Salome’s Modernity: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression! This Tuesday!
Tuesday 7 pm at CSC
Come listen to a lively audio and video lecture on Oscar Wilde’s daring 1891 play about a rebellious Biblical princess, a dance, a beheading, and an exquisite, deadly kiss. Based on her recent book (University of Michigan Press, 2011), Stanford University scholar Petra Dierkes-Thrun discusses major milestones in the fascinating history of feminist, queer, and mainstream adaptations of Wilde’s play from the 1890s to the present, ranging from visual art work to Strauss’s opera, to stuck-up censors, female dancers, and innovative queer filmmakers and artists who have immortalized the perverse love story of Wilde’s Salome and John the Baptist.
Q&A and book signing to follow.
Petra Dierkes-Thrun is a Lecturer in the Comparative Literature Department at Stanford University, where she teaches and writes about gender and sexuality studies in the context of late 19th-century and modern European and transatlantic literature and culture.
Salome’s Modernity (the book) can be ordered at
Petra Dierkes-Thrun is a Lecturer in the Comparative Literature Department at Stanford University, where she teaches and writes about gender and sexuality studies in the context of late 19th-century and modern European and transatlantic literature and culture.
Salome’s Modernity (the book) can be ordered at
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