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Perverse Midrash [[electronic resource] ] : Oscar Wilde, André Gide, and censorship of biblical drama / / Katherine Brown Downey



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Autore: Downey Katherine Brown Visualizza persona
Titolo: Perverse Midrash [[electronic resource] ] : Oscar Wilde, André Gide, and censorship of biblical drama / / Katherine Brown Downey Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Continuum, c2004
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 p.)
Disciplina: 822/.8
Soggetto topico: Bible plays - History and criticism
Bible plays - Censorship
Religion and literature
Theater - Censorship
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-171) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue: ""Half Biblical, Half Pornographic""; Act I: Cultural Dialogues; Act II: Interpretive Monologues; Epilogue: ""Perverse Midrashim""; Works Cited; Index
Sommario/riassunto: Oscar 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
Titolo autorizzato: Perverse Midrash  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-281-29803-4
9786611298036
1-84714-199-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910451218603321
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