Salome's modernity
Subtitle: Oscar Wilde and the aesthetics of transgression
By: Petra Dierkes-Thrun
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780472117673; 9780472027545
Subjects: In literature; Influence; Deviant behavior in literature; Modernism (Aesthetics)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-236) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Dancing on the threshold: Wilde's Salome between symbolist, decadent, and modernist aesthetics; title: "The brutal music and the delicate text"? Richard Strauss's operatic modernism in Salome; title: Perverts in court: Maud Allan's the vision of Salome and the Pemberton-Billing trial; title: Alla Nazimova's Salome: an historical phantasy by Oscar Wilde; title: Portraits of the artist as a gay man and Salome as a feminist icon: Wilde and Salome in popular culture since the 1980s.