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Salome's modernity : Oscar Wilde and the aesthetics of transgression / Petra Dierkes-Thrun.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dierkes-Thrun, Petra, 1968-
- 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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