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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... beginning of this project . Both this book and its author are better because of him . I would like to thank the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada , the University of Calgary , and Red Deer College for essen- tial ...
... beginning to be written . I In the past twenty years or so , attempts to trace a canon of homosexual works have tended to be dismissed as naive . Such attempts are naive if the assumption behind them is that there have always been men ...
... beginning of his discussion , Perry remarks that ' [ p ] astoral ... is a literary kind which tends to be explicitly concerned with " the allusive presences " of its predecessors ; the sheer artifice and conven- tionality of pastoral ...
... beginning , as Judith Haber points out in her comments on 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 ...
... beginnings of the society in which the poets write . The pastoral setting may be presented as a simpler and more virtuous version of the court and city , a version that recalls the early days of the nation in question . There is often ...
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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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