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. |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 55
... context , in which , again , a category of persons was identified with an activity.12 The best account of the history of sodomy in this era is Alan Bray's Homosexuality in Renaissance England , which he followed with ' Homosexuality and ...
... context in which homosexuality is encoded in Renaissance literature always includes homophobia , yet the signs of early modern culture are more varied , subtle , and multivalent than any monistic culture can accommodate.'15 Bray goes on ...
... context , was more concerned with the similarities among the various expressions of love than in differ- ences of kind or degree ( or , it would appear , in differences of gender ) . Furthermore , De copia is an educational text whose ...
... context of loss , '28 and he develops this point in a crucial footnote : I do not mean to establish a Hollywood - in - the - fifties - style connection between homosexuality and despair . Still , in a volume that concentrates upon a ...
... context of poetry that celebrates nature . This is not to say that pastoral poetry is inherently subversive : nothing is inherently subversive . My point is that , as Halperin suggests , pastoral poetry seems to offer an opportunity for ...
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 |
261 | |