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SUMMARY:William Andrews Clark Lecture on Oscar Wilde: Wilde and the Law
DESCRIPTION:—lecture by Simon Stern (University of Toronto)\n\nThe legal 
 dimensions of Wilde’s writing and his life have often been explored thro
 ugh research on his trials\; however\, in his penchant for epigram and par
 adox\, we might find another way to consider the legal dispositions of his
  work. Wilde’s epigrams strive not so much to be true\, as to reveal a k
 ind of truth that the careful and measured cadences of argument\, expositi
 on\, and evidence cannot. Similarly\, the legal fiction (the fictio legis)
  produces a certain kind of truth\, within the legal domain\, that dispens
 es with these paradigmatically legal requirements. By placing various Wild
 ean aphorisms in dialogue with legal fictions\, we may find similar concer
 ns with the importance of style and the power of artifice.\n\nSimon Stern 
 is Associate Professor of Law and English at the University of Toronto.  
 His recent and forthcoming publications include articles on authorship and
  copyright law in 18th century England\, the narrative features of judicia
 l opinions\, and the ironized treatment of Victorian obscenity law in The 
 Picture of Dorian Gray. He is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Law and 
 Humanities (forthcoming in 2019) and\, with Robert Spoo\, he edits the boo
 k series Law and Literature for Oxford University Press.\n\nThis lecture i
 s made possible by a generous endowment established in 2005 by Dr. William
  Zachs\, scholar and antiquarian. The biennial series focuses on Wilde\, h
 is literary circle\, and the decadent movement of the 1890s. It highlights
  the Clark’s collection of Wilde material—the most comprehensive in t
 he world—which includes autograph letters and drafts by Wilde and his ci
 rcle\, a nearly complete collection of printed editions of his works\, pho
 tographs\, original portraits\, caricatures\, playbills\, and news cutting
 s.
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