Sodomy and Interpretation: Marlowe to MiltonA wide-ranging account of the significance of sodomy in the rich discourse of early modern England from 1590 to 1660. The author sets for a challenging reinterpretation of the historicity of homosexuality, reading a variety of Renaissance texts in the light of the work of such contemporary theorists as Foucault, Kristeva, Deleuze, Guattari, Hocquenghem, Derrida, and Althusser. -- adapted from back cover |
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... Nature to commit the detestable sin of Sodomy , is called Ganymede , or ingle . Catamite ( catamitus ) a boy hired to be abused contrary to nature , a Ganymede . 32 In sheer numbers of words alone , the nomenclature of homo- eroticism ...
... Nature to commit the detestable sin of Sodomy , is called Ganymede , or ingle . Catamite ( catamitus ) a boy hired to be abused contrary to nature , a Ganymede . 32 In sheer numbers of words alone , the nomenclature of homo- eroticism ...
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... natural . " If " nature " is a system of ordered meaning — the universal public manuscript of God , as Thomas Browne would call it - then both of these poetic exam- ples support this system by constructing various eroticisms as discrete ...
... natural . " If " nature " is a system of ordered meaning — the universal public manuscript of God , as Thomas Browne would call it - then both of these poetic exam- ples support this system by constructing various eroticisms as discrete ...
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... nature , in making things either better than na- ture bringeth forth , or , quite anew , forms such as never were in nature , as the Heroes , Demigods , Cyclopes , Chimeras , Furies , and such like : so as he goeth hand in hand with nature ...
... nature , in making things either better than na- ture bringeth forth , or , quite anew , forms such as never were in nature , as the Heroes , Demigods , Cyclopes , Chimeras , Furies , and such like : so as he goeth hand in hand with nature ...
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References to this book
Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England: A Cultural Poetics Bruce R. Smith No preview available - 1995 |