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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... speaking of the first idyll ) they will be likely to think that the eroticism in question is homoeroticism . I am looking for the presence in classical texts of what readers in societies influenced by Christian ideas of sexuality might ...
... speak of homosexuality as having existed in the Renaissance , we will be expected to disagree with any statement that posits its existence . Still , although I do not feel that it is accurate to speak of homosexuality or of homosexuals ...
... speak of another man as his bedfellow and that he would speak of kissing him cannot be taken as proof of any sexual activity between the two.21 This is obviously true as far as it goes , but what Bray does not appear ready to consider ...
... speak about nature we are really speaking about different forms of ' social representation . ' Most of the pastoral poems I shall discuss are in fact pastoral elegies . Perhaps more than any other kind of poetry , this one has lent ...
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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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