King's College London

TY - CHAP

T1 - Looking for Love, Finding Trouble—Reading Ancient World Literature, Passionately

T2 - (Bridge Essay: The Erotics and Politics of Love)

AU - Matzner, Sebastian

PY - 2020/2

Y1 - 2020/2

N2 - This essay discusses the methodological issues that arise when studying imaginative representations of love, desire, and affection in ancient world literature. It offers reflections on the kinds of textual material that come into view; considers different possible literary-critical frameworks for transcultural constellations of texts within (and beyond) the emerging corpus; and explores the particular pitfalls and potential of studying the erotics and politics of love in ancient world literature, both in relation to wider critical discussions on the theory and practice of world literature and to scholarly debates in the history of sexualities, queer studies, and reception studies.

AB - This essay discusses the methodological issues that arise when studying imaginative representations of love, desire, and affection in ancient world literature. It offers reflections on the kinds of textual material that come into view; considers different possible literary-critical frameworks for transcultural constellations of texts within (and beyond) the emerging corpus; and explores the particular pitfalls and potential of studying the erotics and politics of love in ancient world literature, both in relation to wider critical discussions on the theory and practice of world literature and to scholarly debates in the history of sexualities, queer studies, and reception studies.

KW - Love

KW - Love in literature

KW - SEXUALITY

KW - allegory

KW - DESIRE

KW - Homosexuality

KW - Queer

KW - IDENTITY

KW - Love poetry

KW - antiquity

KW - Reception

M3 - Chapter

VL - 1

BT - The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Literature

A2 - Seigneurie, Ken

PB - WILEY-BLACKWELL

ER -