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Oscar Wilde's "The Critic as Artist" is shown to foreshadow some key concepts of poststructuralist interpretive theory - such as the necessary interplay of blindness and insight in criticism (Lacan, Paul de Man), or the retroactive effect of interpretation in the construction of the work. More specifically, Wilde's reading of the riddle of the Sphinx in a passage of this work both theorizes and dramatizes the paradoxical relationship between blindness and insight, in the shape of an ironic prophecy which can be read as Wilde's announcement of his own tragic downfall - in which there is an element of compulsive acting out that has been noted by a number of previous critics. That is, Wilde's Sphinx is used as the vehicle of a riddle about Wilde himself, and is an emblem of his own ambivalent attitude toward the public revelation of his homosexuality.
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Wilde and the Riddle of the Sphinx
Date posted: January 14, 2008
http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1082721
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_____. "Wilde y el enigma de la Esfinge." Online PDF at Zaguán 23 April 2009.*
2009
_____. "Wilde y el enigma de la Esfinge." ResearchGate 15 April 2012.*
2012
_____. "Wilde y el enigma de la Esfinge (Wilde and the
Riddle of the Sphinx). PhilPapers 28
Jan. 2009.*
2013
_____. "Wilde y el enigma de la Esfinge." Academia 26 Dec. 2015.*
2015
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