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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... look at some of the discussions classical lit- erature gave rise to in the Renaissance , a time when , as has frequently been noted , Latin became increasingly important to curricula and Greek was introduced into western Europe as a ...
... look at how a homoerotic and elegiac mode continues in the Aeneid . My first Renaissance chapter is on Castiglione's ' Alcon , ' Sur- rey's ' So crewell prison , ' and Milton's ' Epitaphium Damonis . ' Surrey's poem is probably the most ...
... look at Renaissance pastorals ( Spenser's Shepheardes Calender and , to a lesser extent , ' Colin Clouts Come Home Againe , ' the pastoral poetry of Barnfield , and Browne's Britannia's Pastorals ) and the problems faced by a lingering ...
... look at Renaissance texts as 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 ...
... look , for instance , to Achilles and Patroclos , to Virgilian shepherds , to David and Jonathan , to the iconography of St. Sebastian , to elegiac poetry by Milton , Tennyson , Whitman , and Housman , as well as to the Necrology of ...
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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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