“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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Main Author: Coimbra, Claudia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari 2022-04-01
Series:English Literature
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Online Access:http://doi.org/10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2022/01/004