House” (1879) (1889-the English translation) by Henrik Ibsen and “Lady Windemere’s Fan” (1892) by Oscar Wilde, which was staged almost simultaneously in London. Nora’s leaving from her doll’s house stressing her duty to herself and desire to be herself created a huge controversy in traditional Victorian society. A Doll’s house sheds lights on the anomalous position of women in the male-dominant society and due to the intense public discussion about the play, there came up Ibsenist and anti-Ibsenist movement. Oscar Wilde, on the other hand, being an unconventional literary figure in the late Victorian period, seems to have provided a bold response to “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen through his well-made play, Lady Windermere’s Fan in which the protagonist, Lady Windermere left home on a rash decision and made her mind to return when she was reminded of her sacred duty towards her child. The paper concludes showcasing that Nora’s decision to leave her doll’s house looks fair enough in the circumstances around her whereas Lady Windermere returning to her family to perform her “sacred duty” must also be praised as she was misled by a baseless misconception.

Lady windermere syndrome variant: Atypical presentation in young female patient

Lady windermere syndrome variant: Atypical presentation in young female patient