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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900"”.
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Godot in Earnest: Beckettian Readings of Wilde
… and audiences alike have neglected the idea of Wilde as a precursor to Beckett. But I contend that a closer look at each writer's aesthetic and philosophic tendencies-for instance, their interest in the fluid nature of self, their understanding of identity as a performance, and their belief in …
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Between word and meaning : wit, modernism, and perverse narrative
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Department of English, 2010
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Collecting as Self-Exploration in Late 19th-Century French Literature
… exemplified by Huysmans and Loti, will close. 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 …