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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... Society in 1999 and 2000 , the 16th Century Studies confer- ence in 2000 , the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies conference in 2000 , and colloquia at the University of British Columbia and the University of Calgary . I would like ...
... society in which homoeroticism was more or less strictly regulated . Perhaps an example is in order . To readers brought up in Christian societies , characteriza- tions of sexuality as either natural or unnatural will be only too ...
... societies should be run and about what values and actions were to be prized by a society that , like sixteenth - century England , had imperial aspirations and com- pared itself to ancient Rome . In Sodometries , Jonathan Goldberg ...
... society altogether . In particular , his article ' Homosexuality and the Signs of Male Friendship in Elizabethan England ' rests on an untenable polari- zation of sodomy and friendship . For instance , Bray devotes about one- quarter of ...
... Society as triumphant . Although my main concern is not with Ganymede - or , indeed , with triumph - the formulations of these critics , and of Barkan in particular , are useful to me . Barkan says that [ w ] e are dealing with 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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