Salome's modernity Oscar Wilde and the aesthetics of transgression /

Dierkes-Thrun, Petra, 1968-

Salome's modernity Oscar Wilde and the aesthetics of transgression / [electronic resource] : Petra Dierkes-Thrun. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2011. - 247 p. : ill.

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.

9780472027545 (electronic bk.)




Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Salome.
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 --Influence.
Salome (Biblical figure) --In literature.


Deviant behavior in literature.
Modernism (Aesthetics)


Electronic books.

PR5820.S23 / D54 2011

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