Reclaiming the sacred : the Bible in gay and lesbian culture / / Raymond-Jean Frontain, editor

• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2011
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (282 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9/920664
• Soggetto topico: Gay people's writings, English - History and criticism; Homosexuality and literature - Great Britain; Christianity and literature - Great Britain; English literature - History and criticism; Holy, The, in literature; Religion and literature; Lesbians in literature; Gay men in literature
• Altri autori: FrontainRaymond-Jean
• Note generali: First published by the Haworth Press, Inc., in 2003.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Reclaiming the Sacred: The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture; Copyright; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE EDITOR; CONTRIBUTORS; Preface to the Second Edition; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Homoerotic Texts in the Apocrypha: "Naked Man with Naked Man"; Chapter 3 The Discourse of Sodom in a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Text; Chapter 4 The (Homo)Sexual Temptation in Milton's Paradise Regained; Chapter 5 Bakhtinian Grotesque Realism and the Subversion of Biblical Authority in Rochester's Sodom; Chapter 6 "What a Friend We Have in Jesus": Same-Sex Biblical Couples in Victorian Literature ; Chapter 7 Missionary Positions: Reading the Bible in E. M. Forster's "The Life to Come"Chapter 8 The Well of Loneliness, or The Gospel According to Radclyffe Hall; Chapter 9 Narrative Inversion: The Biblical Heritage of The Well of Loneliness and Desert of the Heart; Chapter 10 Inverted Conversions: Reading the Bible and Writing the Lesbian Subject in Jeanette Winterson's: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit; Chapter 11 "All Men Are Divine": Religious Mystery and Homosexual Identity in Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The second edition of Reclaiming the Sacred: The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture continues the groundbreaking work of the original, exploring the territory between gay/lesbian studies, literary criticism, and religious studies. This much-anticipated follow-up examines the appropriation and/or subversion of the authority of the Judeo-Christian Bible by gay and lesbian writers. The book highlights two prevalent trends in gay and lesbian literature?a transgressive approach that challenges the authority of the Bible when used as an instrument of oppression, and an appropriative technique that exp
• Titolo autorizzato: Reclaiming the sacred
• ISBN: 0-203-05718-X; 1-299-46051-8; 1-136-57096-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779687803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II