Displacing Homophobia

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Ronald R. Butters, John M. Clum, Michael Moon
Duke University Press, 1989 - 313 sivua
The editors have gathered essays that not only make a major contribution to the effort to replace homophobic discourse, but also speak persuasively to all readers interested in literature or literary history, contemporary theory, and popular culture.
 

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Sivu 172 - As defined by the ancient civil or canonical codes, sodomy was a category of forbidden acts; their perpetrator was nothing more than the juridical subject of them. The nineteenth-century homosexual became a personage, a past, a case history, and a childhood, in addition to being a type of life, a life form, and a morphology, with an indiscreet anatomy and possibly a mysterious physiology.
Sivu 11 - Two lads, that thought there was no more behind But such a day to-morrow as to-day, And to be boy eternal. Her. Was not my lord the verier wag o' the two ? Pol. We were as twinn'd lambs, that did frisk i...
Sivu 189 - Whosoever shall be convicted of the abominable Crime of Buggery, committed either with Mankind or with any Animal, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for Life or for any Term not less than Ten Years.
Sivu 29 - Horns of Dilemma: Jealousy, Gender, and Spectatorship in English Renaissance Drama,
Sivu 21 - The face of the Court was much changed in the change of the King ; for King Charles was temperate, chaste, and serious ; so that the fooles and bawds, mimicks and catamites, of the former Court, grew out of fashion...
Sivu 158 - All twenty-eight thousand acres of the richest land this side of the valley Nile.
Sivu 161 - I'm trying to catch the true quality of experience in a group of people, that cloudy, flickering, evanescent — fiercely charged! — interplay of five human beings in the thundercloud of a common crisis. Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play...
Sivu 24 - To this effect, Achilles, have I moved you : A woman impudent and mannish grown Is not more loathed than an effeminate man In time of action. I stand...
Sivu 23 - Musseus sung,) Dwelt at Abydos; since him dwelt there none For whom succeeding times make greater moan. His dangling tresses, that were never shorn, Had they been cut, and unto Colchos borne, Would have allured the venturous youth of Greece To hazard more than for the golden fleece.
Sivu 207 - Your sonnet is quite lovely, and it is a marvel that those red rose-leaf lips of yours should have been made no less for the music of song than for the madness of kisses. Your slim gilt soul walks between passion and poetry.

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