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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... seems - not just for us but also for the Renaissance writers I shall discuss - to exceed this category . In the Renaissance , as I see it , the continuum that Sedgwick has hypothesized between men who are friends and men who are lovers ...
... seems to offer an opportunity for stressing the extent to which the laws governing our lives may themselves be artificial . In Renais- sance literature , the greater freedom afforded by the pastoral genre was usually employed by people ...
... seem to be of national concern , but surely the question of how much power national bodies such as the church or the state should have over private lives is a public issue . To me , what Perry refers to as ' the domestication of social ...
... seem even less strange . The lament for Daphnis , in what is considered to be the first pastoral poem ever , is thus ... seems to exceed the bounds of the homosocial and become homoerotic may be figured in a text as a poetic excess or ...
... seem insufficient . As Dollimore remarks in his discussion of the poet C.P. Cavafy , ' aesthetic recompense only goes so far ; the risk of desire is always there , and never more so than in the experience of loss . 50 It is also a ...
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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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