This paper traces the presence of fin de si cle Wilde in the postmodernist fin de mill naire a century after his death. He is still alive, not only with scholars and critics but, more importantly, with a wider public and with writers and film makers who keep re-inventing him in their novels, plays and films, radicalizing him into a postmodernist avant la lettre. This wilder Wilde is studied here in recent biopics, bioplays and biofictions, such as Peter Ackroyd s The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde or Tom Stoppard s The Invention of Love, as well as in re-writings of his texts, such as in Joe Orton s What the Butler Saw or Mark Ravenhill s Handbag.
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Volume (Year): 9 (2001) Issue (Month): 03 (July) Pages: 355-367 Download reference. The following formats are available: HTML
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