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

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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:247 p. :; ill.
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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.