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

Title
Salome's modernity : Oscar Wilde and the aesthetics of transgression / Petra Dierkes-Thrun.
Author
Dierkes-Thrun, Petra, 1968-
Publication
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2011.

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Description
x, 247 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Dancing on the threshold: Wilde's Salomé 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 Salomé and the Pemberton-Billing trial -- Alla Nazimova's Salomé: an historical phantasy by Oscar Wilde -- Portraits of the artist as a gay man and Salomé as a feminist icon: Wilde and Salomé in popular culture since the 1980s.
Call Number
JFE 12-1202
ISBN
  • 9780472117673 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 047211767X (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780472027545 (ebk.)
  • 0472027549 (ebk.)
LCCN
2011000474
OCLC
YBP 2011000474
Author
Dierkes-Thrun, Petra, 1968-
Title
Salome's modernity : Oscar Wilde and the aesthetics of transgression / Petra Dierkes-Thrun.
Imprint
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2011.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 12-1202
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