Queer Italia : same-sex desire in Italian literature and film / [edited by] Gary P. Cestaro.

Other author Cestaro, Gary P.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Descriptionvii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

SeriesItalian and Italian American studies
Italian and Italian American studies. ^A470355
Contents Queer Italia: same-sex desire in Italian literature and film / Gary P. Cestaro -- The Dead Sea of sodomy: Giordano da Pisa on men who have sex with men / Bernard Schlager -- Bibbiena's closet: interpretation and the sexual culture of a Renaissance papal court / Michael Wyatt -- Knots of desire: female homoeroticism in Orlando furioso 25 / Mary-Michelle DeCoste -- ACTing UP in the Renaissance: the case of Benvenuto Cellini / Margaret A. Gallucci -- "Nature is a mother most sweet": homosexuality in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italian libertinism / Giovanni Dall'Orto -- Tra(ns)vesting gender and genre in Flaminio Scala's Il (finto) marito / Rosalind Kerr -- Beauty and the beast: lesbians in literature and sexual science from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries / Daniela Danna -- Desire and disavowal in Liliana Cavani's "German trilogy" / Áine O'Healy -- Adapting to heterocentricity: the film versions of Umberto Saba's Ernesto and Giorgio Bassani's The gold-rimmed spectacles / William Van Watson -- Reluctantly queer: in search of the homoerotic novel in twentieth-century Italian fiction / Sergio Parussa -- Secret wounds: the bodies of fascism in Giorgio Bassani's Dietro la porta / Derek Duncan -- Transitive gender and queer performance in the novels of Mario Mieli and Vittorio Pescatori / Marco Pustianaz.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2003066427
ISBN0312240244 (cloth)
ISBN0312240260 (pbk.)

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