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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... examples of proper style and high art throughout the Renaissance and long after . An educated Englishman would thus ... example of homoerotic poetry in classical literature . I concentrate on the most famous classical texts precisely ...
... examples of ' the practice of a particular place . ' II The Renaissance texts I shall discuss can all be classified as imitations , at least in the classical sense of the term . As Summers suggests , Renais- sance writers tended to ...
... example is in order . To readers brought up in Christian societies , characteriza- tions of sexuality as either ... examples , misunderstandings of this kind are everywhere in Wyatt's translations of Petrarch . Because their diver ...
... example of this conflation of categories that are to us so distinct can be found in Erasmus's De copia , a collection of phrases from classical authors , organized by topic . In section 119 , which deals with ways of expressing love ...
... examples cited in this section is that the love of one man for another is not utterly removed from other kinds of love or even what we would now call esteem . For some people , section 119 may well appear to be a homoerotic space , or ...
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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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