Homoerotic Space: The Poetics of Loss in Renaissance LiteratureUniversity of Toronto Press, 01.01.2002 - 265 Seiten Sexual politics in the Renaissance dictated a strong opposition to any kind of homoerotic attachments, or discussion thereof, forcing Renaissance poets and playwrights to find other means of representing these connections. In this compelling and intriguing work, Stephen Guy-Bray argues that early modern authors used renditions of Theocritan and Virgilian pastoral, as well as epic poetry, for the exploration and the allusive presentation of homoerotic and homosocial themes. Drawing on the poetry and plays by such authors as Castiglione, the Earl of Surrey, Milton, Spenser, Barnfield, William Browne, Shakespeare, and Beaumont and Fletcher, Guy-Bray investigates how some authors used these classical models to represent homoeroticism, while others found the inherent homoeroticism of these poems to be problematic. Discussing both content and form of Renaissance and Classical literature, Guy-Bray's work engages in an important and frequently heated debate about the history of homoeroticism as well as questions of literary history and the interpretation of texts. |
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... Theocritus's Idylls and then turn to Virgil's development of this model in his eclogues and the connections he makes between loss and poetry . I then look at how a homoerotic and elegiac mode continues in the Aeneid . My first ...
... Theocritus , to look at how the twelfth idyll suggests the possibility of a very different homoerotic tradition in literature - one that is only now beginning to be written . I In the past twenty years or so , attempts to trace a canon ...
... Theocritus because of ' Lycidas . ' As Thomas Greene has pointed out , learning about the classics in this way can be problematic for conscientious readers : Reading imitations makes even larger claims on the historical imagination than ...
... Theocritus's first idyll and the eviction of goatherds in Virgil's first eclogue ; by the sixteenth century , with greater population density and greater governmental control of land and land use , the setting of the pastoral ( a ...
... Theocritus , who is considered to be the first pastoral poet : Throughout the Idylls , both the poet and his characters repeatedly recreate , in diminished forms , the heroism they leave behind . Attempts to evade this dilemma ...
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Classical Pastoral and Elegy | 24 |
The Aeneid and the Persistence of Elegy | 57 |
The Space of the Tomb | 85 |
Pastoral and the Shirking of Homoerotic Space | 133 |
Idylls and Kings | 176 |
Postscript | 216 |
NOTES | 225 |
WORKS CITED | 247 |
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