The Picture of Dorian Gray
pour l’épreuve d’anglais langue de complément
au baccalauréat général série L
Session 2007 : David Copperfield
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1. Le matériel pédagogique utilisé en classe : 16 questionnaires à rendre. Les corrigés seront publiés au fur et à mesure. Les quinze derniers travaux (dix extraits et cinq problématiques) correspondent à la liste de textes qui sera présentée au baccalauréat.
2. Des documents annexes et des liens vers des sites internet vous permettant de mieux connaître le contexte de l’œuvre.
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web resources
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Etext of The Picture of Dorian Gray at Project Gutenberg.
Criticism
- A website based on Koen Van Cauwenberge’s dissertation, The Ambivalence in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and its relation to Postmodernism.
- A paper about “Aestheticism and Social Anxiety in The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Professor at Nagoya University.
- A paper by Barbara T. Gates, Alumni Distinguished Professor of English, University of Delaware.
- A paper on the figure of the dandy in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Terence Dawson, Senior Lecturer, National University of Singapore. Follow the links at the bottom of the page.
- A forum dedicated to the novel.
Oscar Wilde
The Oscar Wilde homepage
Oscariana
The Oscar Wilde section of The Victorian Web
Electronic texts of works by Wilde at Project Gutenberg.
The Trials of Oscar Wilde at University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
General context
The Victorian Web.
The biography of Queen Victoria on the Royal family’s official website.
Artistic context
An article on the aesthetic movement at Wikipedia.
A website dediacted to Walter Pater, the writer who is generally considered to have initiated the aesthetic movement in England.
The Swinburne Project, a website dedicated to A. C. Swinburne and featuring Swinburne etexts.
Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience, which satirizes the movement
- Art nouveau: the generic term used to refer to a number of modern styles in graphic arts and architecture which developed in the late nineteenth century in Europe (Vienna, Paris, Glasgow, Prague, Budapest, Barcelona...): an introduction at ArtLex.
Art Nouveau Network, offering a few examples of Art Nouveau across Europe.
Related works and topics
1. Richard Wagner. The German composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883) is arguably the most influential artist in over 150 years. The operas he wrote, music and librettos, were so innovative and consistent that no writer or thinker, let alone musician, could ignore them. This defining position of Wagner lasted well into the twentieth century: one may find numerous references to his work in the writings of Marcel Proust (1871-1922), D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) or Thomas Mann (1875-1955), to name but a few. Wilde is no exception and in The Picture of Dorian Gray, he refers to two of Wagner’s operas:
- Tannhäuser’s Rome Narrative from Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser sung by Lauritz Melchior in 1929 (7.5 Mo) and the words in German with their translation.
An overview of Tannhäuser on a French Wagner site.
An article on Tannhäuser at Wikipedia.
- Lohengrin’s Graal Narrative from Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin sung by Franz Völker in 1927 (4 Mo) and the words.
An overview of Lohengrin on a French Wagner site.
An article on Lohengrin at Wikipedia.
Another web site dealing with René Girard’s ideas.
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