Refiguring Oscar Wilde’s <i>Salome</i>

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-420-3432-7
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Dialogue

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bennett, Michael Y.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Michael Y. Bennett: Introduction: Salome as Anomaly?
Ian Andrew MacDonald: Oscar Wilde as a French Writer: Considering Wilde’s French in Salomé
Elizabeth Richmond-Garza: The Double Life of Salomé: 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
Essay Abstracts
About the Authors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Y. Bennett is an Assistant Professor of English in Drama at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. He is the author of Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd: Camus, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, and Pinter (2011) and Words, Space, and the Audience: The Theatrical Tension Between Empiricism and Rationalism (2012). He is also the co-editor of Eugene O’Neill’s One-Act Plays: New Critical Perspectives (2012).