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The use of symbols in Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
Title: The use of symbols in Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
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The use of symbols in Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
THE USE OF SYMBOLS IN OSCAR WILDE'S THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
What is a symbol? In the broadest sense of the word, a symbol can be anything that signifies something else (Peepre: 58). Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure's dyadic theory of signs can well be applied when talking of literary symbols; after all, symbols are signs and vice versa. Central concepts in Saussure's theory are signifier and signified, which together constitute the sign itself. In …showed first 75 words of 1333 total…
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Dawson, Terence: Basil, Lord Henry, and Wilde: A Jungian Approach to The Picture of Dorian Gray,
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/decadence/wilde/dawson15.html
Fraile, Isabel: Taking Risks: A reading of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
ftp://fyl.unizar.es/PUB/MISCELANEA/15/FRAILE.ZIP
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