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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... Male Friendship in Elizabethan England . ' Both works are immensely valuable to anyone writing about homoeroticism in the English Renaissance , and they have informed much of my own work ; but as my approach differs from Bray's , I ...
... Male Friendship in Elizabethan England ' rests on an untenable polari- zation of sodomy and friendship . For instance , Bray devotes about one- quarter of his article to an explanation of how the fact that a man would speak of another ...
... male love , it is important to recollect how powerful is the mythic and mythological tradition that associates it with barrenness and death.29 In Epistemology of the Closet , Sedgwick makes a similar connection that she also develops in ...
... male love in the classical tradition , as a story about the pastoral elegy's origin : ' the beloved of the lover is , paradoxically , killed by him- and , in dying , yields him his new genre . ' Of course , the pastoral elegy was ...
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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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