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200 10$aPerverse Midrash $eOscar Wilde, Andre Gide, and censorship of biblical drama /$fKatherine Brown Downey
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aNew York $cContinuum$dc2004
215   $a1 online resource (193 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 161-171) and index.
327   $aContents; Acknowledgments; Prologue: ""Half Biblical, Half Pornographic""; Act I: Cultural Dialogues; Act II: Interpretive Monologues; Epilogue: ""Perverse Midrashim""; Works Cited; Index
330   $aOscar Wilde's Salome and Andre Gide's Saul have been considered critically in the traditional contexts of authorial oeuvre, biography, or "thought." These plays have been treated with embarrassed respect, dealt with only because of the importance of their authors. That Wilde and Gide made use of biblical material seems to discomfit their critics; that they had done so at a time when biblical drama was prohibited has rarely been addressed. Traditional critical treatments seek to smooth over the plays' aberrant qualities. This study takes them seriously as aberrations and investigates Wilde's an
606   $aBible plays$xHistory and criticism
606   $aBible plays$xCensorship
606   $aReligion and literature
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