While "the male condition" is increasingly the focus of critical
inquiry, the first images to come to most minds are those
associated, ironically enough, with the resoundingly heterosexual
men's movement - sweat lodges, primal screams, etc. As these images
quickly become cliched, a more progressive and less primitivist
movement continues to gather strength, namely one that examines the
experiences and writings of homosexual men. In this groundbreaking
work, Mark Lilly takes us on an unprecedented tour, reintroducing
us, in clear, lively and non-technical language, to famous texts
and familiarizing us for the first time with less well-known
writings, from the standpoint of gay experience, sensibility and
sexual desire. In gay men's writing, tenderness lies side by side
with rage; existential rejection of convention rubs shoulders with
sexual hedonism. Beginning with Wilde's and Byron's existentialist
outlaw, the theme of social rebellion, and the fight against
conformity, form a common link among the literary works of the
twentieth century. But mainstream academic criticism has shown
itself for the most part incapable of engaging gay work without
distorting or ignoring its most central features. Gay Men's
Literature in the Twentieth Century presents us with a unified
analysis of certain central authors and texts in order to
investigate shared themes and patterns. James Baldwin, Christopher
Isherwood, Tennessee Williams, Lord Byron, Oscar Wilde, E. M.
Forster, Jean Genet, Joe Orton, Andrew Holleran, David Leavitt: all
figure central in the book, as do such subjects as the love poetry
of the First World War and the poems of Constantine Cavafy. One of
those rare titles that is written toappeal to non-specialists but
also contains scholarship so original it is must reading for anyone
interested in gay writing, Lilly's work is, to date, the most
unified treatment of gay men's writing.
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