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Little Porcelain Cup in Which Biting Acids Could Be Mixed?: Wilde?s Sons as the Audience for ?The Young King?

Authors: Kaylor Michael M.

Year: 2004

Type of publication: článek ve sborníku

Name of source: New Interpretations of Cultural Phenomena

Publisher name: Univerzita Pardubice

Place: Pardubice

Page from-to: 23-32

Titles:

Language	Name	Abstract	Keywords
cze			Oscar Wilde, Alfred Douglas, homosexualita, pohádky, dekadence, Viktoriánská literatura
eng	Little Porcelain Cup in Which Biting Acids Could Be Mixed?: Wilde?s Sons as the Audience for ?The Young King?	This paper is a close reading of Oscar Wilde?s pederastic tour de force ?The Young King?, a fairy tale written with his sons Cyril and Vyvyan as the principal audience, sons whom Wilde seems to have intended to follow in his own heavy, Decadent footsteps, footsteps left across their nursery in the form of fairy tales. The argument here hinges on biographical details and letters, which provide a context for the subversive atmosphere with which Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred surrounded these boys ? and the Decadent results.	Oscar Wilde, Alfred Douglas, pederasty, homosexuality, fairy tales, Decadence, Victorian literature

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