Seeking an immortality through love : the reading of Oscar Wilde’s the picture of Dorian Gray and Angela Carter‘s the passion of new eve as appropriations of platonic ideals

This essay explores the idea of the immortality of love as discussed in Plato's Symposium. Dealing in depth with Aristophanes and Diotima's ideology in the subject matter, it explores the origin of the contemporary notion of heterosexual, homosexual relationships and how this acts towards...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jananee Yegambaram
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format: Final Year Project (FYP)
Language:English
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/50590