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The use of symbols in Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
Date Submitted: 08/16/2002 07:07:54
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THE USE OF SYMBOLS IN OSCAR WILDE'S THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY What is a symbol? In the broadest sense of the word, a symbol can be anything that signifies something else (Peepre: 58). Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure's dyadic theory of signs can well be applied when talking of literary symbols; after all, symbols are signs and vice versa. Central concepts in Saussure's theory are signifier and signified, which together constitute the sign itself. In …
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…brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow /victorian/decadence/wilde/dawson16.html Dawson, Terence: Basil, Lord Henry, and Wilde: A Jungian Approach to The Picture of Dorian Gray, http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/decadence/wilde/dawson15.html Fraile, Isabel: Taking Risks: A reading of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray ftp://fyl.unizar.es/PUB/MISCELANEA/15/FRAILE.ZIP File homepage: http://www.ipl.org/cgi-bin/ref/litcrit/litcrit.out.pl?ti=pic-226
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