Refiguring Oscar Wilde's Salome
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Refiguring Oscar Wilde's Salome
(Dialogue / edited by Michael J. Meyer, 14)
Rodopi, 2011
- : pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 understanding of Salome should potentially change the way we read both Salome and Wilde's entire oeuvre.
Table of Contents
Michael Y. Bennett: Introduction: Salome as Anomaly?
Ian Andrew MacDonald: Oscar Wilde as a French Writer: Considering Wilde's French in Salome
Elizabeth Richmond-Garza: The Double Life of Salome: Sexuality, Nationalism and Self-Translation in Oscar Wilde
Andrew R. Russ: Wilde's Salome: The Chastity, Promiscuity and Monstrosity of Symbols
Helen Davies: The Trouble with Gender in Salome
Joan Navarre: The Moon as Symbol in Salome: Oscar Wilde's Invocation of the Triple White Goddess
Tom Ue: Death and Tragedy in Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native and Oscar Wilde's Salome
Kirby Farrell: Necrophilia and Enchantment in Salome
Tony W. Garland: Deviant Desires and Dance: the Femme Fatale Status of Salome and the Dance of the Seven Veils
Richard Allen Cave: Staging Salome's Dance in Wilde's Play and Strauss's Opera
Michael Y. Bennett: A Wilde Performance: Bunburying and "Bad Faith" in Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest
Robert Combs: Salome and the Shudder of History: A Reading in Memory of Morse Peckham
Margaux Poueymirou: The Race to Perform: Salome and the Wilde Harlem Renaissance
Peter Raby: Unspeakable Things: Headlong Theatre's Salome and an Aesthetic for the New Millennium
Kees de Vries: Intertextuality and Intermediality in Oscar Wilde's Salome or: How Oscar Wilde became a Postmodernist
Steven Price: Salome on Sunset Boulevard
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