Performing Salome, revealing stories / edited by Clair Rowden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rowden, Clair.

Series:

Ashgate interdisciplinary studies in opera.

Ashgate interdisciplinary studies in opera

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949. Salome.

Strauss, Richard.

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Salomé.

Wilde, Oscar.

Salome (Biblical figure)--Drama--History and criticism.

Salome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 217 pages ) illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With its first public live performance in Paris on 11th Feb. 1896, Oscar Wilde's 'Salome' took on female embodied form which signalled the start of 'her' phenomenal journey through the history of the arts in the 20th century. This volume explores 'Salome's' appropriation and reincarnation across the arts. With its first public live performance in Paris on 11 February 1896, Oscar Wilde's Salom took on female embodied form that signalled the start of 'her' phenomenal journey through the history of the arts in the twentieth century. This volume explores Salome's appropriation and reincarnation across the arts - not just Wilde's heroine, nor Richard Strauss's - but Salome as a cultural icon in fin-de-sicle society, whose appeal for ever new interpretations of the biblical story still endures today. Using Salome as a common starting point, each chapter suggests new ways in which performing bodies reveal alternative stories, narratives and perspectives and offer a range and breadth of source material and theoretical approaches. The first chapter draws on the field of comparative literature to investigate the inter-artistic interpretations of Salome in a period that straddles the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the Modernist era. This chapter sets the tone for the rest of the volume, which develops specific case studies dealing with censorship, reception, authorial reputation, appropriation, embodiment and performance. As well as the Viennese premiere of Wilde's play, embodied performances of Salome from the period before the First World War are considered, offering insight into the role and agency of performers in the production and complex negotiation of meaning inherent in the role of Salome. By examining important productions of Strauss's Salome since 1945, and more recent film interpretations of Wilde's play, the last chapters explore performance as a cultural practice that reinscribes and continuously reinvents the ideas, icons, symbols and gestures that shape both the performance itself, its reception and its cultural meaning.

Contents:

Contents: Introduction: performing Salome, revealing stories, Clair Rowden; Decadent senses: the dissemination of Oscar WildeAEs Salom across the arts, Polina Dimova; Visions of Salome, visions of Wilde: critical readings of Oscar WildeAEs Salome in early 20th-century Vienna, Sandra Mayer; Whose/whoAEs Salome? Natalia Trouhanowa, a dancing diva, Clair Rowden; SalomeAEs slow dance with the Lord Chamberlain, London 1909-10, Anne Sivuoja-Kuappala; Seven veils, seven rooms, four walls and countless contexts, Hedda Hgsen-Hallesby; The dirt on Salome, Caryl Clark; Outrageous Salome: grace and fury in Carmelo BeneAEs Salom and Ken RussellAEs SalomeAEs Last Dance, Tristan Gr2nberg; Bibliography; Index.

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-60002-1

1-317-08227-3

1-317-08226-5

1-4094-4568-2

9781315600024

OCLC:

855504788