Swinburne’s The Statue of John Brute

Swinburne’s The Statue of John Brute
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 97
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ISBN-10 : 9781527510456
ISBN-13 : 152751045X
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Book Synopsis Swinburne’s The Statue of John Brute by : Fabio Ciambella

Download or read book Swinburne’s The Statue of John Brute written by Fabio Ciambella and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wrongly believed to be a parodic divertissement by the nineteenth-century English poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Statue of John Brute reveals itself as a highly interesting intertextual universe where echoes from Shakespeare, the Restauration drama, Beckford, Gothic fiction, and many other sources of inspiration mix together in an extremely short but explosive text. At the heart of this volume is an absolutely original analysis of this relatively unknown text, meant to acknowledge its paramount importance as Oscar Wilde’s source for his well-known The Picture of Dorian Gray. While trying to confute the hypotheses put forward by critics from the 1920s and 1930s who believed The Statue to be a fin-de-siècle parody of Wilde’s Aesthetic masterpiece, this study anticipates its date of composition by almost twenty years – through an accurate bio-literary and corpus-stylistic analysis – thus recognising it not as a parody, but as a possible hypotext of Dorian Gray.


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