Retro-Victorianism and the simulacrum of art in Will Self's Dorian: An imitation
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Título: | Retro-Victorianism and the simulacrum of art in Will Self's Dorian: An imitation |
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Autor/es: | Yebra Pertusa, José María |
Palabras clave: | English literature | Self, Will | Dorian: An Imitation | Wilde, Oscar | The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Área/s de conocimiento: | Filología Inglesa |
Fecha de publicación: | nov-2010 |
Editor: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Filología Inglesa |
Cita bibliográfica: | YEBRA PERTUSA, José María. “Retro-Victorianism and the simulacrum of art in Will Self's Dorian: An imitation”. Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses. No. 23 (Nov. 2010). ISSN 0214-4808, pp. 231-247 |
Resumen: | This essay aims at exploring Will Self’s novel Dorian: An Imitation (2002) as a postmodernist revision of Oscar Wilde’s celebrated The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). Exceptional for ones, immoral and shameful for others, Dorian: An Imitation fosters an intertextual relation with the late-Victorian hypotext whereby both texts are transformed out of a refractory process. Like its predecessor, Self’s novel is primarily interested in aesthetic issues. In this light, my main concern consists in analysing the artistic discourses that Dorian: An Imitation reflects and deflects in the era of simulation. Likewise, I examine how the novel delves into the problematic relationship between “reality” and “fiction”, original and simulacra. At the turn of the millennium, when virtual reality/ies are generated by computers, literature has a challenge which, in my view, Self’s novel deals with. Thus, from the theories of simulation proposed by Jean Baudrillard and, to a lesser extent, Gilles Deleuze, my essay confronts Dorian as a valuable text: it adapts the discourse of new technologies to literary language; it goes into the postmodernist ontological crisis; and, finally, it opens up the debate of aesthetic interaction between the canon and new literatures. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/17433 | http://dx.doi.org/10.14198/raei.2010.23.13 |
ISSN: | 0214-4808 | 2171-861X (Internet) |
DOI: | 10.14198/raei.2010.23.13 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Revisión científica: | si |
Aparece en las colecciones: | Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses - 2010, No. 23 |
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