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Record Nr.

UNINA9910971282203321

Autore

Dierkes-Thrun Petra <1968->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2011

ISBN

9786613159854

9781283159852

1283159856

9780472027545

0472027549

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Disciplina

822/.8

Soggetti

Deviant behavior in literature

Modernism (Aesthetics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

A study of Oscar Wilde's Salomé in modernist and postmodernist literature and culture.