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• W2185654301 abstract "Introduction On the 24th April, 1895, Oscar Wilde was tried and sentenced for committing acts of gross indecency. His prosecutor, Edward Carson, used Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray as ‘evidence’ to prove this accusation, saying ‘when he was publishing that book he had in his mind a novel, which according to the extract that I have was plainly a novel which would lead to and teach sodomitical practices’ (Carson 1895: quoted from Holland 2003: 100). Wilde defended himself by saying ‘no work of art ever puts forward views of any kind... There are no views in a work of art’ (Wilde 1895: quoted from ibid.: 80), and that a sodomitical reading of his book would be a ‘misinterpretation’ (Wilde 1895: quoted from ibid.: 81). The homosexual ‘misinterpretation’ of The Picture of Dorian Gray has been much debated, and generally agreed to be a complex issue. Wilde certainly does not allow his potentially homosexual protagonist to live ‘happily ever after’. However, nowadays, the novel is celebrated as an expression of homosexuality in a very restricted era, whereas at its time of publication, it was much objected to for the same reasons (Gillespie 1995: 78+80). This cultural relevance is very significant, as it is clear that people will see The Picture of Dorian Gray differently depending on their historical and social culture, as well as their individual belief system, making it a book celebrating gay rights and equality, to a book preaching evil practices. I will attempt to ascertain whether it is possible, rather than analysing simply what people want to see in this novel, to prove what Wilde might have intended to portray, through his language. I shall be using Corpus Linguistics (‘a collection of sampled texts, written or spoken, in machine-readable form which may be annotated with various forms of linguistic information’ (McEnery, Xiao, Tono 2008: 4)) to aid this investigation, and help to decide whether Carson was correct in stating that The Picture of Dorian Gray contained inherently homosexual language, or whether Wilde is using language typical of 19th century novels, which Carson simply twisted, so desperate were some very influential people for any evidence to condemn Wilde. As Tognini Bonelli writes, corpus linguistics aims to analyse ‘language use, as realised in texts’ (2010: as quoted in O’Keeffe and McCarthy: 18-19) which will come into play as I investigate whether homosexual language is a feature of The Picture of Dorian Gray. I shall use a reference corpus (a collection of other 19th century texts) to provide a sample of language with no unique function, to help realise how the language of the verbal context of my text (The Picture of Dorian Gray) extends to its situational and cultural context (ibid.: 19). To facilitate my corpus analysis of The Picture of Dorian Gray, I shall make extensive use of the trial transcript, and analyse how the extracts which Carson subjectively chose, add weight to his biased argument whilst my corpus analysis will provide me with a balanced story. I shall consult many critics, including Gillespie who writes that Volume 3: 2010-2011 ISSN: 2041-6776" @default.
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• W2185654301 title "The Application of Key Words to Theories of Language and Sexuality in Identifying the Assertion of a Homoerotic Linguistic Set" @default.
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