Refiguring Oscar Wilde's Salome / / edited by Michael Y. Bennett.

• Superior document: Dialogue ; 14
• TeilnehmendeR: Bennett, Michael Y., 1980-
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2011.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Dialogue 14.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (295 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

While Oscar Wilde’s delightfully-witty comedies of manners receive the most fanfare from the general public and much of academia, Wilde’s most “serious” play— Salome —rightfully deserves an equal amount of attention. Written by emerging scholars, established scholars, and notable Wilde scholars at the top of the field, the far-ranging essays in this book—the first collection solely on Wilde’s Salome —provide new readings of the play, allowing us to better assess how and why Salome either fits or does not fit into Wilde’s oeuvre. Framed in a new light in this collection, this fuller understanding of Salome should potentially change the way we read both Salome and Wilde’s entire oeuvre.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- OSCAR WILDE AS A FRENCH WRITER: CONSIDERING WILDE’S FRENCH IN SALOMÉ / Ian Andrew MacDonald -- THE DOUBLE LIFE OF SALOMÉ: SEXUALITY, NATIONALISM AND SELF-TRANSLATION IN OSCAR WILDE / Elizabeth Richmond-Garza -- WILDE’S SALOME: THE CHASTITY, PROMISCUITY AND MONSTROSITY OF SYMBOLS / Andrew R. Russ -- THE TROUBLE WITH GENDER IN SALOME / Helen Davies -- THE MOON AS SYMBOL IN SALOME: OSCAR WILDE’S INVOCATION OF THE TRIPLE WHITE GODDESS / Joan Navarre -- DEATH AND TRAGEDY IN THOMAS HARDY’S THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE AND OSCAR WILDE’S SALOME / Tom Ue -- NECROPHILIA AND ENCHANTMENT IN SALOME / Kirby Farrell -- DEVIANT DESIRES AND DANCE: THE FEMME FATALE STATUS OF SALOME AND THE DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS / Tony W. Garland -- STAGING SALOME’S DANCE IN WILDE’S PLAY AND STRAUSS’S OPERA / Richard Allen Cave -- A WILDE PERFORMANCE: BUNBURYING AND “BAD FAITH” IN SALOME AND THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST / Michael Y. Bennett -- SALOME AND THE SHUDDER OF HISTORY: A READING IN MEMORY OF MORSE PECKHAM / Robert Combs -- THE RACE TO PERFORM: SALOME AND THE WILDE HARLEM RENAISSANCE / Margaux Poueymirou -- UNSPEAKABLE THINGS: HEADLONG THEATRE’S SALOME AND AN AESTHETIC FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM / Peter Raby -- INTERTEXTUALITY AND INTERMEDIALITY IN OSCAR WILDE’S SALOME OR: HOW OSCAR WILDE BECAME A POSTMODERNIST / Kees de Vries -- SALOME ON SUNSET BOULEVARD / Steven Price -- ESSAY ABSTRACTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- INDEX.