Setting the Record Queer: Rethinking Oscar Wilde's »The Picture of Dorian Gray« and Virginia Woolf's »Mrs. Dalloway« (Lettre) - Softcover

Schulz, Dirk

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9783837617450: Setting the Record Queer: Rethinking Oscar Wilde's »The Picture of Dorian Gray« and Virginia Woolf's »Mrs. Dalloway« (Lettre)
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ISBN 10: 3837617459 ISBN 13: 9783837617450
Publisher: transcript publishing, 2011

Synopsis

»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 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 Oscar Wilde's and Virginia Woolf's own mythologised 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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About the Author

Dirk Schulz (Dr. phil.) ist Geschäftsführer der zentralen wissenschaftlichen Einrichtung GeStiK (Gender Studies in Köln) an der Universität zu Köln.

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Publisher
transcript publishing
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3837617459
ISBN 13 
9783837617450
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
274
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