Թեմա - Epigrams and their Translation in Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
Տեսակ - Կուրսային, անհատական և ստուգողական աշխատանքներ
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Առարկա - Անգլերեն լեզվով
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Chapter 1. Life and Writing Style of Oscar Wilde
Chapter 2. Epigrams in “Dorian Grey”
Conclusion
Our intention in this paper is to provide some explanation for the stylistic potential of lexical devices, especially epigrams in Oscar Wilde’s great creature “The Picture of Dorian Gray” as well as to analyze difficulties of their translation.
In this paper we will base ourselves upon the definitions given by different scholars, and as a conclusion we will give our own definition of lexical devices used by Oscar Wilde in his creativity.
The Picture of Dorian Gray is an 1891 philosophical novel by writer and playwright Oscar Wilde. First published as a complete story in the July 1890 issue of Lippincotts Monthly Magazine, the editors feared the story was indecent, and without Wildes knowledge, deleted five hundred words before publication. Wilde revised and expanded the magazine edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) for publication as a novel; the book edition (1891) featured an aphoristic preface — an apologia about the art of the novel and the reader. The content, style, and presentation of the preface made it famous in its own literary right, as social and cultural criticism.
Before to begin the topic research it is necessary to highlight and clarify the term “style” and its peculiarities. It is important to mention that the word “style” has a very broad meaning.
There are many versions of the notion of style according to the different purposes of stylistic analysis. «The style of any period is the result of a variety of complex and shifting pressures and influences. Books reflect our experience, but our experience is also shaped by the books». That is why there is the constant interaction between life and literature, life and literary style of any writer as we could see from our analysis in the previous part of our paper.
Puns initiates the beginning of a new era in the development of the English play.
We can conclude that epigrams play one of the most important roles in the novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde. With the help of these stylistic devices Wilde reflects his own viewpoints on different problems and ideas, his opinions about life, love, men and women, morals and sins. His judgements are the sharp and biting remarks. They are used in the plainest and the most direct sense. His epigrams are short and laconic, and are not very complex that makes them easy for remembering. So, we can conclude that epigrams create the individuality of Oscar Wilde’s style. Wilde is famous for his brilliant epigrams and the wittiest paradoxes.