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Refiguring Oscar Wilde's Salome (2011) is a volume edited by Michael Y. Bennett.

Abstract

"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."--Publisher's description

Editions

Published in Amsterdam, Netherlands; and New York, NY: Rodopi, 2013.

Contents

• Introduction: Salome as anomaly? / Michael Y. Bennett
• Oscar Wilde as a French writer: considering Wilde's French in Salomé / Ian Andrew MacDonald
• The double life of Salomé: sexuality, nationalism and self-translation in Oscar Wilde / Elizabeth Richmond-Garza
• Wilde's Salome: the chastity, promiscuity and monstrosity of symbols / Andrew R. Russ
• The trouble with gender in Salome / Helen Davies
• The moon as symbol in Salome: Oscar Wilde's invocation of the Triple White Goddess / Joan Navarre
• Death and tragedy in Thomas Hardy's The return of the native and Oscar Wilde's Salome / Tom Ue
• Necrophilia and enchantment in Salome / Kirby Farrell
• Deviant desires and dance: the femme fatale status of Salome and the Dance of the seven veils / Tony W. Garland
• Staging Salome's dance in Wilde's play and Strauss's opera / Richard Allen Cave
• A Wilde performance: Bunburying and "bad faith" in Salome and The importance of being Earnest / Michael Y. Bennett
• Salome and the shudder of history: a reading in memory of Morse Peckham / Robert Combs
• The race to perform: Salome and the Wilde Harlem Renaissance / Margaux Poueymirou
• Unspeakable things: Headlong Theatre's Salome and an aesthetic for the new millennium / Peter Raby
• Intertextuality and intermediality in Oscar Wilde's Salome, or: how Oscar Wilde became a postmodernist / Kees de Vries
• Salome on Sunset Boulevard / Steven Price.

External links

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