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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... lives . Furthermore , we should remember that romantic love and friendly love are not unchanging natural objects , but rather are frequently modified and always socially contextualized , as the variety of the phrases offered by Erasmus ...
... live . Here , I am following Friedrich Schiller's famous views on the nature of pastoral art : If the poet contrasts the nature of art and the ideal of reality in such a way that the representation of the former preponderates and ...
... - and a different place - the unspoiled landscape that is so different from the civilized areas in which we live . The pastoral landscape is doubly suitable for homoerotic space because , as Eleanor Winsor Introduction 15.
... lives may themselves be artificial . In Renais- sance literature , the greater freedom afforded by the pastoral genre was usually employed by people who wished to make religious or political points , but the potential for homoerotic ...
... lives is a public issue . To me , what Perry refers to as ' the domestication of social criticism ' is a very promis- ing development indeed , as it implies the serious consideration of serious issues . Near the beginning of his ...
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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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