Salome's modernity [electronic resource] : Oscar Wilde and the aesthetics of transgression / Petra Dierkes-Thrun.
Publication details: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2011.Description: 247 p. : illISBN:- 9780472117673
- 9780472027545 (e-book)
- 822/.8 22
- PR5820.S23 D54 2011eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.