Introduction
In a 29 January 1889 letter to Walter Hamilton, editor in the mid-1880s of Parodies of the Works of English and American Authors, Oscar Wilde declared that “parody, which is the Muse with her tongue in her cheek, has always amused me; but it requires a light touch, and a fanciful treatment and, odd...
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Polysèmes
2020
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| Sumari: | In a 29 January 1889 letter to Walter Hamilton, editor in the mid-1880s of Parodies of the Works of English and American Authors, Oscar Wilde declared that “parody, which is the Muse with her tongue in her cheek, has always amused me; but it requires a light touch, and a fanciful treatment and, oddly enough, a love of the poet whom it caricatures” (390). Despite Wilde’s use of the convention of describing a Muse as female, there were in fact very few women represented in Hamilton’s multi-vol... |
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