Article: Pit of shame; the real ballad of Reading Gaol.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: Wilde's 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol.' (Oscar Wilde)
The Explicator;  March 22, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... s Inferno on Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol has not yet been noted, especially ... confusingly, one thing remains constant: Reading Gaol is a horror, a terrifying hell that ... that there are two circles or rings in Reading Gaol, one inhabited by the guardsman, who ...

Article: Arrested development. (Notebook).(Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of ...
New Criterion;  June 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... mouthed Doctor" of The Ballad of Reading Gaol who ... gloats and notes Each new ... always accompanied by The Ballad of Reading Gaol--not literally, for my own copy ... architecturally, to the same era as Reading Gaol. It is of the panopticon type, so ...

Encyclopedia entry: Ballad of Reading Gaol, The
The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature;      272 words ...Ballad of Reading Gaol, The, a prison poem written by Oscar Wilde in 1897–8, after his release and during his self-imposed exile in France and Italy; and published anonymously over his prison number, C33.

Article: Letter: Reading gaol
The Independent - London;  October 24, 2002 ;     272 words ...Sir: I was not surprised to hear of the "reading rots the mind" notice in Crick and Brenner's Cambridge office (Science and Nature, 21 October). Having lived there myself for a number of years I can see why the casual visitor might form that impression. However I must say in the town's defence that

Article: In the Reading Gaol: Postmodernity, Texts, and ...
Style;  December 22, 1995 ;     700+ words ...One of the problems of the label "Reader-Response Criticism" is that it covers a multitude of different approaches. Jane Tompkins's anthology, Reader-Response Criticism, originally published in 1980 but reprinted many times since then and still used as a course textbook, includes essays that could

Article: IT'S NO `READING GAOL.' IT'S NOT EVEN `RIOT IN CELL ...
The Boston Globe;  August 10, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Next to the great prison accounts in literature - Oscar Wilde, Arthur Koestler, Primo Levi, Alexander Solzhenitsyn - we now have Jeffrey Archer. Last month Archer was released from jail after serving two years of a four-year sentence; his American readers, who are nearly as legion as they are in

Article: The stolen ballads of reading gaol Prison poems to ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  August 9, 2009 ;     291 words ...A PROJECT to encourage prisoners to write verse, with a pounds 25 prize, suffered a setback after some entrants proved not entirely honest. The prisoners' newspaper Inside Time, which is published by a charity, has introduced strict checks on its poetry page after some contributors copied out poems