Poetics of fantasy and personality coherence in oscar wilde’s: the picture of Dorian Gray

الملخص EN

In the picture of Dorian gray, Oscar Wilde turned to the forms of fantasy in order to create what he considered an artistic language.

in particular, he explored fantastic methods for surprising readers; these methods involved exposing as well as contradicting their expectations of unambiguous information in artistic writing.

because criticism of fantasy in the last quarter of the twentieth century often contradicts the conventional definition of fantasy as an escapist mode, the paper surveys a few significant critics of fantasy-like eric rabkin, leo bersani, rosemary Jackson and w.r.

irwin-who have drawn our attention to fantasy‟s formal operations and to fantasy‟s implications that a self which is truly free lacks identity.