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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... tradition out of the classical works that they had been enjoined to study , and that by fol- lowing these classical models they were also able to continue this tradition . The homoerotic continuity between Renaissance and classical ...
... tradition in literature - one that is only now beginning to be written . I In the past twenty years or so , attempts to trace a canon of homosexual works have tended to be dismissed as naive . Such attempts are naive if the assumption ...
... tradition I have suggested does not extend from ancient Greece to the sixteenth century in a continuous manner . This is partly because the Renaissance had a very different idea of homoeroticism . In Renaissance England , the term ...
... tradition of interpretation that denies or sublimates the latent sexual content ; a lived society in which pederastic or other homosexual relations may be undertaken.26 Barkan appears to see the tradition of interpretation as ...
... tradition has usually sought to rule out homoerotic content , often in doing so it has nonetheless admit- ted that such an interpretation is held by some people . Yet interpreta- tion is not only a question of the official scholarly ...
Inhalt
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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