Performing Salome, revealing stories /:

This volume explores Salome's appropriation and reincarnation across the arts - not just Wilde's heroine, nor Richard Strauss's - but Salome as a cultural icon in fin-de-siècle society, whose appeal for ever new interpretations of the biblical story still endures today. Using Salome...

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Weitere Verfasser: Rowden, Clair (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2013]
Schriftenreihe:Ashgate interdisciplinary studies in opera.
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Zusammenfassung:This volume explores Salome's appropriation and reincarnation across the arts - not just Wilde's heroine, nor Richard Strauss's - but Salome as a cultural icon in fin-de-siècle society, whose appeal for ever new interpretations of the biblical story still endures today. Using Salome as a common starting point, each chapter suggests new ways in which performing bodies reveal alternative stories, narratives and perspectives, and offer a range and breadth of source material and theoretical approaches. Rowden develops case studies dealing with censorship, reception, authorial reputation, appropria.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (244 pages).
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781317082262
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9781409474227
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