UID:
edocfu_9958356376302883
Format:
1 online resource(274p.) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2011. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9783839417454
Series Statement:
Lettre
Content:
»To define is to limit«, Lord Henry states, and Mrs. Dalloway »would not say of anyone [...] that they were this or that«. Why then are the respective novels mostly read - and in recent adaptations rewritten - in denial of their genuinely ambiguous designs? Bringing the two literary classics together for the first time, their shared concerns regarding textual and sexual identities are revealed. Challenging an established critical record commonly related to Oscar Wilde's and Virginia Woolf's own mythologised biographies, this study underscores the value of constantly rethinking labels by liberating the texts from the limiting grip of categorical readings.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgements --
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1. The Picture of Dorian Gray and Mrs. Dalloway --
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2. The Record So Far So Not Good --
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3. Queer Questioning: Sexed Texts --
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4. Dorian and Dalloway: A Comparison --
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5. Wilde Rewritings --
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6. Rewriting Woolf --
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7. Conclusion: Con-Fusion --
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8. Works Cited.
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.14361/transcript.9783839417454
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/transcript.9783839417454
