Dethroning the authoritative discourse : heteroglossia in Wilde's and Shaw's novelized plays.

• Main Author: Lawrence, Tina.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/50786
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis demonstrates heteroglossia in Oscar Wilde’s and George Bernard Shaw’s plays which enables the repudiation of social, moral and linguistic conventions. The dialogic interplay in A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895), Mrs. Warren’s Profession (1893), and Pygmalion (1912)...