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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... connection between sodomy and classical languages . One of the best statements of this connection comes from an article on Marlowe by Claude J. Summers : From Greco - Roman history , literature , and myth came potent symbols and ...
... connections he makes between loss and poetry . I then look at how a homoerotic and elegiac mode continues in the Aeneid . My first Renaissance chapter is on Castiglione's ' Alcon , ' Sur- rey's ' So crewell prison , ' and Milton's ...
... connection they make between spatial and linguistic con- siderations and because they present the use of large - scale systems as an act of interpretation . Consumers of texts , even of the famous classi- cal texts central to ...
... connection between homosexuality and despair . Still , in a volume that concentrates upon a triumphant story of male love , it is important to recollect how powerful is the mythic and mythological tradition that associates it with ...
... 45 VI Up to this point , I have concentrated on pastoral poetry . There is , however , another kind of poetry that has often provided poets with homoerotic space : war poetry . The connection between these 18 Introduction.
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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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