Salome S Modernity

Author : Petra Dierkes-Thrun
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472036042

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Salome's Modernity by Petra Dierkes-Thrun Pdf

Oscar Wilde's 1891 symbolist tragedy Salom 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. Petra Dierkes-Thrun positions Wilde as a founding figure of modernism and Salom as a key text in modern culture's preoccupation with erotic and aesthetic transgression, arguing that Wilde's Salom 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 Salom are seen to represent a bridge linking the philosophical and artistic projects of writers such as Mallarm , 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.

Author : Biddy Martin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501732515

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Woman and Modernity by Biddy Martin Pdf

Woman and Modernity provides what previous studies of Salomé have in large part neglected to offer—a sustained investigation of the literariness of Salomé's texts and of Salomé as a significant reader of modernity. Focusing on key encounters in Salomé's writings, such as her exchanges with Nietzsche, Ibsen, Rilke, Freud, and late nineteenth-century middle-class German feminists such as Dohm and Stucker, Martin approaches Salomé's life and work as a series of strategic negotiations concerning the place of women and the meaning of femininity.

Author : Rhonda K. Garelick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781400832774

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Electric Salome by Rhonda K. Garelick Pdf

Loie Fuller was the most famous American in Europe throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rising from a small-time vaudeville career in the States, she attained international celebrity as a dancer, inventor, impresario, and one of the first women filmmakers in the world. Fuller befriended royalty and inspired artists such as Mallarmé, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rodin, Sarah Bernhardt, and Isadora Duncan. Today, though, she is remembered mainly as an untutored "pioneer" of modern dance and stage technology, the "electricity fairy" who created a sensation onstage whirling under colored spotlights. But in Rhonda Garelick's Electric Salome, Fuller finally receives her due as a major artist whose work helped lay a foundation for all modernist performance to come. The book demonstrates that Fuller was not a mere entertainer or precursor, but an artist of great psychological, emotional, and sexual expressiveness whose work illuminates the centrality of dance to modernism. Electric Salome places Fuller in the context of classical and modern ballet, Art Nouveau, Orientalism, surrealism, the birth of cinema, American modern dance, and European drama. It offers detailed close readings of texts and performances, situated within broader historical, cultural, and theoretical frameworks. Accessibly written, the book also recounts the human story of how an obscure, uneducated woman from the dustbowl of the American Midwest moved to Paris, became a star, and lived openly for decades as a lesbian.

Author : Kate Hext,Alex Murray
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421429427

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Decadence in the Age of Modernism by Kate Hext,Alex Murray Pdf

Contributors: Howard J. Booth, Joseph Bristow, Ellen Crowell, Nick Freeman, Ellis Hanson, Kate Hext, Kirsten MacLeod, Kristin Mahoney, Douglas Mao, Michèle Mendelssohn, Alex Murray, Sarah Parker, Vincent Sherry

Author : Rhonda K. Garelick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780691141091

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Electric Salome by Rhonda K. Garelick Pdf

Loie Fuller was the most famous American in Europe throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rising from a small-time vaudeville career in the States, she attained international celebrity as a dancer, inventor, impresario, and one of the first women filmmakers in the world. Fuller befriended royalty and inspired artists such as Mallarmé, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rodin, Sarah Bernhardt, and Isadora Duncan. Today, though, she is remembered mainly as an untutored "pioneer" of modern dance and stage technology, the "electricity fairy" who created a sensation onstage whirling under colored spotlights. But in Rhonda Garelick's Electric Salome, Fuller finally receives her due as a major artist whose work helped lay a foundation for all modernist performance to come. The book demonstrates that Fuller was not a mere entertainer or precursor, but an artist of great psychological, emotional, and sexual expressiveness whose work illuminates the centrality of dance to modernism. Electric Salome places Fuller in the context of classical and modern ballet, Art Nouveau, Orientalism, surrealism, the birth of cinema, American modern dance, and European drama. It offers detailed close readings of texts and performances, situated within broader historical, cultural, and theoretical frameworks. Accessibly written, the book also recounts the human story of how an obscure, uneducated woman from the dustbowl of the American Midwest moved to Paris, became a star, and lived openly for decades as a lesbian.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781554811892

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Salome by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Salome is Oscar Wilde’s most experimental—and controversial—play. In its own time, the play, written in French, was described by a reviewer as “an arrangement in blood and ferocity, morbid, bizarre, repulsive.” None, however, could deny the importance of Wilde’s creation. Contemporary audiences and reviewers variously regarded Salome as the symbol of a thrilling modernity, a challenge to patriarchy, a confession of desire, a sign of moral decay, a new form of art, and a revolt against the restraints of Victorian society. Less well known than Wilde’s beloved comedies, Salome is as enduringly modern and relevant. This edition uses the English translation done by Wilde’s lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, and overseen and corrected by Wilde himself. Appendices detail the play’s sources and provide extensive materials on its contemporary reception and dramatic productions.

Author : Megan Girdwood
Publisher : Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism, Drama and Performan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-18
Category : Christian art and symbolism in literature
ISBN : 1474481639

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Modernism and the Choreographic Imagination by Megan Girdwood Pdf

An account of Salome's dance and its centrality within modernist performance This book explores Salome's quintessential veiled dance through readings of fictional and poetic texts, dramatic productions, dance performances and silent films, arguing for the central place of this dancer - and her many interpreters - to the wider formal and aesthetic contours of modernism. Loïe Fuller, Maud Allan, Oscar Wilde, Ida Rubinstein, Alla Nazimova, Djuna Barnes, Germaine Dulac, Edward Gordon Craig, W. B. Yeats, Ninette de Valois and Samuel Beckett are foregrounded for their innovative engagements with this paradigmatic fin-de-siècle myth, showing how the ephemeral stuff of dance became a constitutive element of the modernist imagination during this period. Megan Girdwood is an Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh.

Author : EDITH. NESBIT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033703761

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SALOME AND THE HEAD by EDITH. NESBIT Pdf

Author : Lawrence Kramer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520241738

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Opera and Modern Culture by Lawrence Kramer Pdf

An essay on opera and modernity, using the seminal figures of Wagner and Strauss as case studies.

Author : Jodie Medd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139560924

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Lesbian Scandal and the Culture of Modernism by Jodie Medd Pdf

Before lesbianism became a specific identity category in the West, its mere suggestion functioned as a powerful source of scandal in early twentieth-century British and Anglo-American culture. Reconsidering notions of the 'invisible' or 'apparitional' lesbian, Jodie Medd argues that lesbianism's representational instability, and the scandals it generated, rendered it an influential force within modern politics, law, art and the literature of modernist writers like James Joyce, Ezra Pound and Virginia Woolf. Medd's analysis draws on legal proceedings and parliamentary debates as well as crises within modern literary production – patronage relations, literary obscenity and cultural authority – to reveal how lesbian suggestion forced modern political, cultural and literary institutions to negotiate their own identities, ideals and limits. Medd's text will be of great interest to scholars and graduate students in gender and women's studies, modernist literary studies and English literature.

Author : Walter Frisch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520243019

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German Modernism by Walter Frisch Pdf

In this volume the author explores the relationships between music and early modernism in the Austro-German sphere.

Author : Andreas Huyssen,David Bathrick
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Education
ISBN : 0231066457

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Modernity and the Text by Andreas Huyssen,David Bathrick Pdf

The study of Austrian and German modernist literature has a long and venerable history in this country. There have been no attempts yet, however, to reassess German and Austrian literary modernism in light of current discussion of modernity and postmodernity. Addressing a set of historical and theoretical questions central to current reevaluations of modernism, this volume presents American readers with a state-of-the-art account of German modernism studies in the eighties. Essays by Jochen Schulte-Sasse, Russell A. Berman, Peter Uwe Hohendahl, Judith Ryan, Mark Anderson, Klaus R. Scherpe, Biddy Martin, Klaus L. Berghahn and Acbar Abbas, center around German and Austrian literary and philosophical prose of the early twentieth century. texts by well-known authors -Kafka, Rilke, Musil, Doblin, Benjamin, Benn, and Junger - and less well-known ones -Franz Jung, Carl Einstein, Ernst Bloch, Lou Andreas-Salome, are examined. Particular attention is paid to the processes and strategies by which certain experiences of "modern life" are translated into modern aesthetic forms. The unique contribution of this volume is that it combines theory with an attempt to reintroduce an historical and contextual dimension. The authors believe that their revisions of Ausrian and German modernism will themselves be informed by a new set of questions pertinent to the modernist debate.

Author : Elisabeth M. Donato
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820455784

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Beyond the Paradox of the Nostalgic Modernist by Elisabeth M. Donato Pdf

This investigation of J.-K. Huysmans' representation of temporality sheds light on the complex and paradoxical nature of this late-nineteenth-century novelist and art critic, who was a modernist steeped in nostalgia as well as a nostalgic steeped in modernity. To unveil and understand the mechanisms and logic of this paradox, Elisabeth M. Donato examines Huysmans' characters' dealings with measured time and schedules, investigates the failure of des Esseintes' aesthetic experiment, and relates the novelist's construct of «spiritualist naturalism» to his increasingly frequent and intense longings for his own medieval utopia. Donato's new perspective onto the intricate relationship between modernity and nostalgia underscores Huysmans' firm and very modern stance à rebours of commonality in his never ending search for a solution to his dilemma.

Author : Dr Petra Rau
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409475415

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English Modernism, National Identity and the Germans, 1890–1950 by Dr Petra Rau Pdf

This is the first systematic study to trace the way representations of 'Germanness' in modernist British literature from 1890 to 1950 contributed to the development of English identity. Petra Rau examines the shift in attitudes towards Germany and Germans, from suspicious competitiveness in the late Victorian period to the aggressive hostility of the First World War and the curious inconsistencies of the 1930s and 1940s. These shifts were no simple response to political change but the result of an anxious negotiation of modernity in which specific aspects of Englishness were projected onto representations of Germans and Germany in English literature and culture. While this incisive argument clarifies and deepens our understanding of cultural and national politics in the first half of the twentieth century, it also complicates current debates surrounding race and 'otherness' in cultural studies. Authors discussed include major figures such as Conrad, Woolf, Lawrence, Ford, Forster and Bowen, as well as popular or less familiar writers such as Saki, Graham Greene, and Stevie Smith. Accessibly written and convincingly argued, Rau's study will not only be an important book for scholars but will serve as a valuable guide to undergraduates working in modernism, literary history, and European cultural relations.

Author : Susan Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199565320

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Literature, Modernism, and Dance by Susan Jones Pdf

Literature, Modernism, and Dance explores the complex reciprocal relationship between literature and dance in the modernist period