Classical Culture and Modern Masculinity

Zusatztext Classical Culture and Modern Masculinity provides an in-depth look at the debate over ancient Greece's most controversial legacy. Informationen zum Autor Daniel Orrells is Associate Professor in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick. Zusammenfassung For nineteenth-century thinkers in Germany and Britain, who looked to Greece as the acme of past civilization, the Greeks' enjoyment of pederasty presented a problem. Daniel Orrells's study explores the way in which this awkward issue was negotiated. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Paiderastia and the Contexts of German Historicism 2: Translating the Love of Philosophy: Jowett and Pater on Plato 3: The Bewildering Case of John Addington Symonds 4: Trying Greek Love: Oscar Wilde and E. M. Forster's Maurice 5: Freud and the History of Masculinity: Between Oedipus and Narcissus Conclusion: The Truth of Eros and the Eros for Truth

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• Authors: Daniel Orrells, Daniel (Associate Professor in Classics and Ancient History Orrells, Orrells Daniel
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.08.2011
• EAN: 9780199236442
• ISBN: 978-0-19-923644-2
• No. of pages: 301
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Classical Presences; Classical Presences
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Sexualität, Texte: Antike und Mittelalter, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Psychology, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Ancient Rome, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Ancient History, Sociology: sexual relations, Classical history / classical civilisation, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Gender studies: men and boys, Gender Studies: Men, BCE to c 500 CE, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality, BCE period – Protohistory