The Commodified Happiness: The Only Established Source of Meaning in Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince and The Nightingale and the Rose
Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales are not as well-recognised as his novel or his dramatic works. This paper circles around two of his tales, The Happy Prince and The Nightingale and the Rose. Through a postmodernist outlook, this study postulates the vigorous diatribe of Wilde against the consumer culture w...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Charles University
2022-07-01
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Series: | Prague Journal of English Studies |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/pjes-2022-0003 |