Giovanni Vitiello
Biographic Data
| ID | 4986542 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giovanni Vitiello |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giovanni |
| FAMILY NAME | Vitiello |
| SIGNATURE | VITIELLO G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Naples L’Orientale Naples Italy |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Boundaries of Obscenity
This study proposes that the transgressive mode of pornographic fiction and the moralistic mode of cautionary fiction should not to be perceived in stark mutual opposition. To this aim, it explores the simultaneous presence and ambiguous intermingling of such modes in late Ming fiction, with a focus on Feng Menglong’s 1620s collections of short-stories San yan (Three words). The essay reviews a number of their stories featuring transgressive sexu…
Writing for Print
The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature
The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature presents a global history of the field and is an unprecedented summation of critical knowledge on gay and lesbian literature that also addresses the impact of gay and lesbian literature on cognate fields such as comparative literature and postcolonial studies. Covering subjects from Sappho and the Greeks to queer modernism, diasporic literatures, and responses to the AIDS crisis, this volume is …
The Libertine's Friend
Delving into three hundred years of Chinese literature, from the mid-sixteenth century to the mid-nineteenth, The Libertine's Friend uncovers the complex and fascinating history of male homosexual and homosocial relations in the late imperial era. Drawing particularly on overlooked works of pornographic fiction, Giovanni Vitiello offers a frank exploration of the importance of same-sex love and eroticism to the evolution of masculinity in China. …
Exemplary Sodomites
This essay explores the ideological allegiances between the chivalric (xia) and the romantic (qing) in late Ming fiction and culture. Focusing on notions of friendship and love between men and their role in the formation of the late Ming romantic ideal, it also discusses the discourse on sodomy articulated in two treatises on male friendship by the Jesuit missionaries Matteo Ricci and Martino Martini, and the hypothesis of a late Ming homoerotic …
The Fantastic Journey of an Ugly Boy
Research Article| May 01 1996 The Fantastic Journey of an Ugly Boy: Homosexuality and Salvation in Late Ming Pornography Giovanni Vitiello Giovanni Vitiello Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1996) 4 (2): 291–320. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-4-2-291 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools …
The Dragon's Whim
The Fantastic Journey of an Ugly Boy
Research Article| May 01 1996 The Fantastic Journey of an Ugly Boy: Homosexuality and Salvation in Late Ming Pornography Giovanni Vitiello Giovanni Vitiello Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1996) 4 (2): 291–320. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-4-2-291 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools …
The Dragon's Whim
The Fantastic Journey of an Ugly Boy
Research Article| May 01 1996 The Fantastic Journey of an Ugly Boy: Homosexuality and Salvation in Late Ming Pornography Giovanni Vitiello Giovanni Vitiello Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1996) 4 (2): 291–320. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-4-2-291 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools …
Exemplary Sodomites
This essay explores the ideological allegiances between the chivalric (xia) and the romantic (qing) in late Ming fiction and culture. Focusing on notions of friendship and love between men and their role in the formation of the late Ming romantic ideal, it also discusses the discourse on sodomy articulated in two treatises on male friendship by the Jesuit missionaries Matteo Ricci and Martino Martini, and the hypothesis of a late Ming homoerotic …
The Libertine's Friend
Delving into three hundred years of Chinese literature, from the mid-sixteenth century to the mid-nineteenth, The Libertine's Friend uncovers the complex and fascinating history of male homosexual and homosocial relations in the late imperial era. Drawing particularly on overlooked works of pornographic fiction, Giovanni Vitiello offers a frank exploration of the importance of same-sex love and eroticism to the evolution of masculinity in China. …
The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature
The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature presents a global history of the field and is an unprecedented summation of critical knowledge on gay and lesbian literature that also addresses the impact of gay and lesbian literature on cognate fields such as comparative literature and postcolonial studies. Covering subjects from Sappho and the Greeks to queer modernism, diasporic literatures, and responses to the AIDS crisis, this volume is …
Writing for Print
The Boundaries of Obscenity
This study proposes that the transgressive mode of pornographic fiction and the moralistic mode of cautionary fiction should not to be perceived in stark mutual opposition. To this aim, it explores the simultaneous presence and ambiguous intermingling of such modes in late Ming fiction, with a focus on Feng Menglong’s 1620s collections of short-stories San yan (Three words). The essay reviews a number of their stories featuring transgressive sexu…
Art (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (5 works) · History (5 works) · Japanese History and Culture (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Homosexuality (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (3 works)