Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression
by
Petra Dierkes-Thrun
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Oscar Wilde's 1891 symbolist tragedy Salomé has had a rich afterlife in literature, opera, dance, film, and popular culture. Salome's Modernity: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression is the first comprehensive scholarly exploration of that extraordinary resonance that persists to the present....