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

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Main Author: Dierkes-Thrun, Petra, 1968-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2011.
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Table of 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.