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The central element of O. Wilde's novel, Dorian's portrait, has itself received little critical attention, although the concept of the body as the 'canvas of conduct' implicit in its magic is culturally problematic: it presupposes a profound moral framework and a, potentially discriminating, corporal symbolism. Moreover, the motif of the fading portrait characteristically binds eccentric personal development to a segregative notion of 'declin...