'Little Porcelain Cup in Which Biting Acids Could Be Mixed': Wilde's Sons as the Audience for 'The Young King'
| Autoři | |
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| Rok publikování | 2004 |
| Druh | Článek ve sborníku |
| Konference | New Interpretations of Cultural Phenomena |
| Fakulta / Pracoviště MU | |
| Citace | |
| Obor | Písemnictví, mas-media, audiovize |
| Klíčová slova | Henry James; Oscar Wilde; fairy tales |
| Popis | By way of a close reading of Oscar Wilde's short story 'The Young King', this paper reveals the pederastic playfulness only barely disguised in his House of Pomegranates, a collection of fairy tales that Wilde dubiously claimed had not been written with children as its intended audience, though biographical evidence suggests that he had specifically chosen this genre - traditionally rather innocuous in its English variety - as a vehicle for what can be dubbed 'Paedobapistry'. |