Refiguring Oscar Wilde's Salome / edited by Michael Y. Bennett.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bennett, Michael Y.

Series:

Guft va gu ; 14.

Dialogue ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Salomé.

Wilde, Oscar.

Salome (Biblical figure)--In literature.

Salome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While Oscar Wilde’s delightfully-witty comedies of manners receive the most fanfare from the general public and much of academia, Wilde’s most “serious” play— Salome —rightfully deserves an equal amount of attention. Written by emerging scholars, established scholars, and notable Wilde scholars at the top of the field, the far-ranging essays in this book—the first collection solely on Wilde’s Salome —provide new readings of the play, allowing us to better assess how and why Salome either fits or does not fit into Wilde’s oeuvre. Framed in a new light in this collection, this fuller understanding of Salome should potentially change the way we read both Salome and Wilde’s entire oeuvre.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

OSCAR WILDE AS A FRENCH WRITER: CONSIDERING WILDE’S FRENCH IN SALOMÉ / Ian Andrew MacDonald

THE DOUBLE LIFE OF SALOMÉ: SEXUALITY, NATIONALISM AND SELF-TRANSLATION IN OSCAR WILDE / Elizabeth Richmond-Garza

WILDE’S SALOME: THE CHASTITY, PROMISCUITY AND MONSTROSITY OF SYMBOLS / Andrew R. Russ

THE TROUBLE WITH GENDER IN SALOME / Helen Davies

THE MOON AS SYMBOL IN SALOME: OSCAR WILDE’S INVOCATION OF THE TRIPLE WHITE GODDESS / Joan Navarre

DEATH AND TRAGEDY IN THOMAS HARDY’S THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE AND OSCAR WILDE’S SALOME / Tom Ue

NECROPHILIA AND ENCHANTMENT IN SALOME / Kirby Farrell

DEVIANT DESIRES AND DANCE: THE FEMME FATALE STATUS OF SALOME AND THE DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS / Tony W. Garland

STAGING SALOME’S DANCE IN WILDE’S PLAY AND STRAUSS’S OPERA / Richard Allen Cave

A WILDE PERFORMANCE: BUNBURYING AND “BAD FAITH” IN SALOME AND THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST / Michael Y. Bennett

SALOME AND THE SHUDDER OF HISTORY: A READING IN MEMORY OF MORSE PECKHAM / Robert Combs

THE RACE TO PERFORM: SALOME AND THE WILDE HARLEM RENAISSANCE / Margaux Poueymirou

UNSPEAKABLE THINGS: HEADLONG THEATRE’S SALOME AND AN AESTHETIC FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM / Peter Raby

INTERTEXTUALITY AND INTERMEDIALITY IN OSCAR WILDE’S SALOME OR: HOW OSCAR WILDE BECAME A POSTMODERNIST / Kees de Vries

SALOME ON SUNSET BOULEVARD / Steven Price

ESSAY ABSTRACTS

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

INDEX.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-36638-X

9786613366382

94-012-0720-8

OCLC:

768083055

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401207201 DOI