Dialogue and Deviance : Male-Male Desire in the Dialogue Genre (Plato to Aelred, Plato to Sade, Plato to the Postmodern) / by R. Sturges.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sturges, Robert Stuart, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Literary History.

Local Subjects:

Literary History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2005.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book traces the historical relationship between male-male erotic desire and the genre of literary or philosophical dialogue. It describes three literary-philosophical traditions, each of which originates in a different Platonic dialogue whose subsequent influence can be traced, first, through the Roman and medieval periods; second, through the Renaissance and Enlightenment periods; and, finally, through the modern and postmodern periods. Sturges demonstrates that various forms of erotic deviance have been differently valued in these different periods and cultures, and that dialogue has consistently proven to be the genre of choice for expressing these changing values. This study provides a valuable historical perspective on current debates over the place of homosexuality in modern Western culture.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Preface

Introduction

1 Erotics of Friendship: From Plato's Lysis to Aelred of Rievaulx

2 Spiritual Erotics: From Plato's Symposium to Sade's La Philosophie dans le boudoir

3 Erotic Style: From Plato's Phaedrus to the Modern Novel

Conclusion: Deviant Erotics from Plato to the Postmodern

Notes

Index

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O

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W

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Y

Z.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611363963

9781281363961

1281363960

9781403978516

1403978514

OCLC:

312479105