Utopia and dystopia in homoerotic territory in Alan Hollinghurst's "The swimming-pool library", "The folding star" and "The spell"
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10835/1127
ISSN: 1578-3820
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i11.320
ISSN: 1578-3820
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i11.320
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This essay aims at exploring the use of pastoral Arcadia as a privileged territory for English homoerotic literature to unfold, putting special emphasis on Alan Hollinghurst’s first three novels so far. With this purpose, I think particularly worth noting Terry Gifford’s Pastoral (1999), where he points out the main characteristics of classic pastoral –a utopian genre deeply embedded in English landscape culture and writing–, as well as the dystopian anti-pastoral and post-pastoral. With this in mind, the essay delves into Hollinghurst’s novels to determine whether and, if so, how they make use, update or re-negotiate pastoral traditions to meet the needs of gay writing at the turn of the millennium. Este artículo pretende explorar el uso de la Arcadia pastoril como un terrero privilegiado para el desarrollo de la literatura homoerótica inglesa, haciendo especial énfasis en las tres novelas que Alan Hollinghurst ha publicado hasta la fecha. Con este fin, me parece relevante hacer refer...
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Arcadia
Utopia
Dystopia
Homoerotic Literature
Pastoral
Anti-Pastoral
Post-Pastoral
Distopia
Literatura Homoerótica
Literatura pastoril
Anti-Pastoril
Post-Pastoril