Salome's modernity [electronic resource] : Oscar Wilde and the aesthetics of transgression / Petra Dierkes-Thrun.
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- 9780472027545
- 0472027549
- 822/.8 22
- PR5820.S23 D54 2011
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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