The Voice of Rapture : A Symbolist System of Ecstatic Speech in Oscar Wilde's Salome
by
Karl Toepfer
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0820414913
ISBN-13
9780820414911
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 1st, 1991
Print length
182 Pages
Weight
406 grams
Dimensions
16.10 x 23.70 x 1.40 cms
Product Classification:
Acting techniquesLanguage: reference & generalLiterary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
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With Wilde''s Salome (1893) as an exemplary text, this book examines the conditions under which speech «constructs» ecstatic experience. The author considers Wilde''s text as a complex Symbolist «system» of relations between rhetorical devices and attitudes toward language. By identifying the components of the system, the book provides a theoretical model for understanding the power of language to «construct» specific emotional states. The dramatic nature of Wilde''s play further indicates that, contrary to popular perception, ecstasy is not «beyond» language but in it. Rapture possesses a «voice», but this voice emanates from a communication system which is actually «outside» of the body which speaks it. Movement toward ecstasy is therefore not a release from system but a supreme manifestation of it.
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