Disinterest and Disruption: The Picture of Dorian Gray and the Modernist Aesthetics of the Obscene
This essay explores to what extent Wilde’s novel can be considered a proto-modernist text in its adherence to an “aesthetics of obscenity” and its rejection of Kantian disinterestedness. I argue that Dorian Gray, while not explicitly describing taboo acts like modernist works such as Ulysses, is nev...
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Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès
2020-10-01
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| Series: | Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/miranda/27718 |