Como uma coisa viva”: Interartes inquietantes em ‘The Harlot’s House’ (1885) de Oscar Wilde

Autores

  • Eszter György Maynooth University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/wcxddq36

Palavras-chave:

Oscar Wilde, Poesia, Intermidialidade, Marionete, Inquietante

Resumo

Este artigo tem como objetivo estudar The Harlot’s House (1885) de Oscar Wilde sob uma perspectiva intermidiática a fim de decifrar sua complexidade psicológica. Como epítome da poética intermidiática decadente de Wilde, o poema merece atenção especial. The Harlot’s House exemplifica as formas transfronteiriças pelas quais Wilde mobiliza convenções e teorias artísticas pré-existentes e contemporâneas para expressar suas visões frequentemente subversivas sobre vários aspectos do cosmopolitismo finissecular, como o vagabundear noturno, a prostituição urbana e a alienação metropolitana. Discuto as maneiras pelas quais o poema emprega metamúsica (Wolf 723), dança, teatralidade e estratégias pré-cinemáticas para transmitir sua complexidade psicossexual, capturando a fantasmagoria inquietante da modernidade urbana. Além disso, o estudo do cronotopo da noite no poema ajudará a estabelecer um vínculo entre a noção de incerteza intelectual de Ernst Jentsch (1906) (Jentsch 224), que acompanha a tematização intermidiática da marionete no poema, e o conceito de o inquietante (unheimliche) de Sigmund Freud (1919) (Freud 84). The Harlot’s House, por meio de seu caráter inquietante, mostra como a poética intermidiática do texto possibilita uma leitura “incerta” do poema de Wilde, na qual a voz poética se torna instável e multivalente.

Biografia do Autor

  • Eszter György, Maynooth University

    Eszter György is a PhD candidate at the English Department of Maynooth University and recipient of the John and Pat Hume Doctoral Scholarship. Her dissertation explores intermediality in Oscar Wilde’s poetry; that is, the significance of Wilde incorporating other art forms, such as painting, music and dance, into his literary style. 
    Eszter graduated from Sorbonne Université- Faculté des Lettres (Paris IV), where she got her undergraduate degree in Modern Literature and her MA degree in English Literature. She was twice awarded the Erasmus+ grant to English-speaking countries. She studied as an Erasmus at the University of Warwick and she also completed an Erasmus-year at the School of Celtic Studies of Maynooth University, where she got the Certificate in Irish Cultural Heritage. Eszter speaks Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, along with some Italian and Irish.

    Eszter has presented her research about Oscar Wilde at various conferences and symposia, including MLA 2024 in Philadelphia. She has published in the Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, Intentions and Freeside Europe Online Academic Journal.

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Publicado

30-12-2025

Edição

v. 27 n. 2 (2025): ABEI Journal 27.2 – Special Issue: Oscar Wilde: 125 Years On

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Artigos

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Copyright (c) 2025 Eszter György

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György, E. (2025). Como uma coisa viva”: Interartes inquietantes em ‘The Harlot’s House’ (1885) de Oscar Wilde. ABEI Journal, 27(2), 55-80. https://doi.org/10.11606/wcxddq36