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Research paper thumbnail of Art as Artifice: Deploying Oscar Wilde's "The Decay of Lying"

We shall begin with a digression, even if it does seem odd to preface a discussion—as we will do ... more We shall begin with a digression, even if it does seem odd to preface a discussion—as we will do in earnest—of the theoretical-critical implications of " The Decay of Lying " with a relation between, on the one hand, the life of Oscar Wilde, the decadent, iconoclastic aesthete, and on the other, the modern conception of tragedy as crystallized by many modernists including Arthur Miller in his " Tragedy and the Common Man."

Research paper thumbnail of Art as Artifice: Deploying Oscar Wilde's "The Decay of Lying"

We shall begin with a digression, even if it does seem odd to preface a discussion—as we will do ... more We shall begin with a digression, even if it does seem odd to preface a discussion—as we will do in earnest—of the theoretical-critical implications of " The Decay of Lying " with a relation between, on the one hand, the life of Oscar Wilde, the decadent, iconoclastic aesthete, and on the other, the modern conception of tragedy as crystallized by many modernists including Arthur Miller in his " Tragedy and the Common Man."

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