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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The Poetics of Loss in Renaissance Literature Stephen Guy-Bray. This book is for my parents and my sister . CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Vii Introduction 3 1 Classical Pastoral and Elegy.
... Elegy 24 2 The Aeneid and the Persistence of Elegy 57 3 The Space of the Tomb 85 4 Pastoral and the Shrinking of Homoerotic Space 133 5 Idylls and Kings 176 Postscript 216 NOTES 225 WORKS CITED 247 INDEX 261 I have been working on this ...
... this book , I argue that certain classical genres - particularly the pastoral and the elegy - were frequently encoded as homoerotic . The use of classical literature was twofold : the features mentioned by Summers can 4 Introduction.
... elegy . I then look at Renaissance pastorals ( Spenser's Shepheardes Calender and , to a lesser extent , ' Colin Clouts Come Home Againe , ' the pastoral poetry of Barnfield , and Browne's Britannia's Pastorals ) and the problems faced ...
... elegy is not only the most obvious literary manifestation of this dy- namic32 but also a form central to our culture as a whole . Furthermore , what is lost in the elegy is not just the particular man whose death is mourned : as the elegy ...
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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 |
261 | |