Wilde y el enigma de la esfinge

Mostramos cómo "El crítico como artista" de Oscar Wilde anticipa algunos conceptos clave de la hermenéutica postestructuralista—por ejemplo, la dialéctica necesaria entre ceguera y percepción crítica (Lacan, Paul de Man) o el efecto retroactivo que tiene la interpretación sobre la construcción de la obra. Más específicamente, la lectura del enigma de la Esfinge que propone Wilde en esta obra a la vez teoriza y dramatiza la relación paradójica que se da entre ceguera y percepción, al formular una profecía irónica que puede leerse como el anuncio por parte de Wilde de su propia caída trágica—en la que hay un elemento de actuación interpretativa de un guión previo, elemento que ha sido comentado previamente por diversos críticos. Es decir, la Esfinge de Wilde se usa como vehículo para un enigma sobre el propio Wilde, y es un emblema de la ambivalencia de su propia actitud ante la cuestión de la revelación pública de su homosexualidad.


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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.

 

 
Links to the paper in the following websites, journals and repositories:

Wilde and the Riddle of the Sphinx

Date posted: January 14, 2008  

http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1082721

SSRN eJournal Classifications

LIT Subject Matter eJournals      English & Commonwealth Literature eJournal - CMBO          LIT: Victorian Literature (Topic) - CMBO

LIT Subject Matter eJournals      Literary Theory & Criticism eJournal - CMBO

PRN Subject Matter eJournals      Continental Philosophy eJournal - CMBO          PRN: Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, Deconstruction (Topic) - CMBO

WGS Subject Matter eJournals      Sexuality & Gender Studies eJournal - Forthcoming - CMBO

 

 

 

También aquí: 

 

_____. "Wilde y el enigma de la Esfinge." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 20 March 2007.

         http://garciala.blogia.com/2007/032002-wilde-y-el-enigma-de-la-esfinge.php

         2007

_____. "Wilde and the Riddle of the Sphinx / Wilde y el enigma de la Esfinge." Online PDF at Social Science Research Network 14 Jan. 2008.*

http://ssrn.com/abstract=1082721

2008

Literary Theory and Criticism eJournal 14 Jan. 2008.*

         http://www.ssrn.com/link/English-Lit-Theory-Criticism.html

         2015

English and Commonwealth Literature eJournal 14 Jan. 2008.*

         http://www.ssrn.com/link/English-Commonwealth-Lit.html

2015

Continental Philosophy eJournal 14 Jan. 2008.*

         http://www.ssrn.com/link/Continental-Philosophy.html

2015

         Sexuality & Gender Studies eJournal 14 Jan. 2008.*

         http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/JELJOUR_Results.cfm?form_name=journalBrowse&journal_id=950868

         2015

_____. "Wilde y el enigma de la Esfinge." Online PDF at Zaguán 23 April 2009.*

         http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/3245

         2009

_____. "Wilde y el enigma de la Esfinge." ResearchGate 15 April 2012.*

         http://www.researchgate.net/publication/33419879

         2012

_____. "Wilde y el enigma de la Esfinge (Wilde and the Riddle of the Sphinx). PhilPapers 28 Jan. 2009.*

         http://philpapers.org/rec/LANWAT-2

         2013

_____. "Wilde y el enigma de la Esfinge." Academia 26 Dec. 2015.*

         https://www.academia.edu/19838519/

         2015

_____. "Wilde y el enigma de la esfinge." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 26 Dec. 2015.*

         http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2015/12/wilde-y-el-enigma-de-la-esfinge.html

         2015

_____. "Wilde y el enigma de la Esfinge." Net Sight de José Angel García Landa 4 Jan. 2023.*

https://personal.unizar.es/garciala/publicaciones/WildeEnigma.pdf

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