Title:
Salome's modernity : Oscar Wilde and the aesthetics of transgression
Author:
Dierkes-Thrun, Petra, 1968-
ISBN:
9780472117673
9780472027545
Publication Information:
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2011.
Physical Description:
x, 247 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
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