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Refiguring Oscar Wildeâs Salome
Series: - Dialogue, Volume: 14
- Dialogue Online, Volume: 14
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While Oscar Wildeâs delightfully-witty comedies of manners receive the most fanfare from the general public and much of academia, Wildeâs most âseriousâ playâSalomeârightfully 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 bookâthe first collection solely on Wildeâs Salomeâprovide new readings of the play, allowing us to better assess how and why Salome either fits or does not fit into Wildeâs oeuvre. Framed in a new light in this collection, this fuller understanding of Salome should potentially change the way we read both Salome and Wildeâs entire oeuvre.
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 OâNeillâs One-Act Plays: New Critical Perspectives (2012).
"The essays are paired⦠thematically in âcommon scholarly conversations surrounding Salome and Wildeâs work, as a wholeâ, and this â fulfilling the aim of the âRodopi Dialogueâ series â enables an organized, but polyvocal reading of the book itself, and more importantly, re-engagement with the play. The fifteen essays, from established and emergent scholar, range over a cornucopia of subjects⦠Far from producing confusion, this scholarly eclecticism produces some fruitful and exciting juxtapositions⦠The range of essays in the volume serves both to locate the play in its original intellectual, aesthetic and theatrical context, and to suggest the complex possibilities of twentieth and twenty-first century readings and performances of the text without imposing an erroneously singular or homogeneous overview on this elusive play." â in: New Theatre Quarterly
"The collected essays give a comprehensive view of the play and its adaptations. They both competently restate essential interpretations and travel in exciting new directions. The combination of work by emerging and established scholars (the trademark of the Rodopi âDialogueâ series) is an added strength." â in: UPSTAGE: A journal of turn-of-the-century theatre 4/2012 (Summer)
"The collection is fascinating and inspiring, wide-ranging and gives impulses for further research. It is to be hoped that more in-depth studies like this are to follow on the work of an author who has always fascinated readers, theatregoers and scholars alike â fashion or no fashion." â Michael Heinze, in: Theater Forschung
"The collected essays give a comprehensive view of the play and its adaptations. They both competently restate essential interpretations and travel in exciting new directions. The combination of work by emerging and established scholars (the trademark of the Rodopi âDialogueâ series) is an added strength." â in: UPSTAGE: A journal of turn-of-the-century theatre 4/2012 (Summer)
"The collection is fascinating and inspiring, wide-ranging and gives impulses for further research. It is to be hoped that more in-depth studies like this are to follow on the work of an author who has always fascinated readers, theatregoers and scholars alike â fashion or no fashion." â Michael Heinze, in: Theater Forschung
Michael Y. Bennett: Introduction: Salome as Anomaly?
Ian Andrew MacDonald: Oscar Wilde as a French Writer: Considering Wildeâs French in Salomé
Elizabeth Richmond-Garza: The Double Life of Salomé: Sexuality, Nationalism and Self-Translation in Oscar Wilde
Andrew R. Russ: Wildeâs 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 Wildeâs Invocation of the Triple White Goddess
Tom Ue: Death and Tragedy in Thomas Hardyâs The Return of the Native and Oscar Wildeâs 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 Salomeâs Dance in Wildeâs Play and Straussâs Opera
Michael Y. Bennett: A Wilde Performance: Bunburying and âBad Faithâ 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 Theatreâs 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
Ian Andrew MacDonald: Oscar Wilde as a French Writer: Considering Wildeâs French in Salomé
Elizabeth Richmond-Garza: The Double Life of Salomé: Sexuality, Nationalism and Self-Translation in Oscar Wilde
Andrew R. Russ: Wildeâs 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 Wildeâs Invocation of the Triple White Goddess
Tom Ue: Death and Tragedy in Thomas Hardyâs The Return of the Native and Oscar Wildeâs 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 Salomeâs Dance in Wildeâs Play and Straussâs Opera
Michael Y. Bennett: A Wilde Performance: Bunburying and âBad Faithâ 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 Theatreâs 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