Дискурс историје и Вајлдова ревизија шекспиријанског наслеђа у причи Портрет господина В. Х.
The Discourse of History and Wilde’s Revision of the Shakespearean Legacy in the Story “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.”

Summary/Abstract: The paper follows the evolution of the concept of historicity from the positivist ambitions towards all-encompassing knowledge to the postmodern scepticism about the possibility of reliable cognizance. Wilde’s opposition to normative history and scientific approach to art is reflected in “The Portrait of Mr. W.H.”, a text which can be categorized as a story, literary discussion and philosophical treatise. In his reading of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Wilde plays with binary oppositions of forged and authentic art, fiction and faction, literary and historical, religious and scientific, and employs a trademark melodramatic plot to create a critical fantasy as a demonstration of interpretative liberty at the time when it was limited by the norms of the positivist literary science. The problems of the authority of authors and theorists, history, science, theology and gender politics permeate Wilde’s ambivalent expression, while the arbitrary nature of the text ready to erase what has been written opens up as an aesthetic principle and creative strategy in defying the repressive epistemological apparatus of the Victorian ideology.

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