What’s in a Name : la masculinité à l’épreuve de Shakespeare relu par Wilde
Wilde revisits Shakespeare’s Sonnets to hint at their homoerotic contents. His short story, The Portrait of Mr. W. H., is an occasion to promote a form of attachment between male late Victorians who try to crack the identity of the poems’ male dedicatee. More generally, it is the constructedness of...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Pléiade (EA 7338)
2010-12-01
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| Series: | Itinéraires |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/itineraires/1702 |
| Summary: | Wilde revisits Shakespeare’s Sonnets to hint at their homoerotic contents. His short story, The Portrait of Mr. W. H., is an occasion to promote a form of attachment between male late Victorians who try to crack the identity of the poems’ male dedicatee. More generally, it is the constructedness of masculinity that Wilde makes it possible to formulate, in a synthetic approach to both masculinity and literature. In consequence, his investigation into the Shakespearean poems contributes to positing the textual nature of masculinity, and therefore its fundamental openness to intervention. |
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| ISSN: | 2427-920X |