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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... genres . In 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 ...
... genre in Theocritus's Idylls and then turn to Virgil's development of this model in his eclogues and the connections he makes between loss and poetry . I then look at how a homoerotic and elegiac mode continues in the Aeneid . My first ...
... genre increasingly focused on heteroeroticism . My last chapter is on Beaumont and Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy and Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale . I chose these works rather than the Renaissance poetic epic because these playwrights ...
... genre that begins in the classical period with such losses as the death of Daphnis in Theocritus's first idyll and the eviction of goatherds in Virgil's first eclogue ; by the sixteenth century , with greater population density and ...
... genre was usually employed by people who wished to make religious or political points , but the potential for homoerotic space was always present . The use of the pastoral has been studied most recently by Curtis Perry . His excellent ...
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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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