Seeking the "Irish Dimension" in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray: "What Does This Mean?".
What is the so-called "Irish dimension" in Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray ? This article evaluates three recent searches for Irish meanings in novel and situates the authors' methodologies within a broader debate about intersections between contemporary literary-critical techniques and the post-...
| Published in: | English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 Vol. 63; no. 4; pp. 533 - 559 |
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| Format: | Literary Criticism |
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2020
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