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'Lizard, the Greeks Called It': Guy Davenport and the Uranian Present

Authors

KAYLOR Michael Matthew

Year of publication 2005
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Cultural Studies at the Turn of the Millennium
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Field Mass media, audiovision
Keywords Guy Davenport; The Jules Verne Steam Balloon; Uranian; Pederasty; Paederasty; Homoeroticism; Gay Studies
Description This paper considers the late Guy Davenport's collection of stories 'The Jules Verne Steam Balloon' and how these display many of the same textual techniques and contain many of the same themes as the pederastic writings of the Victorian and Edwardian Uranians, suggesting that that literary tradition did not end in the 1930s, but continues even today.

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