Dark Avunculate: Shame, Animality, and Queer Development in Oscar Wilde’s “The Star-Child”

Simonsen, Rasmus R.

doi:10.1353/chl.2014.0011

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“…ASASSN 14CC, CR Boo, and V803 Cen each show very similar high and low states of similar duration. Reminiscent of the standstills that are seen in Z Cam systems (Simonsen et al 2014), we see that CR Boo and V803 Cen have extended periods of time (>1 yr), where they are only seen in a high state. The remaining systems, with the exception of CX 361, show regular but much shorter SO, and do not appear to show evidence of standstills.…”

Section: Outburst Properties and Periodmentioning

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Evidence that short-period AM CVn systems are diverse in outburst behaviour

Duffy

Ramsay

Steeghs

et al. 2021

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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We present results of our analysis of up to 15 years of photometric data from eight AM CVn systems with orbital periods between 22.5 and 26.8 min. Our data has been collected from the GOTO, ZTF, Pan-STARRS, ASAS-SN and Catalina all-sky surveys and amateur observations collated by the AAVSO. We find evidence that these interacting ultra-compact binaries show a similar diversity of long term optical properties as the hydrogen accreting dwarf novae. We found that AM CVn systems in the previously identified accretion disc instability region are not a homogenous group. Various members of the analysed sample exhibit behaviour reminiscent of Z Cam systems with long super outbursts and standstills, SU UMa systems with regular, shorter super outbursts, and nova-like systems which appear only in a high state. The addition of TESS full frame images of one of these systems, KL Dra, reveals the first evidence for normal outbursts appearing as a precursor to super outbursts in an AM CVn system. Our results will inform theoretical modelling of the outbursts of hydrogen deficient systems.

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Section: Outburst Properties and Periodmentioning

confidence: 64%

Evidence that short-period AM CVn systems are diverse in outburst behaviour

Duffy

Ramsay

Steeghs

et al. 2021

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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“…The queer elements of Wilde's life and the sexual discrimination he experienced are intimately connected to his work. However, it is only recently that this has ceased to be treated as incidental in the academic literature (Simonsen 2014;Duffy 2001; Dierkes-Thrun 2011), and this has been the case for many other queer authors (see, Kramer 2014; Mateo 2010). In the 1880s, Wilde was openly performing in ways that did not conform to the gender/sexuality roles assigned in a heterosexist-homophobic society (Crompton 1985), yet he operated in a social environment that tolerated but did not legally accept homosexuality (Brasol 1975;Ellman 1987).…”

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“Kiss Me on the Lips, for I Love You” Over A Century of Heterosexism in the Spanish Translation of Oscar Wilde

Rojas‐Lizana

Tolton

Hannah

2018

IJCLTS

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The translation of sexuality has proven to be challenging throughout the times due to the dominant mores at the time of translation. Framed within Critical Translation Studies, this article examines cases of heterosexist manipulation in the Spanish translation of “The Happy Prince” by Oscar Wilde. It proposes that Wilde’s specific intent in using the fairy tale genre is not transmitted in any Spanish version of the story, from its first translation in 1900 to date (2018). We show that the translations manipulate both grammatical gender and sexuality in such a way that one of the messages of the story, the value of homosexual love, is omitted entirely to become the standard and conventional view of sexuality that dominates contemporary Western tradition. The article indicates the linguistic, stylistic and cultural choices that should be considered for a new translation of the story.

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Ecophobia and Social Class Identity: An Ecocritical Approach to the Nature/Culture Divide in Oscar Wilde’s Fairy Tales “The Young King” and “The Star Child”

Murga Aroca

2024

Neophilologus

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This article applies an ecocritical approach to the analysis of the nature/culture divide in Oscar Wilde’s “The Young King” and “The Star-Child”. These two tales contrast the realm of nature, embodied in the forest, and the realm of civilisation, represented by the city. Both stories focus on the protagonists’ journey from wilderness to the city, where not only do they need to become civilised subjects, but they are expected to govern as kings. This physical journey is matched by an internal one since both characters simultaneously undergo a transition from an animal-like state to a human one. I argue that these tales’ use of the nature/culture and animal/human dichotomies is closely connected to Wilde’s reflections about the Victorian social class system included in The Soul of Man under Socialism. Class struggle is indeed a major preoccupation in traditional folktales, where protagonists tend to magically escape from an initial disadvantaged position. Applying an ecocritical perspective to “The Young King” and “The Star-Child” helps to illustrate how these two tales manage to question the legitimacy of the hierarchical social structure by blurring the lines that separate the civilised subject from the animal one.

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Dark Avunculate: Shame, Animality, and Queer Development in Oscar Wilde’s “The Star-Child”

Cited by 3 publications

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Evidence that short-period AM CVn systems are diverse in outburst behaviour

Evidence that short-period AM CVn systems are diverse in outburst behaviour

“Kiss Me on the Lips, for I Love You” Over A Century of Heterosexism in the Spanish Translation of Oscar Wilde

Ecophobia and Social Class Identity: An Ecocritical Approach to the Nature/Culture Divide in Oscar Wilde’s Fairy Tales “The Young King” and “The Star Child”

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