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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... least an implicit connection between sodomy and classical languages . One of the best statements of this connection comes from an article on Marlowe by Claude J. Summers : From Greco - Roman history , literature , and myth came potent ...
... least in the classical sense of the term . As Summers suggests , Renais- sance writers tended to treat the great Greek and Latin texts in part as repositories of images , metaphors , themes , and plots . Their educations encouraged them ...
... least to adumbrate , an emancipa- tory sexual discourse . To put it another way , the textual motion of the strong reader can be translated into the literal motion of cruising , in which people sexualize the urban spaces they inhabit ...
... least at certain times and by certain people , seen as models in life as well as in art . Despite Bray's ambivalence about literary texts , he makes frequent use of them in both his works . In Homosexuality in Renaissance England ...
... least in this context , was more concerned with the similarities among the various expressions of love than in differ- ences of kind or degree ( or , it would appear , in differences of gender ) . Furthermore , De copia is an ...
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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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