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TELENY
REVISITED |
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A Special Issue of THE OSCHOLARS |
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Edited by |
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John
McRae |
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University
of Nottingham |
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Autumn
2008 |
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‘There was
one work, Teleny, which passed from hand to hand and to which I added
small touches of my own. It was a
story of corrupt and dangerous passions, although much of it read like Gray's
Anatomy. Rabelaisian literature
has never been of particular interest to me – it is always deficient in form,
and stumbles under the weight of too much content – and Teleny provided
only the crudest materials for an artistic fiction. But I did not mock the book: I was pleased
to read deeply in all aspects of homoerotic literature, in the records of
dead love as much as in the celebration of living ones.’ |
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-
Peter Ackroyd: The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde |
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