Retro-Victorianism and the simulacrum of art in Will Self's Dorian: An imitation by Yebra Pertusa, José María

“…This essay aims at exploring Will Self’s novel Dorian: An Imitation (2002) as a postmodernist revision of Oscar Wilde’s celebrated The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). Exceptional for ones, immoral and shameful for others, Dorian: An Imitation fosters an intertextual relation with the late-Victorian hypotext whereby both texts are transformed out of a refractory process. …”
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"Penny Dreadful" (2014-2016). Postmodern mythology and ontology of otherness by Lourdes Monterrubio-Ibáñez

“…The television series Penny Dreadful (2014-2016) is an appropriation, intertextuality and transfiction exercise of four modern myths from nineteenth-century literature –Frankenstein (Mary Shelley, 1818), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde, 1891) and Dracula (Bram Stoker, 1897)– to which the mythological figure of the lycanthrope is added. …”
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Monstrueuse convergence ? Penny Dreadful, ou la littérature à l’épreuve de la transmédialité by Sébastien Lefait

“…Indeed, the series strangely blends Shakespeare with The Exorcist, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein with The Phantom of the Opera, The Picture of Dorian Gray with An American Werewolf in London. …”
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SEMIOTIC AND COMMUNICATIVE STATUS OF PICTORIAL AND VERBAL TEXT (transformation, translation, coexistence) by І. М. Колегаєва

“…The opposite process of transforming a pictorial text into its verbal description is regarded on the material of museum catalogue articles and belles-lettres text with pictures as sources of plot development (such as J.Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray”). Coexistence of each of the discussed types of messages and their mutual impact upon the communicative result of polycode messages are analyzed on the material of illustrated texts, guide books, academic writing. …”
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A comparison of the motifs of artist's obsession in „The Tattooer“ by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō and „Tale of a Mad Painter“ by Kim Dong-in by Anela Ilijaš

“…Results revealed that these two works were written under the influence of the same literary works: the theme of the relationship between art and violence and the motif of the artist obsessed with the desire to create an artistic masterpiece in The Tattooer and Tale of a Mad Painter are most likely inspired by Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Oval Portrait, while motifs of sexual perversions are inspired by Psychopathia Sexualis by Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing. …”
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Oscar Wilde and the paternal figure. by Goh, Yi Li.

“…I would like to investigate the impact of this lack of paternal influence in Wilde’s life and work by applying Jacques Lacan’s version of psychoanalysis to three of Wilde’s texts – The Picture of Dorian Gray, Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest. …”
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Penny Dreadful ou comment la littérature peut-elle donner naissance à une série ? by Isabelle Périer

“…It is this rich tapestry that I intend to examine.The story and its characters are openly intertextual, using Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Oscar Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray, and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. This simple list gives an idea of the treatment the characters receive: they are tools to enter a transactional universe where the viewer must navigate between the pleasure of novelty and that of recognition. …”
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Wilkie Collins and Oscar Wilde: Challenging Intersections Between the Male and Female Gaze in Victorian Popular Literature by Leah Henderson

“…Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White (1860) and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) are novels significant for their distinct awareness of the socio-political power of the gaze. …”
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Cross-dressing women in the cinema of the Russian Empire, 1910-1917 by Stasya Korotkova

“…The article devotes special attention to Portret Doriana Greia / The Picture of Dorian Gray (Vsevolod Meyerhold, 1915, Russian Empire), in which the actress Varvara Ianova played the eponymous role. …”
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Descobrindo a beleza além da aparência: construindo sentidos na Língua inglesa a partir da Pedagogia dos multiletramentos by Wilfrid Albuquerque de Souza, Francieli Freudenberger Martiny

“…Tal vivência ocorreu durante a atuação dos autores no programa Pibid Letras Inglês da UFPB, em que desenvolveram o projeto "Descobrindo a Beleza para Além da Aparência: Uma abordagem de The Picture of Dorian Gray". Essa ação intencionou explorar noções pertinentes à Pedagogia dos Multiletramentos (Cazden et al., 1996; Cope; Kalantzis, 2015; Martins, 2021) no contexto de ensino de LI com alunos de 2º ano de Ensino Médio. …”
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Embracing and Rejecting the Ruskinian Heritage in Wilde’s Aesthetic Theories by Carole Delhorme

“…Yet, almost ten years later, as Wilde rejects imitation in Intentions (1891) and dissociates art and utility in the Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), his theories run counter to Ruskin’s teachings. …”
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VocabProfile: uma ferramenta linguístico-estatística para a aula de língua inglesa by Eduardo Batista Silva

“…A fim de exemplificar o funcionamento do software, utilizamos inicialmente um trecho da obra literária escrita em língua inglesa e de domínio público: The Picture of Dorian Gray. Na página de resultados, o texto é recortado em partes que são indicadas em quatro categorias: 1) K1 words: as primeiras 1000 palavras mais freqüentes da língua inglesa, as palavras fundamentais, 2) K2 words: as próximas 1000 palavras mais freqüentes da língua inglesa, 3) AWL: As palavras utilizadas em textos científicos de diversas áreas de especialidades e 4) OFF-list: As palavras “difíceis” que não se encontram em nenhuma das outras três listas anteriormente mencionadas. …”
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Negotiating Irvin Yalom’s existential concerns through the grotesque in selected works of Oscar Wilde and Yukio Mishima by Seach, Jin Beng

“…Textual analysis of four selected texts by Victorian author, Oscar Wilde and Post-war Japanese author Yukio Mishima namely The Canterville Ghost (1891), The Picture of Dorian Gray (1892), Confessions of a Mask (1949) and Forbidden Colours (1951) will be conducted to portray the flexibility of the grotesque as an alternative for the characters in reacting to existential concerns. …”
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Lounging Men, Standing Women: Pose and Posture in the Aesthetic Interior by Richard W. Hayes

“…Published the year before Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, the novel is set, like Wilde’s, in the two most characteristic milieux of British Aestheticism: an artist’s studio and a theatre. …”
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The New Hellenism: Oscar Wilde and ancient Greece by Ross, IA

“…Thus I examine the role of Aristotle’s Ethics in 'The Soul of Man Under Socialism’ and of Platonism in the critical dialogues, The Picture of Dorian Gray and ‘The Portrait of Mr W.H.’ I present The Importance of Being Earnest as a self-conscious exercise in the New Comedy of Menander, concluding that Wilde ultimately returned to the anachronistic eclecticism of the Renaissance attitude to ancient texts.…”

La storia della lavorazione dell’argilla nel bacino di Venetico - Fondachello. Un profilo del territorio tra archeologia industriale e turismo educativo by Sergio Spinnato

“…With these words Oscar Wilde, British poet and novelist, inside of his masterpiece The picture of Dorian Gray, if on the one hand he underlines the value of clay by comparing it to the most precious of materials, that is gold, on the other he manages to admirably summarize the importance of fire within the clay manufacturing process. …”
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Penny Dreadful: Rastros de clássicos góticos em palimpsesto televisivo de horror by Vanessa Davino

“…Em 2014 o roteirista americano John Logan reuniu o DNA de clássicos como Frankenstein (1818), The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) e Dracula (1897) na série televisiva Penny Dreadful exibida no canal Showtime, mostrando que uma tradução não só revitaliza ecos do passado, mas também possibilita o acesso de clássicos para um determinado público que não teve a oportunidade de apreciá-los no universo literário. …”
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