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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... poetic epic because these playwrights engage with the problem of the containment of the intense bonds among men that ... poets , and that classical texts , written in a period in which it was relatively easy to discuss homoeroticism ...
... poet's sense of what is useful for his own text . To use one of Greene's examples , misunderstandings of this kind are everywhere in Wyatt's translations of Petrarch . Because their diver- gences from the Italian originals are numerous ...
... poets : they were also seen as people who had much to teach about how societies should be run and about what values ... poetic and theatrical writings on sodomy , Bray says that ' [ w ] hen all the purely literary and political elements ...
... poet contrasts the nature of art and the ideal of reality in such a way that the representation of the former preponderates and pleasure in it becomes the dominant emotion , then I call it elegiac ... Nature and the ideal are an object ...
... poet ] renders it subject to control ; it need not endanger his established selfhood or his allegiance to the imperfect world that he knows.39 All the features of the pastoral landscape and of the people who inhabit it may temporarily ...
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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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