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Author : James Levin
Publisher : Scholarly Title
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Gay Novel in America written by James Levin and published by Scholarly Title. This book was released on 1991 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Slide
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136572155
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Lost Gay Novels written by Anthony Slide and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Searching for an introduction to the shadowy, intriguing world of early 20th century gay-themed fiction? In Lost Gay Novels, respected pop culture historian Anthony Slide resurrects fifty early 20th century American novels with gay themes or characters and discusses them in carefully researched, engaging prose. Each entry offers you a detailed discussion of plot and characters, a summary of contemporary critical reception, and biographical information on the often-obscure writer. In Lost Gay Novels, another aspect of gay life and society is, in the words the author, “uncloseted,” providing you with an absorbing glimpse into the world of these nearly forgotten books. Lost Gay Novels gives you an introduction to: authors who aren't usually associated with homosexuality, including John Buchan, James M. Cain, and Rex Stout the history of gay publishing in the US and abroad gay themes in novels published between 1917 and 1950—with entries from nearly every year! the ways in which the popular culture of the time shaped the authors' attitudes toward homosexuality the difficulty of finding detailed biographical information on little-known authors If you're interested in gay studies or history, or even if you're just looking for a comprehensive guide to titles you've probably never heard of before, Lost Gay Novels will be a welcome addition to your collection. The introduction from author Slide—called by the Los Angeles Times “a one-man publishing phenomenon”—provides you with an overview to the basics of this landmark collection. Themes found in many of the titles include death, secrecy, and living a double life, and in reading the entries you will discover just why these themes are so common. As Slide says in his introduction: “The approach of the novelist toward homosexuality may not always be a positive one… but the works are important to an understanding of contemporary attitudes toward gay men and gay society.” Lost Gay Novels will help you further your own understanding of the dynamic relationship between literature and culture, and you will finish the book with a greater appreciation of modern American gay fiction.
Author : Bayard Taylor
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Joseph and His Friend written by Bayard Taylor and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania" is an novel by American author Bayard Taylor, a prolific writer in many genres. It presented a special attachment between two men and discussed the nature and significance of such a relationship, romantic but not sexual. Critics are divided in interpreting Taylor's novel as a political argument for gay relationships or an idealization of male spirituality. The book was not well received and became the author's least successful and most disliked novel. However, in recent years it has regained popularity as America's first gay novel.
Author : Drewey Wayne Gunn
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476625220
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Gay American Novels, 1870äóñ1970 written by Drewey Wayne Gunn and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the development of gay American fiction and providing an essential reading list, this literary survey covers 257 works—novels, novellas, a graphic story cycle and a narrative poem—in which gay and bisexual male characters play a major role. Iconic works, such as James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room and Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man, are included, along with titles not given attention by earlier surveys, such as Wallace Thurman’s Infants of the Spring, Dashiel Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon, Julian Green’s Each in His Darkness, Ursula Zilinsky’s Middle Ground and David Plante’s The Ghost of Henry James. Chronological entries discuss each work’s plot, significance for gay identity, and publication history, along with a brief biography of the author.
Author : James P. Wilper
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1612494218
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German written by James P. Wilper and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German, James P. Wilper examines a key moment in the development of the modern gay novel by analyzing four novels by German, British, and American writers. Wilper studies how the texts are influenced by and respond and react to four schools of thought regarding male homosexuality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first is legal codes criminalizing sex acts between men and the religious doctrine that informs them. The second is the ancient Greek erotic philosophy, in which a revival of interest took place in the late nineteenth century. The third is sexual science (or "sexology"), which offered various medical and psychological explanations for same-sex desire and was employed variously to defend, as well as to attempt to cure, this "perversion." And fourth, in the wake of the scandal caused by his trials and conviction for "gross indecency," Oscar Wilde became associated with a homosexual stereotype based on "unmanly" behavior. Wilper analyzes the four novels—Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, E. M. Forster's Maurice, Edward Prime-Stevenson's Imre: A Memorandum, and John Henry Mackay's The Hustler—in relation to these schools of thought, and focuses on the exchange and cross-cultural influence between linguistic and cultural contexts on the subject of love and desire between men.
Author : David G. Hallman
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532002491
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Book Tales written by David G. Hallman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-09-28 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I love to read books. I love to write books. So I decided to write a book about reading books, says David G. Hallman about this collection of short stories, each of which revolves around the characters interaction with a piece of literature. Combining fiction, creative non-fiction, and semifictionalized autobiography, Hallman has crafted tales that draw readers into his characters complex lives using the lens of books such as Paul Bowless The Sheltering Sky, John Le Carrs The Constant Gardener, E. M. Forsters Maurice, Patricia Nell Warrens The Front Runner, Robertson Daviess Fifth Business, and Hallmans own memoir August Farewell. Some of the stories focus specifically on the literary work. In others, the role of the book in the plot is quite subtle. The stories are emotionally engaging and intellectually stimulating with some being sexually explicit. Each one is a dramatic exploration of the joys and heartaches, the thrills and conflicts inherent in personal and social relationships. The connecting theme of the role of books illuminates linkages between art and life. The short stories in Book Tales with their gay plots and themes depict the characters finding insight, courage, and inspiration through a variety of literary works.
Author : Joseph M. Ortiz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 179363565X
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Gordon Merrick and the Great Gay American Novel written by Joseph M. Ortiz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-05-23 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gordon Merrick and the Great Gay American Novel is the first biography of Gordon Merrick, the most commercially successful writer of gay novels in the twentieth century. This book shows how Merrick’s novels were largely based on his own life and time as a Princeton theater star, a Broadway actor, a New York reporter, an OSS spy, and the friend of countless artists and celebrities as an expatriate in France, Greece, and Sri Lanka. He lived much of his life as an openly gay man with his longtime partner, Charles Hulse. His 1970 novel, The Lord Won’t Mind, broke new ground by showing that an affirming, explicitly gay novel could be a bestseller. His subsequent gay novels were both a cultural phenomenon and a lightning rod for literary critics. This book also examines the complex, often conflicting responses to Merrick’s novels by gay readers and critics, and it thus recovers the early post-Stonewall debates over the definition of “gay literature.” By reconstructing Merrick’s life and critical fortunes, this book expands our understanding of what it means to be a gay man in the twentieth century.
Author : Leigh W. Rutledge
Publisher : Alyson Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Gay Book of Lists written by Leigh W. Rutledge and published by Alyson Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition of Rutledge's hugely popular "Gay Book of Lists" is loaded with pertinent new facts and figures to keep even the most resolute of trivia hounds happy.
Author : John Rechy
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 1555847307
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)
Download or read book Numbers written by John Rechy and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An aging male hustler wages an obsessive battle against the passing of his youth in this darkly compelling follow-up to the cult hit City of Night. Johnny Rio, a handsome narcissist no longer a pretty boy, travels to Los Angeles, the site of past sexual conquest and remembered youthful radiance, in a frenzied attempt to recreate his younger self. Like a retired boxer—an undefeated champion—who refuses to accept the possible ravages of time, Johnny is led by some unfathomable force to return to combat once again. Combat, for him, takes place in the dark balconies and dismal bathrooms of LA’s all-night movie theaters and on the hot sands of the city’s gay beaches. But these are only warm up bouts. The real test, Johnny soon learns, will be in the shaded glens of a rambling park on the outskirts of the city. Through those alcoves, as a gallery of sexhunters emerges, he sets out to discover whether the passage of time—as terrifying to the male hustler as to the dancer or ingenue—has diminished the allure that was the source of his pride. For Johnny, the final proof resides in numbers. So he sets himself a rigorous time-table—ten days—and goal: thirty “numbers” to prove is mettle. But through all the sexual episodes, the self-indulgence which comprises Johnny’s tawdry world, there resounds the universal cry of a human being’s desperate need to be loved.
Author : Richard Meeker
Publisher : Alyson Books
ISBN 13 : 9781555831165
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Better Angel written by Richard Meeker and published by Alyson Books. This book was released on 1933 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Drake
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385492286
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)
Download or read book The Gay Canon written by Robert Drake and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1998-11-10 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are countless works of interest to gay men in print right now--anthologies, novels, memoirs, and more. It is a reflection of progress that there is such an openly recognizable culture. Yet how to make sense of the choices offered? What do gay men need to read? What books have shaped the gay heart, mind, and soul? The Gay Canon gives its readers answers to these questions. Not only does it list the one hundred great gay books that have influenced writers and continue to shape the gay imagination, it also provides a deeper, more comprehensive look at the twenty-six most seminal works, each of which is followed by a series of useful group discussion questions. Reaching all the way back to Gilgamesh and continuing through classics like Leaves of Grass, Confessions of a Mask, and The Wild Boys, as well as more recent books like Borrowed Time, The Gay Canon consistently avoids impenetrable academic literary criticism in favor of a more popular introduction for general readers and book groups. The Gay Canon is a book to give to any young man just coming out, a book every gay reading group will want to rely on, and--most important--a book that will enrich and improve the gay story that continues to be written.
Author : Tom Cardamone
Publisher : Lethe Press
ISBN 13 : 097146863X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (714 download)
Download or read book The Lost Library written by Tom Cardamone and published by Lethe Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-eight modern gay authors reminisce about their favorite out of print gay novels, bringing the texts to light and telling intimate stories of their own.
Author : Richard Amory
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
ISBN 13 : 1551523175
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Song of the Loon written by Richard Amory and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “More completely than any author before him, Richard Amory explores the tormented world of love for man by man . . . a happy amalgam of James Fenimore Cooper, Jean Genet and Hudson’s Green Mansions.”—from the cover copy of the 1969 edition Published well ahead of its time, in 1966 by Greenleaf Classics, Song of the Loon is a romantic novel that tells the story of Ephraim MacIver and his travels through the wilderness. Along his journey, he meets a number of characters who share with him stories, wisdom and homosexual encounters. The most popular erotic gay book of the 1960s and 1970s, Song of the Loon was the inspiration for two sequels, a 1970 film of the same name, at least one porn movie and a parody novel called Fruit of the Loon. Unique among pulp novels of the time, the gay characters in Song of the Loon are strong and romantically drawn, which has earned the book a place in the canon of gay American literature. With an introduction by Michael Bronski, editor of Pulp Friction and author of The Pleasure Principle. Little Sister’s Classics is a new series of books from Arsenal Pulp Press, reviving lost and out-of-print gay and lesbian classic books, both fiction and nonfiction. The books in the series are produced in conjunction with Little Sister’s Book and Art Emporium, the heroic Vancouver bookstore well-known for its anti-censorship efforts.
Author : Judith A. Markowitz
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078648277X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Gay Detective Novel written by Judith A. Markowitz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gertrude Stein called it "the only really modern novel form that has come into existence," yet the mystery genre was a century old before it featured its first gay main character in a novel. Since then, gay and lesbian detective fiction has been one of the fastest growing segments of the genre. It incorporates gay and lesbian cultural elements and offers crossover appeal. Its authors call upon a century of development in the mystery genre, while providing new, more accurate images of lesbians and gay men than generally found in mainstream literature and popular media. This groundbreaking study of gay and lesbian detective fiction examines mystery series and historically significant stand-alone novels published since the early 1960s. Part I is an overview that describes how these novels make gay and lesbian life visible and forge new, powerful images. It also examines how they fit into the larger history of mystery fiction. The series analyses in Part II are grouped according to the type of main character (police officer, private investigator, amateur sleuth, etc.). Each section discusses main and secondary characters of that type, characteristic themes for the group, and more. The analyses of individual series cover main characters, themes, plot points and other elements. Comments from authors interviewed for this book play a central role in those analyses. Part III lists series-spanning themes (e.g., homophobia, the closet, gay marriage) and the novels and series that address each of those themes.
Author : Price Ray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976184454
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (844 download)
Download or read book The Gay Book written by Price Ray and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-26 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The place is the ghetto. The time is the early 1970's. Charle Book is an 11-year-old gay colored boy. His alcoholic father just found out his son is gay. He beats him viciously. His mother is ill and in a domestic violence relationship. His sister tries to protect him from his father. It is a time of desegregation, racism, bullying, and homophobia. When the neighborhood kids see Charlie they don't call him by his name, Charlie Book. They call him the Gay Book. See how his life unfolds in the span of a year. And see what true friendship and family really mean.
Author : James Levin
Publisher : Irvington Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780829010657
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Gay Novel written by James Levin and published by Irvington Pub. This book was released on 1983 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wilfrid R. Koponen
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0897893360
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (978 download)
Download or read book Embracing a Gay Identity written by Wilfrid R. Koponen and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1993-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents a psychological analysis of the process of coming out for gay men in America since 1950. Koponen looks at the process as a series of steps in a hero's journey progressing from initial denial and anger to guilt, bargaining, and depression. The stages of acceptance and integration of a gay identity represent the goal of the quest. Providing the common ground on which to analyze the coming out process, Koponen uses gay male relationships portrayed in six important American novels--Falconer by John Cheever, City of the Night by John Rechy, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, The Beautiful Room Is Empty by Edmund White, Dancer from the Dance by Andrew Holleran, and Taking Care of Mrs. Carroll by Paul Monette. This book not only is literary study, but also is intended to help gay men reflect on their shared lived experiences. Self-help exercises on identifying and examining the stages of coming out are provided throughout the analysis.
