03537oam 22005534a 450 991013152110332120230621135411.0(CKB)3710000000499582(SSID)ssj0001682814(PQKBManifestationID)16508013(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001682814(PQKBWorkID)15037159(PQKB)10502841(OCoLC)1176455038(MdBmJHUP)muse87125(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35660(oapen)doab35660(EXLCZ)99371000000049958220200721e20202015 uy 0engurm|#||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMy Gay Middle AgesA.W. StrouseBrooklyn, NYpunctum books2015Baltimore, Maryland :Project Muse,2020©20201 online resource (69 pages) illustrations, portrait; PDF, digital file(s)Poems.Print version: 9780615830001 In the world of My Gay Middle Ages, Chaucer and Boethius are the secret-sharers of A.W. Strouse's "gay lifestyle." Where many scholars of the Middle Ages would "get in from behind" on cultural history, Strouse instead does a "reach around." He eschews academic "queer theory" as yet another tedious, normative framework, and writes in the long, fruity tradition of irresponsible, homo-medievalism (a lineage that includes luminaries like Oscar Wilde, who was sustained by his amateur readings of Dante and Abelard during the darks days of his incarceration for crimes of "gross indecency"). Strouse experiences medieval literature and philosophy as a part of his everyday life, and in these prose poems he makes the case for regarding the Middle Ages as a kind of technology of self-preservation, a posture through which to spiritualize the petty indignities of modern urban life. With a Warholian flair for insouciant name-dropping and a Steinian appetite for syntactic perversion, Strouse monumentalizes the medieval within the contemporary and the contemporary within the medieval."Today, almost nobody reads Boethius, which if you ask me is a crying shame. Because Boethius is so gay. First of all, the heroine of the Consolation is this great big fierce diva, whose name is Lady Philosophy. She's a Lady, and she doesn't stand for anybody's crap. At the beginning of the book, Boethius is crying, all alone in prison, depressed that he's lonely and loveless and is going to be killed. Lady Philosophy descends from the heavens, à la Glinda the Good Witch in The Wizard of Oz. The first thing Boethius notices about her is that she's wearing an amazing dress with Greek letters embroidered on it--they stand for practical and theoretical philosophy. Her dress has been torn to shreds by the hands of uncouth philosophers. They didn't know how to treat a lady." (from "My Boethius").Biographical poetry, AmericanProse poems, AmericanMiddle AgesPoetryGay menPoetryPoetry.Electronic books. Biographical poetry, American.Prose poems, American.Middle AgesGay menStrouse A. W.876584MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910131521103321My gay Middle Ages1957382UNINA02539oas 2200925 a 450 991014442540332120260218112804.01732-2693(DE-599)ZDB2150116-6(OCoLC)54687414(CONSER) 2004243179(CKB)954927563654(DE-599)2150116-6(EXLCZ)9995492756365420040211a19499999 sy bpolurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPostȩpy higieny i medycyny doświadczalnejWrocław Redakcja "Postępów Higieny i Medycyny Doświadczalnej" Instytut Immunologii i Terapii Doświadczalnej PANWarsaw, Poland SciendoRefereed/Peer-reviewed0032-5449 PHMDAdvances in hygiene and experimental medicineAHEMPostepy Hig Med Dosw (Online)HygienePeriodicalsMedicineResearchPeriodicalsHygieneMedicineResearchHygiènePériodiquesMédecineRecherchePériodiquesHygienefast(OCoLC)fst00965349MedicineResearchfast(OCoLC)fst01015059HigienaczasopismajhpkMedycyna doświadczalnaczasopismajhpkPeriodical.Periodicals.fastHygieneMedicineResearchHygiene.Medicine.Research.HygièneMédecineRechercheHygiene.MedicineResearch.HigienaMedycyna doświadczalnaczasopisma.Instytut Immunologii i Terapii Doświadczalnej (Polska Akademia Nauk)NLMNLMOCLCQIULOCLCEOCLCQCUSOCLCQOCLCFOCLCOCUDNTEOCLCQOCLCOOCLCQOCLCOOCLCAOCLCQDLCLNDOCLCLOCLCQJOURNAL9910144425403321Postȩpy higieny i medycyny doświadczalnej1913491UNINA