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Article: Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' and 'Salome.'.(Oscar Wilde's novel and play, respectively)
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- The Explicator
- Article date:
- September 22, 1998
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The Picture of Dorian Gray is full of references to earlier writers and literary works. Much of what the character Lord Henry Wotton says at the beginning of the novel, for instance, is derived from Pater's Renaissance. The Sybil Vane chapters are dominated by Shakespearean allusions, and chapter 11 is built around a mysterious yellow book that has strong affinities with Huysmans's A Rebours. More specific reference also abound. Sybil Vane says to Dorian, "I have grown sick of shadows" (71), echoing Tennyson's "Lady of Shalott." Basil Hallward is said to have become ecstatic over Tintoretto on one of his trips to Venice--a specific identification with Ruskin, who had a ...
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Article: CHARACTER DESIGN IN THE PICTURE OF DORIAN ...
Studies in the Novel;
September 22, 1999 ;
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