“Passion, Salomé”: Decadent Transformations and Transgressions of Feminine Sensuality in Huysmans, Wilde, and Strauss

Representations of Salomé have been hued in the paradoxical characterisations of the beautifully seductive and evil femme fatale. While some artists closely aligned their depictions to this Pandorian stereotype in collusion with narrative traditions of the oppressive male gaze, others challenged it...

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Main Author: Mariama Diallo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2023-10-01
Series:Forum
Online Access:http://journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/article/view/9152