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Refiguring Oscar Wilde's Salome.

While Oscar Wilde's delightfully-witty comedies of manners receive the most fanfare from the general public and much of academia, Wilde's most "serious" play-- Salome --rightfully deserves an equal amount of attention. Written by emerging scholars, established scholars, and notab...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bennett, Michael Y.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2011.
Colección:Dialogue, 14.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction: Salome as Anomaly?; Oscar Wilde as a French Writer: Considering Wilde's French in Salomé; The Double Life of Salomé: Sexuality, Nationalism and Self-Translation in Oscar Wilde; Wilde's Salome: The Chastity, Promiscuity and Monstrosityof Symbols; The Trouble with Gender in Salome; The Moon as Symbol in Salome: Oscar Wilde's Invocationof the Triple White Goddess; Death and Tragedy in Thomas Hardy's The Return of theNative and Oscar Wilde's Salome; Necrophilia and Enchantment in Salome.
  • Deviant Desires and Dance: the Femme Fatale Status ofSalome and the Dance of the Seven VeilsStaging Salome's Dance in Wilde's Play and Strauss's Opera; A Wilde Performance: Bunburying and "Bad Faith" inSalome and The Importance of Being Earnest; Salome and the Shudder of History: A Reading in Memoryof Morse Peckham; The Race to Perform: Salome and the Wilde HarlemRenaissance; Unspeakable Things: Headlong Theatre's Salome and anAesthetic for the New Millennium; Intertextuality and Intermediality in Oscar Wilde'sSalome or: How Oscar Wilde became a Postmodernist; Salome on Sunset Boulevard.
  • Essay AbstractsAbout the Authors; Index.