Author | : Mark Lilly |
File Size | : 49,7 Mb |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 01 November 1993 |
ISBN | : 9780814750810 |
Pages | : 249 pages |
Gay Men s Literature in the Twentieth Century by Mark Lilly Book PDF Summary
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.