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Perverse Midrash - Oscar Wilde, Andre Gide,and Censorship of Biblical Drama (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R4,907
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Perverse Midrash - Oscar Wilde, Andre Gide,and Censorship of Biblical Drama (Hardcover, New): Katherine Brown Downey

Perverse Midrash - Oscar Wilde, Andre Gide,and Censorship of Biblical Drama (Hardcover, New)

Katherine Brown Downey

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Oscar Wilde's Salome and Andre Gide's Saul have been considered critically in the traditional contexts of authorial oeuvre, biography, or "thought." These plays have been treated with embarrassed respect, dealt with only because of the importance of their authors. That Wilde and Gide made use of biblical material seems to discomfit their critics; that they had done so at a time when biblical drama was prohibited has rarely been addressed. Traditional critical treatments seek to smooth over the plays' aberrant qualities. This study takes them seriously as aberrations and investigates Wilde's and Gide's claims that these plays are works of faith, by considering them as participating in the history of biblical drama.

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Imprint: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: February 2005
First published: November 2004
Authors: Katherine Brown Downey
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-8264-1621-6
Languages: English
Subtitles: English
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General
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LSN: 0-8264-1621-7
Barcode: 9780826416216

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