Queer (dis)orientation in Oscar Wilde's "The Portrait of Mr W.H." (1889)

dc.centroFacultad de Filosofía y Letrases_ES
dc.contributor.authorHueso-Vasallo, Manuel
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-05T10:27:18Z
dc.date.available2025-06-05T10:27:18Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.departamentoFilología Inglesa, Francesa y Alemanaes_ES
dc.description.abstractFollowing Sara Ahmed’s conceptualisation of queer phenomenology, this paper addresses how a relatively lesser-known short story by Oscar Wilde, “The Portrait of Mr W.H.” (1889) can be read as an orientation device towards the different artistic discourses of the past that inform queer culture and historiography. In the story, a cast of unreliable characters become obsessed with a forgery that attempts to pass as the original portrait of Shakespeare’s muse: Mr W.H. By positing this portrait as a point of historic and artistic conflict, the narrative turns its back to heteronormative realities and (dis)orientates both the characters and the readers, creating a queer effect.es_ES
dc.description.sponsorshipProyecto de investigación 'Orientation: Towards a Dynamic Understanding of Contemporary Fiction and Culture (1990s-2000s)', financiado por el Ministerio Español de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades.es_ES
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10630/38881
dc.language.isoenges_ES
dc.relation.eventdate17-18 junio 2021es_ES
dc.relation.eventplaceOnlinees_ES
dc.relation.eventtitleNew Voices in English Studies: 7th ASYRAS Conferencees_ES
dc.rights.accessRightsopen accesses_ES
dc.subjectTeoría queeres_ES
dc.subjectWilde, Oscar (1854-1900) - Crítica e interpretaciónes_ES
dc.subjectHomosexualidad en la literaturaes_ES
dc.subject.otherOscar Wildees_ES
dc.subject.otherSara Ahmedes_ES
dc.subject.otherOrientationes_ES
dc.titleQueer (dis)orientation in Oscar Wilde's "The Portrait of Mr W.H." (1889)es_ES
dc.typeconference outputes_ES
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