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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... consider that a misreading of this kind may on occasion be more productive than a more correct meaning . For one thing , a mis- reading of this kind may lead to what Greene has called a mistransla- tion.11 He is referring to the process ...
... consider is that the use of such language is not proof that sexual activity did not take place . This is simple logic : two men who speak very affectionately of each other and who kiss each other are surely more likely to be having sex ...
... consider the association of the pastoral with loss I want to return briefly to the Ganymede myth . What interests me about this myth is how we have to think about it in order to consider it a triumphant story . Ganymede goes to Heaven ...
... consider why the most common choice of setting for homoerotic literature has been the pastoral landscape , which is , as Alpers's discus- sion of Schiller can be taken to suggest , both a different time -- the early years of a ...
... consider how it is that we decide which things go in which of those two catego- ries . For this reason , forms of sexual expression deemed to be unnatural have often found a place in pastoral poetry , as Gregory M. Bredbeck notes : ' In ...
Inhalt
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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