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Salome's modernity : Oscar Wilde and the aesthetics of transgression / Petra Dierkes-Thrun.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Dierkes-Thrun, Petra, 1968-
Contributor:
Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Salomé.
Wilde, Oscar.
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900--Influence.
Salome (Biblical figure)--In literature.
Salome.
Deviant behavior in literature.
Modernism (Aesthetics).
Physical Description:
1 online resource (260 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2011.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
A study of Oscar Wilde's Salomé in modernist and postmodernist literature and culture.
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.
Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on information from the publisher.
ISBN:
9786613159854
9781283159852
1283159856
9780472027545
0472027549
OCLC:
741691759

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