International Journal of English Literature and Culture
 

International Journal of English Literature and Culture

Vol. 5(2), pp. 15-25, March, 2017

 ISSN: 2360-7831

DOI: 10.14662/IJELC2017.006

Review paper

This research explored the life of beauty a person can own and it is on the subject of the amount of human agency in one's life amidst all power relations. Oscar Wilde's politics of Irish aestheticism is the instigator of an aesthetic possibility of life in the historical booklet of one's lived experience. But The Picture of Dorian Gray does not remain simply beautiful and the protagonist's life has been ruined to nothingness; therefore, the aim of this research was to problematise the aesthetic life being sought for by the characters. This was done to show to what extent art suffices for life fulfillment. Besides, genealogical curiosity considers Wilde's aesthetics amidst all other power relations to discover how a person can push his/her individualistic demands forward.

Keywords: Foucauldian Archaeology, Foucauldian Genealogy, Foucauldian Discipline, Problematisation, Wildean Aesthetics, The Sublime, The Beautiful, Social Individualism.

Cite This Article As: Kharrazi H, Asadiamjad F (2017). Oscar Wilde and the Politics of Irish Aestheticism: A Genealogical Study into The Picture of Dorian Gray. Inter. J. Eng. Lit. Cult. 5(2): 15-25

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