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Salome's modernity Oscar Wilde and the aesthetics of transgression

Title
Salome's modernity [electronic resource] : 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
1 online resource (x, 247 p.) : ill.
Uniform Title
Salome's modernity (Online)
Alternative Title
Salome's modernity (Online)
Subject
  • Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
  • Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 > Influence
  • Salome (Biblical figure) > In literature
  • Deviant behavior in literature
  • Modernism (Aesthetics)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-236) and index.
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  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2011000474
OCLC
ssj0000525482
Author
Dierkes-Thrun, Petra, 1968-
Title
Salome's modernity [electronic resource] : Oscar Wilde and the aesthetics of transgression / Petra Dierkes-Thrun.
Imprint
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2011.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-236) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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