Split selves, multiple personalities the birth, development and metamorphosis of the figure of the decadent artist in Walter Pater's Studies in the history of the Renaissance, Oscar Wilde's the Picture of Dorian Gray, Kate Chopin's the Awakening, Thomas M

Abstract

The current thesis studies one of the archetypal heroes that the Decadent movement produced. This is the figure of the Decadent artist. Specifically, it traces the birth, development and metamorphosis of this hero in some works of fiction from the ninetee