Queer Italia : Same-Sex Desire in Italian Literature and Film by Cestaro, Gary P instant download

Queer Italia : Same-Sex Desire in Italian Literature and Film by Cestaro, Gary P instant download

242 p. : 22 cm, Includes bibliographical references and index, 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 / 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 libertinism / Giovanni dall'Orto -- Tra(ns)vestying 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\" / Aine 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 twentienth 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