Homoerotic Space: The Poetics of Loss in Renaissance Literature: The Politics of Loss in Renaissance Literature - Hardcover

Guy-Bray, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802036775 ISBN 13: 9780802036773

Verlag: PAPERBACKSHOP UK IMPORT, 2002

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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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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Stephen Guy-Bray is a professor in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia.

STEPHEN GUY-BRAY is Assistant Professor of English, University of Calgary.

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'Both Renaissance and classical queer scholarship will be enriched by this book sparkling with provocative arguments and fresh analyses. Guy-Bray's knowledge of the classics is admirable and his reading of the Renaissance uses of them is impressive.'

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: PAPERBACKSHOP UK IMPORT
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0802036775
• ISBN 13: 9780802036773
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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