Homoeroticism and Chivalry: Discourses of Male Same-Sex Desire in the 14th Century

ISBN-13: 9781349730681 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 216 str.

Richard E. Zeikowitz; R. Zeikowitz; Bonnie Wheeler

Opis

This book explores various discourses of male same-sex desire in diverse fourteenth-century chivalric texts.

Spis treści

Articulating Premodern Male Homoeroticism PART ONE: AFFIRMATIONS OF MALE SAME-SEX DESIRE Introduction: Promoting Homosocial Intimacy Chivalric Bonds and the Ideals of Friendship Competing Desires Homoerotic Identifications Male-Male Gazing PART TWO: DENIGRATIONS OF MALE SAME-SEX DESIRE Introduction: Sodomy as a Discursive Weapon Sodomy, Politics, and Male-Male Desire Dramatized Sodomitical Discourse: The Case of Troilus and Pandarus Afterword: Queer Lessons from the Fourteenth-Century

O autorze

RICHARD E. ZEIKOWITZ is Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Alabama.