Corporeal abjection and hopefulness in Oscar Wilde’s “Charmides” (1881).

Hueso-Vasallo, Manuel

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Corporeal abjection and hopefulness in Oscar Wilde’s “Charmides” (1881).

dc.contributor.author	Hueso-Vasallo, Manuel
dc.contributor.department	Universidad de Málaga. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras.	es
dc.date.accessioned	2025-07-16T10:45:48Z
dc.date.available	2025-07-16T10:45:48Z
dc.date.issued	2025
dc.description.abstract	This paper addresses the potential relationship between corporality, abjection, and hope in Oscar Wilde’s “Charmides” (1881). The main aim of inspecting this connection is to establish how Wilde makes use of abjection in order to defend the idea that sexual dissidence can, indeed, offer the possibility of hope. In other words, the paper focuses on how Wilde describes abject bodies and abject bodily acts in the poem in a way that ultimately defies the social and moral conventions of his period. It argues that acts that may be considered abject –such as same-sex desire– can be hopeful when addressed from a different perspective. This paper hopes to establish a clear connection between the poem, the abject, and Wilde’s defiance of the sexual mores of his period.	en
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dc.format.extent	17	es
dc.identifier.citation	Hueso-Vasallo, M. (2025). Corporeal Abjection and Hopefulness in Oscar Wilde’s “Charmides” (1881) . International Journal of English Studies, 25(1), 99–115. https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.607271
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.607271
dc.identifier.issn	1578-7044
dc.identifier.issn	1989-6131 (Internet)
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/157450
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones.	es
dc.relation	Sin financiación externa a la Universidad.	es
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Oscar Wilde	en
dc.subject	Abjection	en
dc.subject	Queer studies	en
dc.subject	Victorian poetry	en
dc.subject	Hope	en
dc.subject.other	CDU::8- Lingüística y literatura	es
dc.title	Corporeal abjection and hopefulness in Oscar Wilde’s “Charmides” (1881).	en
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
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