A History of Gay Literature

A History of Gay Literature
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 474
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ISBN-10 : 0300080883
ISBN-13 : 9780300080889
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Download or read book A History of Gay Literature written by Gregory Woods and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account of male gay literature across cultures and languages and from ancient times to the present. It traces writing by and about homosexual men from ancient Greece and Rome through the Middle Ages and Renaissance to the twentieth-century gay literary explosion. It includes writers of wide-ranging literary status (from high cultural icons like Virgil, Dante, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Proust to popular novelists like Clive Barker and Dashiell Hammett) and of various locations (from Mishima s Tokyo and Abu Nuwas s Baghdad to David Leavitt s New York). It also deals with representations of male-male love by writers who were not themselves homosexual or bisexual men.


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