This essay argues that Oscar Wilde noticeably contributed to the emerging discourse about world literature, even though his views in this regard have to be unearthed from the margins of his works, from his early and unpublished American lectures and ‘between the lines’ of his major critical essays. Wilde’s implicit ideas around world literature can be understood as being closely related to his broader endeavour of redirecting and revaluing the pejorative discourse around ‘decadence’ in art and literature. More specifically, the arch-aesthete preferred to use the word ‘romance’ rather than ‘decadence’ (a term he hardly used at all in his writings), signalling a sensitivity attuned to what he called the ‘love of things impossible’. This reconceptualization of the decadent outlook was to inspire a critical ideal of literature which relied on creatively activating the other as Other, culminating in a vision of intersubjective, transcultural and unlimited literary communication. Wilde’s thought can be more specifically understood as anticipating central tenets of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s evocations of the planetary, thus preparing the way for an alterity-oriented understanding of literary cosmopolitanism.

本文认为，奥斯卡·王尔德（Oscar Wilde）显然为新兴的世界文学话语做出了贡献，尽管他在这方面的观点必须从其作品的边缘，早期和未发表的美国演讲以及其主要作品的“界线”中发掘出来。批判性论文。王尔德关于世界文学的隐含思想可以理解为与他更广泛的努力转向和重新评估围绕艺术和文学中的“衰落”的贬义话语密切相关。更具体地讲，这位始祖美学者更喜欢使用“浪漫”一词，而不是“ de废”（他在他的著作中几乎没有使用过这个词），这表明人们对他所谓的“对事物的热爱是不可能的”具有一定的敏感性。和其他一样，最终形成了主体间，跨文化和无限的文学交流的愿景。王尔德的思想可以更具体地理解为，预见了伽耶特里·查克拉沃蒂·斯皮瓦克（Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak）对行星的唤起的中心信条，从而为以变异为导向的文学世界主义理解铺平了道路。