"The Picture of Dorian Gray": Wilde's Parable of the Fall

Oates, Joyce Carol

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“…Gillespie, 1995;Manganiello, 1983;) ; a much wider number of studies have been tracing Wilde, his desires, and life style within the novel as a kind of implied autobiography (e.g. Nethercot, 1944;Baker, 1969;Oates, 1980;Danson, 1991;Lane, 1994;Leckrone, 1999;Adu, 2005;Snider, 2009). furthermore, a more recent attention is devoted to the study of National considerations (e.g.…”

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Oscar Wilde as a Temporal Designer: A Case Study of The Picture of Dorian Gray

Behin

Khiabani

2014

IJALEL

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Since the publication of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, there have been great amounts of ideological criticism both for and against the author and the work. Critics have variously evaluated the work from different perspectives; however, these studies have largely targeted the thematic aspects of the novel, while little serious attempt has been made to examine the narrativity of this great work. As a result, the narrative structure of this novel still remains quite untouched. As a partial fulfillment, the present paper has examined the temporal structure of the novel. The analysis indicated that temporality is one of the very functional elements of the work. In fact, much of the meaning or the effect the author intends to converse through each action, character, or dialogue is firstly embedded in a proper and effective temporal setting. Moreover, the analysis ascertained that the well-set temporal structure of the work has resulted in (1) Ekphrasis, (2) Characterization, and (3) Reader manipulation. According to the paper, these three elements dramatically carry out the influentiality of this great novel.

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Oscar Wilde as a Temporal Designer: A Case Study of The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Khiabani

2014

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“…His subject position in relation to the portrait does not solve the issues of morality and authorship. Oates (1980) comments that the equivocation of the book leaves the reader with the feeling that the book is unfinished since what the reader can possibly get from the novel is "this sense of something riddling and incomplete"( p.420). This gainsays any accusation of immorality.…”

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If Looks Could Kill: Looking Through the Artist’s Lenses in Oscar Wilde’s the Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)

Ghazel

2019

SSRN Journal

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This paper investigates aestheticism and authorship in the Oscar Wilde's only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). Victorian literature is usually read against the relationship between art and reality. The literary merit of a book is determined by the degree of its conformity with the moral values of the time. This paper offers a detached reading of the novel where the value of the book is found in its ability to initiate the reader into an aesthetic world. The research argues that Wilde fragments the act of artistic creation among the artist (the painter Basil), the sitter (Dorian Gray) and the audience (Lord Henry Wotton). This fragmentation renders the novel aesthetically autonomous from its reality. Aesthetic autonomy contributes to the debate of morality in Victorian literature by placing the work of art in an alternative sphere where normative values cease to apply.

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Theatre and Theory in the Language of Dorian Gray

Hannon¹

1991

Victorian Lit. Culture

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"The Picture of Dorian Gray": Wilde's Parable of the Fall

Cited by 6 publications

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Oscar Wilde as a Temporal Designer: A Case Study of The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde as a Temporal Designer: A Case Study of The Picture of Dorian Gray

If Looks Could Kill: Looking Through the Artist’s Lenses in Oscar Wilde’s the Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)

Theatre and Theory in the Language of Dorian Gray

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