{"id":158264,"date":"2021-11-06T12:39:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T16:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=158264"},"modified":"2021-11-08T09:48:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T14:48:12","slug":"foss-gives-wilde-presentation-in-charlotte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2021\/11\/06\/foss-gives-wilde-presentation-in-charlotte\/","title":{"rendered":"Foss Gives Wilde Presentation in Charlotte"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Professor

Professor of English Chris Foss, wearing an Oscar Wilde T-shirt.<\/p><\/div>\n

On October 22, Professor of English Chris Foss presented a paper entitled \u201cReflection and Refraction in Oscar Wilde\u2019s \u2018The Selfish Giant\u2019 and Clio Barnard\u2019s The Selfish Giant<\/em>\u201d at the annual conference of the Victorians Institute in Charlotte, NC.<\/p>\n

Foss first examined Wilde\u2019s literary endorsement of fantasy over realism as a valuable entry point for considering Victorian reflections on disability and freakery, in particular where the nexus of poverty and disability-aligned difference is concerned. Seeing the Giant\u2019s peculiar body as aligned with other nonnormative ones, especially freakish bodies, opens a new appreciation for how the story stands out relative to many other Victorian literary representations of disability.<\/p>\n

\"Victorians

Victorians Institute Program Cover<\/p><\/div>\n

Wilde\u2019s prison literature testifies to the extent to which Wilde\u2019s own enfreakment and enfoolment in jail provided profound personal experiences of physical and psychological illness\/disability that led him to refract but ultimately retain the tenor of his fairy tale. In the second half of the paper, Foss suggested how Barnard\u2019s 2013 film both builds upon and departs from its Victorian predecessor\u2019s approach. While employing a decidedly darker and unrelentingly realistic lens, Barnard\u2019s film reinforces Wilde\u2019s exposure of the ill treatment of and the damage done to disability-aligned bodies\/minds, as well as his emphasis upon love and responsiveness in the face of suffering and loss.<\/p>\n

Bringing together the reflection and refraction of Victorian ways of seeing disability-aligned difference through the pairing of these two texts compellingly supports the value of continuing the conversations around disability that Wilde\u2019s Victorian fairy tales prompted over 125 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On October 22, Professor of English Chris Foss presented a paper entitled \u201cReflection and Refraction in Oscar Wilde\u2019s \u2018The Selfish Giant\u2019 and Clio Barnard\u2019s The Selfish Giant\u201d at the annual conference of the Victorians Institute in Charlotte, NC. Foss first examined Wilde\u2019s literary endorsement of fantasy over realism as a valuable entry point for considering […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28559,"featured_media":158265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[234,25169],"class_list":{"0":"post-158264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-professional-notes","8":"tag-cfoss","9":"tag-department-of-english-and-linguistics","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}