RT Dissertation/Thesis
T1 Oscar Wilde, the Short Story Writer
A1 Martínez Ponciano, Regina
K1 Oscar Wilde
K1 short story
K1 short fiction
K1 liminality
K1 monsters
AB This doctoral dissertation aims to validate Oscar Wilde as ashort story writer in the fullest extent of the expression. Thethirteen narratives of The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888),Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories (1891), andA House of Pomegranates (1891) demonstrate that Wilde wasnot just writing stories that were short: they display aprofound awareness of and playful attitude toward theaffordances of the short story form and the late Victorianpublishing industry. This aim is achieved through a combinationof 1) a critical literature review, 2) evidence-basedreconstructions of collections' histories and (con)texts, and 3)analyses of the liminality in and of three selected shortstories: “The Selfish Giant”, “The Canterville Ghost”, “TheBirthday of the Infanta".
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/33517
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/33517
LA eng
DS Minerva
RD 4 may 2026