| Description |
1 online resource (295 pages) |
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Dialogue, 14 ; v. 14 |
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Dialogue, 14
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction: Salome as Anomaly?; Oscar Wilde as a French Writer: Considering Wilde's French in Salomé; The Double Life of Salomé: Sexuality, Nationalism and Self-Translation in Oscar Wilde; Wilde's Salome: The Chastity, Promiscuity and Monstrosityof Symbols; The Trouble with Gender in Salome; The Moon as Symbol in Salome: Oscar Wilde's Invocationof the Triple White Goddess; Death and Tragedy in Thomas Hardy's The Return of theNative and Oscar Wilde's Salome; Necrophilia and Enchantment in Salome |
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Deviant Desires and Dance: the Femme Fatale Status ofSalome and the Dance of the Seven VeilsStaging Salome's Dance in Wilde's Play and Strauss's Opera; A Wilde Performance: Bunburying and "Bad Faith" inSalome and The Importance of Being Earnest; Salome and the Shudder of History: A Reading in Memoryof Morse Peckham; The Race to Perform: Salome and the Wilde HarlemRenaissance; Unspeakable Things: Headlong Theatre's Salome and anAesthetic for the New Millennium; Intertextuality and Intermediality in Oscar Wilde'sSalome or: How Oscar Wilde became a Postmodernist; Salome on Sunset Boulevard |
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Essay AbstractsAbout the Authors; Index |
| Summary |
While Oscar Wilde's delightfully-witty comedies of manners receive the most fanfare from the general public and much of academia, Wilde's most "serious" play-- Salome --rightfully deserves an equal amount of attention. Written by emerging scholars, established scholars, and notable Wilde scholars at the top of the field, the far-ranging essays in this book--the first collection solely on Wilde's Salome --provide new readings of the play, allowing us to better assess how and why Salome either fits or does not fit into Wilde's oeuvre. Framed in a new light in this collection, this fuller understandi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Salomé.
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Salome (Biblical figure) -- In literature
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| SUBJECT |
Salome (Biblical figure) fast |
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Salomé (Wilde, Oscar) fast |
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DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789401207201 |
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9401207208 |
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