Quem tem medo de Oscar Wilde? vida como obra-de-arte

• Ano de defesa: 2012
• Autor(a) principal: Corvini, Helena de Lima
• Orientador(a): Werneck, Mariza Martins Furquim
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Ciências Sociais
• Departamento: Ciências Sociais
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Oscar Wilde; Era vitoriana tardia; Masculinidade; Teoria da inversão; Homossexualidade; Literatura; Decadentismo; Esteticismo; Dandismo; Dorian Gray; Paradoxo; Inversão simbólica; Camp
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Late victorian era; Masculinity; Invertion theory; Homossexuality; Literature; Decadentism; Aestheticism; Dandism; Paradox; Symbolic invertion; Camp
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/3400

This present dissertation intends to accompany Oscar Wilde's steps through late Victorian London, the booming center of an already decadent Empire. At this time being, positivist and imperialist discourses explain the reality. Both the medical science and the law fight over the theme of homosexuality. In a time when the symbolic authority to name homosexual desire is being questioned, Wilde is brave enough to state the precedence of the artist in naming the world. His life and works cause exalted reactions. His excentricities outrage London's high-society, of which Wilde becomes the arbiter of elegance, despite being a complete outsider: Irish and homosexual. He lives Aestheticism and dandism to the fullest, he lives a purposedly gay lifestyle and excites the fear of exerting some sort of "corruption" or "influence" over young men of the British society. His writing, through the use of paradoxes and symbolic invertions, shows the underpinnings of the aparently neutral text of normative reality. In his judgment, he is turned into the scapegoat of a severely repressed and puritan society. His works have founded the camp sensibility and a decidedly homosexual aesthetics