LEADER 03537oam 22005534a 450 001 9910131521103321 005 20230621135411.0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000499582 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001682814 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16508013 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001682814 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)15037159 035 $a(PQKB)10502841 035 $a(OCoLC)1176455038 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse87125 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35660 035 $a(oapen)doab35660 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000499582 100 $a20200721e20202015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurm|#||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMy Gay Middle Ages$fA.W. Strouse 210 $aBrooklyn, NY$cpunctum books$d2015 210 1$aBaltimore, Maryland :$cProject Muse,$d2020 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (69 pages) $cillustrations, portrait; PDF, digital file(s) 300 $aPoems. 311 08$aPrint version: 9780615830001 330 $aIn 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, a? 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"). 606 $aBiographical poetry, American 606 $aProse poems, American 606 $aMiddle Ages$vPoetry 606 $aGay men$vPoetry 608 $aPoetry. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aBiographical poetry, American. 615 0$aProse poems, American. 615 0$aMiddle Ages 615 0$aGay men 700 $aStrouse$b A. W.$0876584 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910131521103321 996 $aMy gay Middle Ages$91957382 997 $aUNINA