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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... fact ) , Wyatt's poems stand on their own as literature in the way that more accurate translations , such as Robert M. Durling's excellent prose versions in his dual - language edition of Petrarch , do not . Furthermore , I am not ...
... fact , because their biases are easier to spot , avowedly literary and political texts may well be of greater use than seemingly impartial texts . Bray's implicit distinction between fan- ciful literary texts and a historical reality ...
... fact that a man would speak of another man as his bedfellow and that he would speak of kissing him cannot be taken as proof of any sexual activity between the two.21 This is obviously true as far as it goes , but what Bray does not ...
... fact that it is definitionally homoerotic . True lovers of antiquity ( unlike Bandinelli ) are above all lovers and , more specifically lovers of the beauty of boys.27 Barkan goes on to point out that ' Cellini sets these works in a ...
... fact that the pastoral setting is so clearly marked as remote has been seized upon as an opportunity by many writers , as David M. Halperin remarks : ' its usefulness was perceived to lie chiefly in satire or allegory . Pastoral ...
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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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