CONTENTS:

Abbreviations

1. Introduction

1.1. The thesis

1.2. Methodology

1.3. The choice of material and the organization of the paper

1.4. A note on vocabulary

1.4.1. Intertextuality
1.4.2. Postmodernism

2. The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983)

2.1. Biography, autobiography, criticism or a novel?

2.2. Ventriloquism - a stylistic tour de force

3. Chatterton (1987)

3.1. Intertextuality - plagiarism or true poetry?

3.2. Parody and the deconstruction of history

3.3. Reconstruction of the literary canon

4. Dan Leno & the Limehouse Golem (1994)

4.1. Literature of the second degree

4.2. Mocking literary realism

4.3. Intertextual 'self'

5. Conclusion

Bibliography

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