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Drewey Wayne Gunn is a professor emeritus of English at Texas AM University-Kingsville. He is the author, editor or translator of twelve previous books, including two Lambda Literary Award finalists.

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1939
Kuolinaika
2018-04-21
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male
Kansalaisuus
USA
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bibliographer
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Drewey Wayne Gunn grew up a farmboy in North Carolina. He received his B.A. from Wake Forest University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He taught for two years at Presbyterian College in Clinton, S.C. In 1968 he joined the faculty at Texas A&I University located in the heart of King Ranch country. He visited Europe for the first time in 1972 as a Fulbright teacher to Denmark. The next year he met and fell in love with Jacques Murat, a translator for Air France. He taught at the Institut Reine in Versailles and at the Université de Metz. As it became harder for Americans to hold a green card, he returned to A&I in 1977 (it became Texas A&M University–Kingsville in 1993), and he and Jacques began a long-distance marriage made bearable by the generous vacations both received and by large phone bills with AT&T. Jacques died of a heart attack in 1994, the year after he retired. Wayne retired in 2001 and was named Professor Emeritus the following year. While taking care of his mother during the last stages of her cancer, he returned to reading gay mysteries, and a whole new career was formed as he delved more deeply into his gay heritage. Two of his books were finalists for a Lambda Literary Award. Bill Parish on facebook

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Tämä arvostelu kirjoitettiin LibraryThingin Varhaisia arvostelijoita varten.
It could have been organized a little easier- I am a huge fan of authors listed alphabetically in each section- but overall this was a well researched and presented work. It serves as a reminder of how far literature has come.
 
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literatefool | 3 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Sep 3, 2018 |
Gunn continues his ground-breaking scholarship charting the contributions of gay literature to gay culture and through its pervasive influence to the broader culture by turning his attention to theatrical works with "For the Gay Stage: A Guide to a 456 Plays, Aristophanes to Peter Gill." This guide, like his others, shows academic rigor yet it is accessible, informative, thoughtful, eye-opening, and, most especially, entertaining. I highly recommend this book.

I’m an avid theatergoer typically seeing forty or more productions a year. So, I thought I knew a lot about gay theater. Well, Gunn, as he has a way of doing, opens an expansive view exploring chronologically the development of gay theater as it both reflects and pushes societal norms. Though I have seen around forty of the entries, I had never heard of the majority of the plays and I had only a passing knowledge of most of the rest. Gunn with a discerning selective eye puts these plays and their playwrights into social and historical context with an emphasis on their contributions to shaping and challenging conventional culture. Reading his summaries a reader can plot the progression of gay culture through sex, politics, identity, AIDS, relationships and most recently, marriage and domestic issues. But beyond the social scholarship, I often said to myself: I need to see or read that play, it sounds interesting and entertaining.

While I might quibble with Gunn over his descriptions of a small number of plays – in my opinion both 'Six Degrees of Separation"' and "The Nance" are dramas not comedies – these differences of opinion bring up an important distinction between works of theater and artistic endeavors in other media that Gunn had to grapple with: It is very different to experience a play in full production than to listen to a reading of it and even more different than reading a script. Gunn does an admirable job of focusing on the impact of the plays’ words and plots and not getting caught up in the vagaries of any number of productions. Gunn gives plot summaries and themes and evaluates their cultural impact.

Which brings me back to Gunn’s significant contribution: casting a spotlight on plays I knew little to nothing about and underscoring that without the efforts of Gunn and others, the lack of awareness and acknowledgement of significant works of gay literature would be a lamentable loss to the gay community and to culture at large.
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gaytheater | Oct 27, 2017 |
Tämä arvostelu kirjoitettiin LibraryThingin Varhaisia arvostelijoita varten.
Each of the entries in this book discusses one or more novels in which a gay male character plays a significant role. The book is a good reminder that LGBT characters are not a recent invention, although the way they are portrayed has varied widely, both in terms of how explicit their sexuality is and in how positive or negative (mostly negative) they have been portrayed. In earlier works, making a character homosexual was often just a method of indicating that he is untrustworthy. But there are also more in-depth reflections on what it means to be gay.
Many of the works discussed in this book were written pseudonymously, and Gunn has done a diligent job of searching out information on the authors.
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JJMcDermott | 3 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jan 21, 2017 |
Tämä arvostelu kirjoitettiin LibraryThingin Varhaisia arvostelijoita varten.
I'm an avid reader of both nonfiction and fiction LGBTQ themed books. Since most of the books I've read are contemporary I was really excited to win an Early Review Copy and expand my reading list to older titles. The only problem is now my To Read list is becoming a mile long lol This book was an interesting read, and I thought the analysis of the various books was well thought out and intriguing. If you're a fan of LGBTQ literary history I'd highly recommend checking out this book.
 
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HotWolfie | 3 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jan 17, 2017 |

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