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. |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 75
... poets and playwrights to find other means of representing these connec- tions . In this compelling and intriguing ... poetry and plays by such authors as Castiglione , the Earl of Surrey , Milton , Spenser , Barnfield , William Browne ...
... poetry in classical literature . I concentrate on the most famous classical texts precisely because they are the most famous : they have most often been read , studied , and used as models for literary composition ; indeed , they are ...
... poetic epic because these playwrights engage with the problem of the containment of the intense bonds among men that are the rule rather than the exception in the pastoral and military milieus depicted in the classical poetry I discuss ...
... poetry . Barkan illustrates his third term , the relationship between literary forms and lived society , with an analysis of an anecdote from Cellini's autobiography about a dispute with the artist Bandinelli over both art and sexuality ...
... poetry as a whole . In order to appreci- ate Ganymede's triumph , we have to acknowledge the imperfection of the world in which we live . Here , I am following Friedrich Schiller's famous views on the nature of pastoral art : If the poet ...
Inhalt
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 |
261 | |