Lojo Rodríguez, Laura MaríaSacido Romero, JorgeMartínez Ponciano, Regina2024-04-162024http://hdl.handle.net/10347/33517This doctoral dissertation aims to validate Oscar Wilde as a short story writer in the fullest extent of the expression. The thirteen narratives of The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888), Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories (1891), and A House of Pomegranates (1891) demonstrate that Wilde was not just writing stories that were short: they display a profound awareness of and playful attitude toward the affordances of the short story form and the late Victorian publishing industry. This aim is achieved through a combination of 1) a critical literature review, 2) evidence-based reconstructions of collections' histories and (con)texts, and 3) analyses of the liminality in and of three selected short stories: “The Selfish Giant”, “The Canterville Ghost”, “The Birthday of the Infanta".engAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Oscar Wildeshort storyshort fictionliminalitymonsters570107 Lengua y literaturadoctoral thesisopen access