“Into the Exquisitely Obscure”: Aestheticism and Fragmentation in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
This paper aims at tracing a link between early literary works, namely via French Décadence, the notion of Art for Art’s Sake and the trope of doubleness, concepts that intertwine both independent self-assertion and the defeat of Man by Nature as these come to be represented in Oscar Wilde’s The...
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| Language: | English |
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Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
2022-04-01
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| Series: | English Literature |
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| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2022/01/004 |