Setting Plato straight : translating ancient sexuality in the Renaissance /

In 'Setting Plato Straight', Todd W. Reeser undertakes the first sustained and comprehensive study of Renaissance textual responses to Platonic same-sex sexuality. Reeser mines an expansive collection of translations, commentaries, and literary sources to study how Renaissance translators...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reeser, Todd W., 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Temas:
Plato > Translations > History and criticism.
Plato > Themes, motives.
Plato
Homosexuality in literature.
Eroticism in literature.
Greek literature > Europe > Translations > History and criticism.
Translating and interpreting > Europe > History.
Homosexualité dans la littérature.
Érotisme dans la littérature.
Littérature grecque > Europe > Traductions > Histoire et critique.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY/Greek (Modern)
Eroticism in literature
Homosexuality in literature
Themes, motives
Translating and interpreting
Translations
Seksualiteit.
Oudheid.
Översättningar > historia.
Homosexualitet i litteraturen.
Grekisk litteratur > historia.
Europe
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Solving the problem with Plato
  • The antitheses of same-sex sexuality in Bruni
  • Ficino and the theory of purging same-sex sexuality
  • Ficino and the practice of purging same-sex sexuality
  • Importing Ficino: gender balance in Champier
  • Seducing Socrates: the Silenus in Erasmus and Rabelais
  • The gates of Germania: space, place, and sexuality in Cornarius
  • Fractured men: feminism and neoplatonism in mid-sixteenth-century France
  • Orientations: female-female and male-male eros in dialogue
  • Reading sexuality skeptically in Montaigne
  • Conclusion: bending Plato.

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