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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Page 162
... poetry : 28 Only the poet , disdaining to be tied to any such subjection , lifted up with the vigor of his own invention , doth grow in effect another nature , in making things either better than na- ture bringeth forth , or , quite ...
... poetry : 28 Only the poet , disdaining to be tied to any such subjection , lifted up with the vigor of his own invention , doth grow in effect another nature , in making things either better than na- ture bringeth forth , or , quite ...
Page 170
... poet / poetry opposition becomes meaningless : where does the poet begin if we cannot find where the poem ends ? The difference of the Shakespearian invocation is also stressed by its placement , for , unlike a traditional invocation ...
... poet / poetry opposition becomes meaningless : where does the poet begin if we cannot find where the poem ends ? The difference of the Shakespearian invocation is also stressed by its placement , for , unlike a traditional invocation ...
Page 180
... poet within the language of sexual pos- sibility . For Shakespeare the sodomite destroys or uses up lan- guage and thereby establishes a space different from language for the poet . Barnfield's poems fold both the poet and the sodomite ...
... poet within the language of sexual pos- sibility . For Shakespeare the sodomite destroys or uses up lan- guage and thereby establishes a space different from language for the poet . Barnfield's poems fold both the poet and the sodomite ...
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References to this book
Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England: A Cultural Poetics Bruce R. Smith No preview available - 1995 |