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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 1. )In the last nine years of his short life, Jack Spicer completed a dozen books of poetry and established a poetic tradition on the West Coast that ran parallel, yet counter, to the contemporaneous Beat movement. As a...
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From:Gay & Lesbian BiographyOscar Wilde was born in Dublin on 16 October 1854 into the upper classes of Victorian society—one of the most rigidly directed societies the world has ever known. His mission in life was to break through the barriers of...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 2. )Any movement for change born out of the desire of a social minority to be heard and acknowledged will generate a literature which both articulates political goals and reflects the internal realities of the group. This...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 1. )The biography of Jean Genet is simultaneously well-known and obscure. Though Genet's own accounts of his early life varied and readers often confuse his actual life with his novelistic semi-autobiographical accounts,...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 2. )In 1990 the Freudian anti-feminist Camille Paglia burst onto the cultural criticism scene with Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence From Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, a probing study of the nature of sexual tropes through...
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From:Gay & Lesbian BiographyWith A la recherche du temps perdu, (literally In search of time lost or gone by, translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff as Remembrance of Things Past), Marcel Proust left his mark on modern literature. Both highly...
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From:Gay & Lesbian BiographyIt is nearly impossible to overestimate James Baldwin's importance as a public figure, a visionary, and a storyteller. The author of some two dozen books, Baldwin employed a wide range of voices and genres to tell his...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 1. )Commenting on poet James Merrill's early career, Richard Howard wrote in Alone with America that "the jealous voice of a man capable of no more than objets d'art addressing a man capable of an art transcending objects...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 1. )"Kramer equals controversy," wrote Paula Span in the Washington Post. From the time he burst on the gay literary scene with his novel Faggots, Larry Kramer has waged a war within and against a community built on sexual...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 1. )"When the Pulitzers showered on some dope / ... few people would consider why I took / to stalking sailors," wrote Robert Lowell as Crane in the sonnet, "Words for Hart Crane." The poem continues, "I / Catullus...
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From:Gay & Lesbian BiographyHans Christian Andersen remains one of the most revered children's writers. His plots are simple, but he combined a marvelous eye for detail with total mastery of the telling phrase. No one will ever forget the dog "with...
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From:Contemporary Poets (6th ed.)In one of his early poems Thom Gunn observes, famously, that Elvis Presley "turns revolt into a style." Elaborating this in the poem's final stanza, Gunn provides a peg on which we can, if we like, hang the immense...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 1. )At age 36, playwright Tony Kushner did not have a long list of productions to his credit, but he did have a Pulitzer Prize for a play that Newsweek called "the biggest event involving the gay movement in the history of...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 1. )Armistead Maupin's popular "Tales of the City" novels have appealed to a wide audience, overcoming the gays-only stigma attached to many openly homosexual authors who feature homosexual characters in their work. Although...
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From:Gay & Lesbian BiographyOne of the giants of modern French literature, André Gide had secured an international reputation several decades before he was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1947. Relying on the resources of a private...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 1. )Carson McCullers' importance to American literature was established with the publication of her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, in 1940. Her subsequent works, especially Reflections in a Golden Eye, in 1941,...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)William S. Burroughs is a novelist who is deeply involved with experimental writing and the investigation of his unconscious mind. In the years between his first book, Junkie, published in 1953 under the pseudonym of...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 1. )Michel Foucault has been called one of the most influential modern philosophers to have emerged since the 1960's. A contemporary of Jean Paul Sartre, Foucault's work has influenced a generation of scholars in a variety...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 2. )Frank Sargeson occupies a pre-eminent place in New Zealand literature, not only for the quality of his novels and short stories but also for his influence on later generations of New Zealand writers. Sargeson focused...
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From:Gay & Lesbian BiographyGiles Lytton Strachey was born on 1 March 1880 in London to an upper middle class family. He received early instruction in his studies from his mother who was domineering and eager for her son to become learned,...