Setting the Record Queer: Rethinking Oscar Wilde's the Picture of Dorian Gray and Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway - Brossura

Schulz, Dirk

Brossura

ISBN 10: 3837617459 ISBN 13: 9783837617450

Casa editrice: Transcript Verlag, 2011

Riassunto

“To define is to limit,” Lord Henry Wotton 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 literary classics together for the first time, their shared concerns regarding textual and sexual identities are revealed. Challenging an established critical record commonly related to Wilde’s and Woolf’s own mythologized biographies, this study underscores the value of constantly rethinking labels by liberating the texts from the limiting grip of categorical readings.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Dirk Schulz is a postdoctoral researcher at the English Department of the University of Cologne, where he teaches courses on anglophone literature and culture, and is editorial assistant of Gender Forum. An Internet Journal for Gender Studies. His fields of interest include literary and cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies, semiotics, the gothic, popular culture and critical theory.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Transcript Verlag
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3837617459
• ISBN 13: 9783837617450
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 274
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile