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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... setting of the pastoral ( a setting that is classical in both senses of the word ) was clearly something that only existed in poetry . V Before I consider the association of the pastoral with loss I want to return briefly to the ...
... setting for homoerotic literature has been the pastoral landscape , which is , as Alpers's discus- sion of Schiller can be taken to suggest , both a different time -- the early years of a particular culture or the early years of the ...
... setting is so clearly marked as remote has been seized upon as an opportunity by many writers , as David M. Halperin remarks : ' its usefulness was perceived to lie chiefly in satire or allegory . Pastoral afforded a vehicle for veiled ...
... settings underscores the allusive as well as the innovative elements in each individual text . 43 While I agree with Perry's comments on allusion , I want to make the point that the artificiality of pastoral poetry is itself a fiction ...
... setting and the separation caused by the fact that the man who was beloved is now dead - gives the poet the space and the freedom to expatiate on the love of one man for another : homoerotic expressions may be excused as the hyperbole ...
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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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