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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... spirit , whose transformation from tran- scendent entity to helper of the Castlehaven family is presented as a movement from divinity to pastoral shepherd : “ I must put off / These my sky robes spun out of Iris ' Woof , / And take the ...
... spirit , whose transformation from tran- scendent entity to helper of the Castlehaven family is presented as a movement from divinity to pastoral shepherd : “ I must put off / These my sky robes spun out of Iris ' Woof , / And take the ...
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... spirits are fully associated with the flesh and its weaknesses , and this image is brought to its culmination in the picture of the last spirit , Belial : " a Spirit more lewd / Fell not from Heaven , or more gross to love / Vice for ...
... spirits are fully associated with the flesh and its weaknesses , and this image is brought to its culmination in the picture of the last spirit , Belial : " a Spirit more lewd / Fell not from Heaven , or more gross to love / Vice for ...
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... spirits in book 1 , the narrative voice intercedes to tell how spirits when they please Can either Sex assume , or both ; so soft And uncompounded is thir Essence pure , Not ti'd or manacl'd with joint or limb , Nor founded on the ...
... spirits in book 1 , the narrative voice intercedes to tell how spirits when they please Can either Sex assume , or both ; so soft And uncompounded is thir Essence pure , Not ti'd or manacl'd with joint or limb , Nor founded on the ...
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References to this book
Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England: A Cultural Poetics Bruce R. Smith No preview available - 1995 |