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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Dorian Gray"”.
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Dorian Gray: The Myth
… else. Oscar Wilde's novel, <em>The Picture of Dorian Gray, </em>claims and reworks the myth to suit a new, aesthetically indulgent purpose<em>. </em>In the novel, the “Narcissus and Echo” myth is adapted to characterize Dorian's allure and character flaws as well as Dorian’s relationship with …
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Warring Discourses in The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray has enjoyed a myriad of critical treatment since its first publication. Much of this is due to the paradoxical nature of Wilde's style. In this novel, there is a tension and unique interplay between the discourses of ethics and Decadence as applied to the …
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Irish Celtic folklore in The picture of Dorian Gray
… have studied Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray for nearly one hundred years, no one has examined the author's Irish Celtic heritage in relation to such unanswered questions as the source for the supernatural power that grants Dorian's wish to remain young and creates the central …
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The Battle of Good and Evil in The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only novel published by Oscar Wilde. The novel is considered to be one of the most controversial literary works of the 19th century. In his novel Wilde uses his three main characters to reflect the battle of good and evil that exists in every man. The conflict of …
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The Queer Gothic Hero's Journey in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
<p>This study of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray argues that the novel participates in a Gothic subversion of the archetypal hero’s journey. The novel employs Gothic devices to supplant heroic narremes. As the novel progresses, both Dorian (as a type of hero-character) and the narrative …
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Artistic (mis)representation and commodity culture in The Picture of Dorian Gray and The House of Mirth
… and Commodity Culture in The Picture of Dorian Gray and The House of Mirth" attempts to establish a trans-Atlantic connection between authors Oscar Wilde and Edith Wharton by considering the manner in which each author's respective protagonist relates to art, commodities, and the society …
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Oscar Wilde's Fiction: Views on Life and Art
… self-destruction and death:: <em>The Picture of Dorian Gray</em>, "The Happy Prince," "The Devoted Friend," "The Selfish Giant," and "The Rose and the Nightingale." These four fairy tales tie in nicely with Wilde's novel to show the true value of life and art.</p>
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Leisure and Conversation in the Fin de Siècle Novel
… Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Golden Bowl, and Howards End. These novels, all of which are set in Britain, depict the rapidly changing post-industrial social landscape at the turn of the nineteenth century. This era saw the rise of middle-class power and …
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Imagens da morte: um estudo do gênero policial-fantástico em Poe, Wilde e Christie
… Portrait, by Edgar Allan Poe, and The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, giving special attention to the study of the images and artificial representations of men: the mirror, as an ephemeral representation; and the portrait, as an attempt to eternize an ephemeral image. We also discuss …
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Looking with Narcissus: Oscar Wilde’s Reception of the Dying God
… 1891 book edition of his novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. By transferring agency away from the originator to the recipient, Wilde’s aphorism could be considered a late nineteenth-century version of reception theory, which has sought to challenge conventional critical ideas of influence or …
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Making Something Out of Nothing: Asexuality and Narrative
… in his 1891 revisions to The Picture of Dorian Gray. After discussing asexuality's incompatibility with models of narrative predicated on desire, I build on Judith Roof's critique of "heteronarrative" and argue that an asexually structured narrative opposes both the movement of endless …
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Autobiographical Poetry to Plays: Taking Memoir to a Theatrical Level
… will unfold. Wilde’s line, from The Picture of Dorian Gray, “I love acting. It is so much more real than life,” confirms that the autobiographical events I write about will be best received in a performance venue, where a heightened and theatrical reality are key to successfully telling a …
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Collecting as Self-Exploration in Late 19th-Century French Literature
… In Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, which became well-known and widely read in France at the time of its publication, collecting in Wilde's text becomes implicated in hiding the truth of oneself. In Huysmans' and Loti's depictions of collecting art, art objects and other …