Modern Art of Influence and the Spectacle of Oscar Wilde

Zusatztext "[Salamensky's] insights, couched in stylish prose and backed up by deep scholarship, merit a place in Wilde studies. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." - CHOICE "Truly groundbreaking This is not only an extremely incisive example of historical/cultural scholarship - impacting performance studies, literary criticism, popular culture studies, and literary/cultural history - it also gives us the first extended work on Oscar Wilde through the lens of Jewish Studies. Salamensky opens many doors here - and proceeds to go through them with depth, insight, and synthesis." - Frederick S. Roden, associate professor of English, University of Connecticut Informationen zum Autor S. I. SALAMENSKY Associate Professor of Performance Studies at UCLA, USA. Klappentext Salamensky investigates Oscar Wilde, his contemporaries, and the public frenzy over his work and life as illustrating the crucial importance of performance in the construction of the 'modern' and our own, postmodern, lives. Zusammenfassung Salamensky investigates Oscar Wilde, his contemporaries, and the public frenzy over his work and life as illustrating the crucial importance of performance in the construction of the 'modern' and our own, postmodern, lives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Wilde Worlds: Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and the Queer Modernity of Performance   Wilde Women: Staging Home, Homeland, and the Social Actress   Wilde Words: Mod Money, Transylvanian Transmissions, and the Magicking of the Material Body   Wilde Ways: Salomé and the Performance of the Transgendered Jewess Hysteric   What Do We Want from Wilde?: Culture, Memory, and the Trials of Time

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• Authors: S Salamensky, S. Salamensky, S. I. Salamensky, SALAMENSKY S I
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2011
• EAN: 9780230117891
• ISBN: 978-0-230-11789-1
• No. of pages: 217
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Theater, B, Literature, Media Studies, Culture, Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture, Communication, Media and Communication, Literature: history & criticism, Literature, general, Social groups: religious groups & communities, Theatre and Performance Arts, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, Biography, Literature & Literary studies, Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Theatre and Performance Studies, Literature: history and criticism, culture;Oscar Wilde;transmission