Salome's Modernity: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression Tapa dura - 2011

University Of Michigan Press, 2011. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:9780472117673

University of Michigan Press, 2011. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.

Hardback. New. <p>Oscar Wilde's 1891 symbolist tragedy Salomé has had a rich afterlife in literature, opera, dance, film, and popular culture. <i>Salome's Modernity: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression</i> is the first comprehensive scholarly exploration of that extraordinary resonance that persists to the present. Petra Dierkes-Thrun positions Wilde as a founding figure of modernism and Salomé as a key text in modern culture's preoccupation with erotic and aesthetic transgression, arguing that Wilde's Salomé marks a major turning point from a dominant traditional cultural, moral, and religious outlook to a utopian aesthetic of erotic and artistic transgression. Wilde and Salomé are seen to represent a bridge linking the philosophical and artistic projects of writers such as Mallarmé, Pater, and Nietzsche to modernist and postmodernist literature and philosophy and our contemporary culture.… Leer más

Univ of Michigan Pr, 2011. Hardcover. New. 280 pages. 9.02x5.98x1.10 inches.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.