The Body Dangerous: Salome Dances
Richard Strauss’s operatic adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Salome breaks all the rules in the representation of the female body: this body is not only stared at by the ‘male gaze’ but stares back, with powerful and deadly results. This Salome offers a challenge to canonical theories of both ‘the gaz...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
2003-01-01
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| Series: | Revista Estudos Feministas |
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| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ref/article/view/9474 |