| Description |
1 online resource (244 pages) |
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Ashgate interdisciplinary studies in opera |
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Ashgate interdisciplinary studies in opera.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Plates; Notes on Contributors; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Performing Salome, Revealing Stories; 1 Decadent Senses: The Dissemination of Oscar Wilde's Salomé across the Arts; 2 Visions of Salome, Visions of Wilde: Critical Readings of Oscar Wilde's Salome in Early Twentieth-Century Vienna; 3 Whose/Who's Salome? Natalia Trouhanowa, a Dancing Diva; 4 Salome's Slow Dance with the Lord Chamberlain, London 1909-10; 5 Seven Veils, Seven Rooms, Four Walls and Countless Contexts; 6 The Dirt on Salome |
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7 Outrageous Salome: Grace and Fury in Carmelo Bene's Salomè and Ken Russell's Salome's Last DanceBibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This volume explores Salome's appropriation and reincarnation across the arts - not just Wilde's heroine, nor Richard Strauss's - but Salome as a cultural icon in fin-de-siècle society, whose appeal for ever new interpretations of the biblical story still endures today. Using Salome as a common starting point, each chapter suggests new ways in which performing bodies reveal alternative stories, narratives and perspectives, and offer a range and breadth of source material and theoretical approaches. Rowden develops case studies dealing with censorship, reception, authorial reputation, appropria |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949. Salome.
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Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Salomé.
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Salome (Biblical figure) -- Drama -- History and criticism
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Salome (Biblical figure) |
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Salome (Strauss, Richard) fast |
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Salomé (Wilde, Oscar) fast |
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Drama
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| Author |
Rowden, Clair, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781317082262 |
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1317082265 |
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9781409445685 |
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1409445682 |
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9781409474227 |
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1409474224 |
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