Oscar Wilde, the Short Story Writer
- Autores: Regina Martínez Ponciano
- Directores de la Tesis: Jorge Sacido Romero (dir. tes.), Laura María Lojo Rodríguez (dir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universidade de Santiago de Compostela ( España ) en 2024
- Idioma: inglés
- Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Emmanuel Vernadakis (presid.), Manuela Palacios González (secret.), Carmen Lara Rallo (voc.)
- Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Estudios Ingleses Avanzados: Lingüística, Literatura y Cultura por la Universidad de A Coruña; la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela y la Universidad de Vigo
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- Tesis en acceso abierto en: MINERVA
- Resumen
This 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".
