A History of Gay Literature: The Male TraditionYale University Press, 1 janv. 1998 - 456 pages This important book is the first full-scale account of male gay literature across cultures, languages, and centuries. A work of reference as well as the definitive history of a tradition, it traces writing by and about homosexual men from ancient Greece and Rome to the twentieth-century gay literary explosion. "Woods' own artistry is evident throughout this elegant and startling book. . . . These finely honed gay readings of selected Western (and some Eastern) literary texts richly reward the careful attention they demand. . . . Though grounded in the particulars of gay male identity, this masterpiece of literary (and social) criticism calls across the divides of sex and sexual orientation."--Kirkus Reviews (a starred review) "An encyclopedic mapping of the intersection between male homosexuality and belles lettres . . . [that is] good reading, in part because Woods has foregone strict chronology to link writers across eras and cultures."--Louis Bayard, Washington Post Book World "Encyclopedic and critical, evenhanded and interpretive, Woods has produced a study that stands as a monument to the progress of gay literary criticism. No one to date has attempted such a grand world-wide history. . . . It cannot be recommended highly enough."--Library Journal (a starred review) "A bold, intelligent and gorgeously encyclopedic study."--Philip Gambone, Lambda Book Report "An exemplary piece of work."--Jonathan Bate, The Sunday Telegraph |
Table des matières
The Making of the Gay Tradition | 1 |
The Greek Classics | 17 |
The Roman Classics | 32 |
The Christian Middle Ages | 41 |
The Orient | 53 |
The European Renaissance | 68 |
Christopher Marlowe | 84 |
William Shakespeare | 93 |
The Harlem Renaissance | 209 |
The Tragic Sense of Life | 217 |
Fantastic Realism | 226 |
Towards the Popular | 237 |
The Pink Triangle | 247 |
The PostWar StartingPoint | 257 |
3233 | 267 |
25 | 289 |
The Pastoral Elegists | 108 |
From Libertinism to the Gothic | 124 |
New Bearings in the Novel | 136 |
The American Renaissance | 151 |
Muscular Aestheticism | 167 |
Spirit Versus Physique | 181 |
Marcel Proust | 192 |
Homosexual Men by Women | 201 |
27 | 305 |
28 | 321 |
30 | 344 |
31 | 359 |
Notes | 390 |
Bibliography | 406 |
Illustration Credits | 446 |