ARTISTIC ORIGINALITY OF O.WILDE’S COLLECTION OF ESSAYS
The article explores the features of fictional text in the works on literary criticism basing on the four essays included in the collection “Intentions” (1891) (“Critic as Artist”, “The Decay of Lying”, “Pen, Pencil and Poison”, “The Truth of Masks”). The authors focus on the aesthetic concept of Oscar Wilde. Both the form and the content of the works are studied.