Transuming Passion: Ganymede and the Erotics of Humanism [Hardcover]

Leonard Barkan (Author)

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“A major contribution to homoerotic intellectual history and to the interpretation of art and literature of the Humanist period.”—Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance

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“A major contribution to homoerotic intellectual history and to the interpretation of art and literature of the Humanist period.”—Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance

Product Details

• Hardcover: 164 pages
• Publisher: Stanford University Press; 1 edition (March 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0804718512
• ISBN-13: 978-0804718516
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,721,397 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Leonard Barkan is the Class of 1943 University Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton. He has been a professor of English and of Art History at universities including Northwestern, Michigan, and N.Y.U. Among his books are The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis and the Pursuit of Paganism (Yale, 1986) and Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture (Yale, 1999), which won prizes from the Modern Language Association, the College Art Association, the American Comparative Literature Association, the Pen American Center, and Phi Beta Kappa. He is the winner of the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has been an actor and a director; he is also a regular contributor to publications in both the U.S. and Italy on the subject of food and wine. He is the author of Satyr Square (Farrar, Straus, 2006; pbk. Northwestern, 2008), which is an account of art, literature, food, wine, Italy, and himself; and he has completed Michelangelo: A Life on Paper, the first wide-ranging study of the artist's habit of writing words on his drawings, which will be published by Princeton University Press in 2010.

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4.0 out of 5 stars recommendable book, April 14, 2000

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This review is from: Transuming Passion: Ganymede and the Erotics of Humanism (Hardcover)

It is interesting to read this kind of book.The book's thesis is that the Renaissance defined humanism in homoerotic=Knabenliebe terms.If there were more illustrations, it would be better and more interesting volume.