{"product_id":"salomes-modernity-petra-dierkes-thrun-9780472036042","title":"Salome's Modernity: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression","description":"\u003cp\u003eOscar Wilde's 1891 symbolist tragedy \u003ci\u003eSalomé\u003c\/i\u003e has had a rich afterlife in literature, opera, dance, film, and popular culture.\u003ci\u003e Salome's Modernity: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eSalomé\u003c\/i\u003e as a key text in modern culture's preoccupation with erotic and aesthetic transgression, arguing that Wilde's \u003ci\u003eSalomé\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eSalomé\u003c\/i\u003e 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. Dierkes-Thrun addresses subsequent representations of Salome in a wide range of artistic productions of both high and popular culture through the works of Richard Strauss, Maud Allan, Alla Nazimova, Ken Russell, Suri Krishnamma, Robert Altman, Tom Robbins, and Nick Cave, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Petra Dierkes-Thrun\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472036041\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472036042\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/28\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Petra Dierkes-Thrun","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086699245823,"sku":"9780472036042","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f7ed912e-8763-4cd5-b9b9-b1eabd183c6a.jpg?v=1769096063","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/salomes-modernity-petra-dierkes-thrun-9780472036042","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}