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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... desire could be encoded into their own literature and by which they could interpret their own experience.5 To these heroes , images , and references I would add genres . In this book , I argue that certain classical genres ...
... desire . The homoeroticism of many classical texts ( including some of the most celebrated of them ) was often given Christian interpretation or simply ignored . Nevertheless , these classical texts were read and taught and cited as ...
... desire for a happy ending , I return to 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 ...
... desires . " De Certeau's formulations are particularly helpful both be- cause of the connection they make between spatial and linguistic con- siderations and because they present the use of large - scale systems as an act of ...
... desire ; the myth of Ganymede along with a tradition of interpretation that denies or sublimates the latent sexual content ; a lived society in which pederastic or other homosexual relations may be undertaken.26 Barkan appears to see ...
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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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