INTERTEXTUALITY AND INTERMEDIALITY IN OSCAR WILDE’S SALOME OR: HOW OSCAR WILDE BECAME A POSTMODERNIST

This paper approaches Wilde's play from three separate directions: intertextual, visual and musical. Comparing ideas and techniques in the play to the positions of postmodern thinkers, this chapter argues that Wilde sought to incorporate literary and philosophical elements more common to the late 20th century than to the standards of his own time.