Salome's modernity : Oscar Wilde and the aesthetics of transgression / Petra Dierkes-Thrun

Author: Dierkes-Thrun, Petra, 1968-
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2011]
Copyright Date: ©2011
Physical Description: x, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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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.

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9780472117673 (cloth : alk. paper)
047211767X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780472027545 (ebk.)
0472027549 (ebk.)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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