[ebooks] Bramwell: A Town of Millionaires (Images of America) by Louise Dawson Stoker; Dana Stoker Cochran in Arts-Photography

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Oscar Wildes 1891 symbolist tragedy Salomeacute; has had a rich afterlife in literature; opera; dance; film; and popular culture. Salomes 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 Salomeacute; as a key text in modern cultures preoccupation with erotic and aesthetic transgression; arguing that Wildes Salomeacute; 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 Salomeacute; are seen to represent a bridge linking the philosophical and artistic projects of writers such as Mallarmeacute;; 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.