Función y significado de la figura grotesca en "The Birthday of the Infanta"

  1. Sanz Casares, María Concepción
Journal:
ES: Revista de filología inglesa

ISSN: 0210-9689

Year of publication: 1992

Issue: 16

Pages: 77-84

Type: Article

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Abstract

We have written this article with a double purpose. First, we wanted to find Oscar Wilde's own intention in writing this tale by analysing how and why he has made so lavish a use of the grotesque in it. And at the same time we have tried to prove that, as the author constantly claimed, there may be more than one answer to these questions depending on the readers' viewpoint, or the way they focus their own study.