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

By: Dierkes-Thrun, Petra, 1968-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2011Description: 247 p. : illISBN: 9780472027545 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Salome | Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Influence | Salome (Biblical figure) -- In literature | Deviant behavior in literature | Modernism (Aesthetics)Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 822/.8 LOC classification: PR5820.S23 | D54 2011Online resources: Click to View
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.
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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.

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