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WIlde Themes 1
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● -Sensationalism and the spectacular
● -On trial, legally and socially (justice) ● -The (un)making of the self—issues of identity ○ Power roles ● -The Angel in the House |
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Wilde themes 2
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● Secrets, panopticon
● Detection, the detective ● Social conquest, repression, sexuality, marriage, the pursuit of pleasure ● Imposture, the double, identity ● Angel in the House vs. Identity |
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yellow book
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sense of evil
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guilt by association
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○ -Big part of Carson’s argument revolves around Wilde and his association with homosexual documents. “Priest and the Acolyte”
○ -If Wilde did not actively speak against these “sodomitic” works, he endorses sodomy |
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constructing narrative/ counter narrative
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○ Wilde’s downfall is that he is more or less too proud to come up with a different narrative to what Carsonis constructing
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Big 3 characters
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Gray, basil, Sybil
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