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Salome's modernity

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, c2011. - 1 online resource (x, 247 p. :) ill. ; - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-236) 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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Salome (Biblical figure) --In literature.
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 --Influence.
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Salome.


Modernism (Aesthetics)
Deviant behavior in literature.


Electronic books.

PR5820.S23 / D54 2011

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