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Art in life and Life in art: The function of art in “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
Halmstad University, School of Humanities (HUM).
1999 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor)Student thesis
Abstract [en]
“The story of Dorian Gray” can be read as a Bildungsroman. This is due to the function of art in the book. Oscar Wilde claims in the preface that all art is quite useless. This essay questions that claim, stating that art has asigificant function in the story: it imitates life and it affects life. There is a very difficult relationship between the concepts of art and life which is discussed and which shows that in “The picture of Dorian Gray” art makes a creative influence of the life of Dorian Gray. The protagonist goes through a process of expanding hid selfhood which indicates, together with some other features of the story, that it can be read as a Bildungsroman
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1999.
Keywords [en]
Art, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-8416Local ID: U2415OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-8416DiVA, id: diva2:363502
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Humanities, Theology
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Denna uppsats kan beställas från arkivet / This paper can be ordered from the archive. Kontakta / Contact: arkivet@hh.seAvailable from: 2010-11-09 Created: 2010-11-09Bibliographically approved

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