Salome's Modernity : Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dierkes-Thrun, Petra, 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Salome > (Biblical figure) > In literature.
Wilde, Oscar, > 1854-1900 > Influence.
Wilde, Oscar, > 1854-1900. > Salome.
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Deviant behavior in literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Dancing on the threshold: Wilde's Salome between symbolist, decadent, and modernist aesthetics
  • "The brutal music and the delicate text"? Richard Strauss's operatic modernism in Salome
  • Perverts in court: Maud Allan's the vision of Salome and the Pemberton-Billing trial
  • Alla Nazimova's Salome: an historical phantasy by Oscar Wilde
  • Portraits of the artist as a gay man and Salome as a feminist icon: Wilde and Salome in popular culture since the 1980s.

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