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Queer (Re)Readings in the French Renaissance - Homosexuality, Gender, Culture (Paperback)
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Queer (Re)Readings in the French Renaissance - Homosexuality, Gender, Culture (Paperback)
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Focusing on multiple aspects of Renaissance culture, and in
particular its preoccupation with the reading and rewriting of
classical sources, this book examines representations of
homosexuality in sixteenth-century France. Analysing a wide range
of texts and topics, it presents an assessment of queer theory that
is grounded in historical examples, including French translations
of Boccaccio's Decameron, the poetry of Ronsard, works in praise of
and satirising Henri III and his mignons, Montaigne's Essais,
BrantAme's Dames galantes, the figures of the androgyne and the
hermaphrodite, and religious discourses and practices of penance
and confession. Close comparison with the ancient models on which
they drew - the elegy and epic, the works of Plato, Ovid, Lucian,
and others - reveals Renaissance writers redeploying an established
set of cultural understandings and assumptions at once congruent
and at odds with their own society's socio-sexual norms. Throughout
this study, emphasis is placed on the coexistence of different
models of homosexuality during the Renaissance - homosexual desire
was simultaneously universal and individual, neither of these views
excluding the other. Insisting equally on points of convergence and
difference between Renaissance and modern understandings of
homosexuality, this book works towards a historicisation of the
concept of queerness.
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