Salome's modernity [electronic resource] : Oscar Wilde and the aesthetics of transgression /
by Dierkes-Thrun, Petra; ProQuest (Firm).
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BookPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2011Description: 247 p. : ill.ISBN: ; .Subject(s): Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Salom�e | Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Influence | Salome (Biblical figure) -- In literature | Deviant behavior in literature | Modernism (Aesthetics) | Electronic booksOnline resources: Click to View
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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