Queer be dragons: Homosocial identity and homoerotic poetics in Robert Penn Warren's Brother to Dragons

Connaissance des Arts

Volumn , Issue 605, 2003, Pages 231-245

  Tipton, Nathan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 61249517724     PISSN: 02939274     EISSN: 12429198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Victor Strandberg, The Poetic Vision of Robert penn Warren (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1977), p. 122.
2. Lucy Ferriss, Sleeping With the Boss: Female Subjectivity and Narrative Pattern in Robert Venn Warren (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997), p. 2.
3. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), p. 186.
4. Relating the specifics of their auspicious first meeting, Thomas A. Underwood notes, "It was in [Vanderbilt English professor] Dr. [Walter Clyde] Curry's suite that Allen would meet a boy who changed his life. One February day, Allen sat in front of Curry's typewriter banging out a poem that was not turning out to his satisfaction. Sensing someone else's presence in the room, he turned around in his chair and saw the most unusual young man ever to cross his path" (Allen Tate: Orphan of the South [Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000], p. 73).
5. Joseph Blotner, Robert Penn Warren: A Biography (New York: Random House, 1997), p. 50.
6. Robert Penn Warren, Brother To Dragons: A Tale in Verse and Voices, a New Version (New York: Random House, 1979), p. xiii.
7. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Tendencies (Durham: Duke University Press, 1994), p. 9.
8. Timothy Gould, "The Unhappy Performative," Performativity and Performance, ed. Andrew Parker and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (New York: Routledge, 1995), p. 24.
9. Robert Penn Warren, Brother to Dragons: a Tale in Verse and Voices (New York: Random House, 1953), p. 16.
10. The quotation is taken from Aaron Shaheen's paper entitled "Seizing the 'Bounty of This Virtuous Tree': The Sexual Underpinnings of Jeffersonian Pastoralism in Robert Penn Warren's Brother To Dragons," (Southern Literary Journal, 34. 1, forthcoming), a draft of which he has graciously supplied to me. I am immensely grateful to him for sharing with me his astute commentaries and interpretations of Brother To Dragons.
11. Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death and Sensuality, trans. Mary Dalwood (San Francisco: City Lights, 1986), p. 145.