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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The Poetics of Loss in Renaissance Literature Stephen Guy-Bray. STEPHEN GUY - BRAY HOMOEROTIC SPACE The Poetics of Loss in Renaissance Literature The Poetics of Loss in Renaissance Literature Sexual politics in. Front Cover.
... 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 connec- tions . In this ...
... political elements ' - or , for that matter , that those elements can be neatly removed from a text . In fact , because their biases are easier to spot , avowedly literary and political texts may well be of greater use than seemingly ...
... political matters.40 Shepherds are presumed to be free from social rules and restrictions and this freedom can be presented as something that we should envy . The operations of the state ( the imposition of its will ) are not absent ...
... political use of pastoral poetry , and for this reason much pastoral poetry has been read as forming part of a larger debate about the relative merits of the country and the city . The unproblematic homoeroticism of pastoral labourers ...
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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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