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Dorian Gray

Chapter 11

• Rosner
  • Says it’s a catalog of the picture itself, of what he can’t show us (the portrait itself), but in a sanitized form (Rosner 28), a displaced anatomy of the portrait
  • Not a digression therefore, but an “exoneration” of Dorian because he is a work of art, not a person with morals
  • But I’d say that his death implies a negative judgment of him
  • When an artwork comes to life, she says, the effect IS moral, despite Wilde’s preface: it shows “moral, ethical, sordid, and unavoidably consequential” (30)