Abstract
In their paper, "Dorian Gray, Tom Ripley, and the Queer Closet," Jonathan Alexander and Deborah Meem present and portray an imaginary conversation among an impossible but intriguing group of writers, critics, and fictional characters. These individuals speak in their own (published) voices, which are moderated by the author-facilitators and shaped into an extended rumination on art, the Doppelgänger, queerness, and literary influence. Through their dialogue, the actors reveal a tradition of the queer novel, running in this case from Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray to Patricia Highsmith's five Tom Ripley books, whereby the closet functions simultaneously as refuge from a homophobic world and creative crucible for a queer aesthetics.
Recommended Citation
Alexander, Jonathan;
and Meem, Deborah.
"Dorian Gray, Tom Ripley, and the Queer Closet."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
5.4
(2003):
<https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.1200>
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