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-...

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Published in:English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 Vol. 63; no. 4; pp. 533 - 559
Main Author: Haslam, Richard
Format: Literary Criticism
Published: ELT Press 2020
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      ab: 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-truth era. The argument here is that allegorizing interpretation, which treats literary texts as if they were parables about their historical contexts, obstructs not only the accurate identification of The Picture of Dorian Gray 's "Irish dimension[s]" but also the methodological and pedagogical strategies needed to dispel the inadvertent replication of post-truth techniques in current Wildean scholarship. [97 words]
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