Dialogue and Deviance: Male-Male Desire in the Dialogue Genre (Plato to Aelred, Plato to Sade, Plato to the Postmodern)

by Robert S. Sturges

Book Overview

This book traces the historical relationship between male-male erotic desire and the genre of literary or philosophical dialogue. It describes three literary-philosophical traditions, each of which originates in a different Platonic dialogue whose subsequent influence can be traced, first, through the Roman and medieval periods; second, through the Renaissance and Enlightenment periods; and, finally, through the modern and postmodern periods. Sturges...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349385999
• ISBN13: 9781349385997
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.0"