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As a classicist, novelist, man of the theater, essayist and queer public personality, Oscar Wilde understood that life imitates art more than art imitates life. This article argues that both his life and work performed this mimetic principle
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Imitation is often dismissed as unoriginal, but what if originality is based on creative forms of imitation. Oscar Wilde, as a thoroughly original writer, makes us see how art provides models for life to imitate. Fashion, movies, socials, provide contemporary examples
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Writing about Wilde is not only an academic activity; it's a pleasure. He could resist everything--except temptation. I hope this is tempting enough...
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This page is a summary of: The Critic as Mime: Wilde's Theoretical Performance, symplokē, January 2018, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.5250/symploke.26.1-2.0307.
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