Salomé as a Counter to the Hypocrisy of Attitudes Towards Alterity

Submitted by Nicole Bernard on

Salome was a really engaging book to read and analyze. I thoroughly enjoyed this week and presenting. Wilde's text for Salome made me reminisce about childhood as "The Nightingale and the Rose" was one of my favourite fairy tales and I was also exposed to various biblical tales (including the one that inspired Salome).

ENG 910: Week Seven Blog Post

Submitted by Joseph Pereira on

This week we looked at the 1907 edition of Oscar Wilde’s Salome which included 16 drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. I had never heard of this one act play before, so it was interesting to read through it and learn some of the context surrounding the play’s publication. Throughout the course (so far), I can better appreciate the importance of the image, text, and context connections because of all the important relations between the play, the drawings and Wilde’s story of creating the play.

Response Blog - Week Seven (October 29)

Submitted by Mark Dasilva on

I found Aubrey Beardsley's illustrations for Oscar Wilde's play, Salomé, to be incredibly unique. His thin, unchanging line art, as well as his dominating use of negative space creates a style that is unlike any other we have looked at so far in this course, and one that overshadows the text itself for myself. In addition, the relationship between Beardsley's art and Wilde also creates a interesting dynamic, as Wilde was vocally not a fan of the illustrations. This disagreement between author and artist greatly shapes the way we analyse the text.

Delhi, India

When Delhi is referenced in North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, it is referring to the shawls that Margaret's cousin Edith and her aunt Mrs. Shaw wear. These shawls were made in India and began to be circulated in trade by the East Inda Trading Company because men of the British army bought them for their wives and daughters. They are made from the hair of kashmir goats this promting the name 'cashmere'.These shawls became poplular because they had paisley designs on them.

Oct 29 Blog Post

Submitted by Alexandra Monstur on

Today was an interesting day for presentations in class, as we looked at Salome by Oscar Wilde. I had never before encountered the text until this course. What first struck me was how abstract the illustrations appeared, as opposed to the illustrations Sidney Paget created for "The Man With the Twisted Lip"; whereas those were life-like, Beardsley's illustrations seemed far more interpretive.

Blog #7 || Oct 29

Submitted by Kyle Sarjeant on

The sexual dynamics of Salome and its accompanying illustration was a main theme across all our discussions this week. More specifically, female sexuality as dominating was discussed in a few of the presentations. Visually, we see this dynamic in Beardsley’s illustration through the Salome being positioned higher than male characters in the same illustration. This was something I noticed as I was analyzing “The Eyes of Herod” for my Research Question assignment, but it was fascinating to notice that this is a common motif throughout the illustrations.

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