Setting the Record Queer : : Rethinking Oscar Wilde's »The Picture of Dorian Gray« and Virginia Woolf's »Mrs. Dalloway« / / Dirk Schulz.
»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 f...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | 1. Aufl. |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1. The Picture of Dorian Gray and Mrs. Dalloway
- 2. The Record So Far So Not Good
- 3. Queer Questioning: Sexed Texts
- 4. Dorian and Dalloway: A Comparison
- 5. Wilde Rewritings
- 6. Rewriting Woolf
- 7. Conclusion: Con-Fusion
- 8. Works Cited