AN ECOCRITICAL ANALYSIS OF OSCAR WILDE’S FAIRY TALES: BETWEEN AESTHETICISM, CHRISTIANITY AND ECOCRITICISM
AN ECOCRITICAL ANALYSIS OF OSCAR WILDE’S FAIRY TALES: BETWEEN AESTHETICISM, CHRISTIANITY AND ECOCRITICISM

Summary/Abstract: This paper proposes an ecocritical analysis of Oscar Wilde’s two volumes of fairy tales. It finds out that the tales are addressed to adults, and are imbued with aestheticism, Christianity and ecocriticism. Such apparently different currents of thought and literature are happily brought together by Wilde. The paper analyses all his fairy tales published in two volumes from these three points of view, and finds points of intersection between the three approaches to Wilde’s fairy tales. The Christian ethics is not very different from the ecocritical ethics. Aestheticism is a trend that suits extremely well fairy tales, in their love for beautiful imagery. The ecocritical tropes discovered in these tales are “The Animal,” “Wilderness,” “The Apocalypse,” “Cornucopia”.

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