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Himself an actor, director, and producer, Hodges offers the text of ten plays that illustrate the growth of an influential movement in the theater through the course of the century. They range from Sholom Asch's 1910 The God of Vengeance to Terrance McNally's 1994 Love! Valour! Compassion!. Annotation ♭2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
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While many books have been written about gay writing, this is the first full-scale account of male gay literature, across cultures, languages, and from ancient times to the present. Working within the widest definitions of what constitutes gay literature, it includes chapters on the significant periods of cultural history (the Greek and Roman civilisations, the Middle Ages, the European Renaissance, the American major writers (Marlowe, Shakespeare,...
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"Part reading journal, part literary criticism, The First Time I Met Frank O'Hara explores the works of heavyweights like Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Gore Vidal, as well as writers like Fitz-Greene Halleck, Glenway Wescott, Jane Bowles, David Wojnarowicz, and Henri Cole, among others."
"In Whitaker's commentary, he shows how powerfully gay literature has been impacted by societal mores. The First Time I Met Frank O'Hara begins...
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"Literature has always been concerned with questions of kinship, love, marriage, desire, family relationships. The central and privileged stories have tended to assume that desire will be desire between girl and boy. Obstacles are thrown in the way of desire. In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1597), the heroine and hero cannot marry because their families, the Montagues and the Capulets, are feuding. The obstacles which stand in the way of same-sex...
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The Queer Renaissance puts a name to the unprecedented outpouring of creative work by openly lesbian and gay novelists, poets, and playwrights in the past two decades. This volume is one of the first to critically analyze this cultural awakening and is one of the only books to consider the work of gay male and lesbian writers together. Most importantly, it is the first book to consider how this wave of creative activity has worked in tandem with a...
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