How Long to Read Performing Salome, Revealing Stories

How Long Does it Take to Read Performing Salome, Revealing Stories?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 15 minutes to read Performing Salome, Revealing Stories by Clair Rowden

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

With its first public live performance in Paris on 11 February 1896, Oscar Wilde's Salomé took on female embodied form that signalled the start of 'her' phenomenal journey through the history of the arts in the twentieth century. This volume explores Salome's appropriation and reincarnation across the arts - not just Wilde's heroine, nor Richard Strauss's - but Salome as a cultural icon in fin-de-siècle society, whose appeal for ever new interpretations of the biblical story still endures today. Using Salome as a common starting point, each chapter suggests new ways in which performing bodies reveal alternative stories, narratives and perspectives and offer a range and breadth of source material and theoretical approaches. The first chapter draws on the field of comparative literature to investigate the inter-artistic interpretations of Salome in a period that straddles the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the Modernist era. This chapter sets the tone for the rest of the volume, which develops specific case studies dealing with censorship, reception, authorial reputation, appropriation, embodiment and performance. As well as the Viennese premiere of Wilde's play, embodied performances of Salome from the period before the First World War are considered, offering insight into the role and agency of performers in the production and complex negotiation of meaning inherent in the role of Salome. By examining important productions of Strauss's Salome since 1945, and more recent film interpretations of Wilde's play, the last chapters explore performance as a cultural practice that reinscribes and continuously reinvents the ideas, icons, symbols and gestures that shape both the performance itself, its reception and its cultural meaning.

How long is Performing Salome, Revealing Stories?

Performing Salome, Revealing Stories by Clair Rowden is 248 pages long, and a total of 63,984 words.

This makes it 84% the length of the average book. It also has 78% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Performing Salome, Revealing Stories Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 49 minutes to read Performing Salome, Revealing Stories aloud.

What Reading Level is Performing Salome, Revealing Stories?

Performing Salome, Revealing Stories is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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