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Perverse Midrash

Oscar Wilde, Andre Gide, and Censorship of Biblical Drama

  • Hardback
  • 176 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • 17.6 x 22.6 x 1.8 cm

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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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  • Title

    Perverse Midrash

  • Author

    Katherine Brown Downey

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

  • Published

    February 2005

  • Weight

    300g

  • Page Count

    176

  • Dimensions

    17.6 x 22.6 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780826416216

  • ISBN-10

    0826416217

  • Eden Code

    1196305