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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2011. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (x, 247 p. :) illContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780472027545
  • 0472027549
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 822/.8 22
LOC classification:
  • PR5820.S23 D54 2011
Online resources:
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 (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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