Salome and the Dance of Writing

How does literature imagine its own powers of representation? Françoise Meltzer attempts to answer this question by looking at how the portrait—the painted portrait, framed—appears in various literary texts. Alien to the verbal system of the text yet mimetic of the gesture of writing, the textual portrait becomes a telling measure of literature

Salome and the Dance of Writing: Portraits of Mimesis in Literature (9780226519722): Françoise Meltzer - BiblioVault

Salome's Dance – Manuscript Art

Picturing the Paris Salome, May 1907

Salome and the Dance of Writing: Portraits of Mimesis in Literature, Meltzer

Salome and the dance of writing - Portraits of Mimesis in Literature

Salome: Was the dancing daughter of Herodias a child? - Marg Mowczko

Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination d0e9240

Salomé Perfume – Alkemia

For Fear of the Fire: Joan of Arc and the Limits of Subjectivity: 9780226519821: Meltzer, Françoise: Books

Salome, Where She Danced (1945) - IMDb

Romance Languages from the University of Chicago Press.

Musicologist Megan Varvir Coe talks about the Symbolist roots of Florent Schmitt's ballet La Tragédie de Salomé (1907/10).

Rochester Review :: University of Rochester