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Setting the record queer : rethinking Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" /
"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 literar...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bielefeld [Germany] :
Transcript,
[2011]
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| Colección: | Lettre (Transcript (Firm))
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The picture of Dorian Gray and Mrs. Dalloway : a joint adventure
- 2. The record so far so not good
- 3. Queer questioning : sexed texts. Queer interrogations : what's in a name? ; Roland Barthes and textual performativity : against mythologies ; Judith Butler and sexual performativity : as a mater of pact
- 4. Dorian and Dalloway : a comparison. The semiological value : discomforting texts ; The ideological substance : composed so for the world only
- 5. Wilde rewritings. Jeremy Reed : Dorian, a sequel to The picture of Dorian Gray ; Will Self : Dorian, an imitation
- 6. Rewriting Woolf. Robin Lippincott : Mr. Dalloway ; Michael Cunningham : The hours
- 7. Conclusion con-fusion.