El tratamiento de la temática homosexual en cuatro novelistas ingleses : Lawrence, Foster, Waugh y Storey (1914-1963)

Abstract

Modernism imbued the English novelists of the first half of the 20th century with a sense of freedom in the themes and in the forms, putting an end to the stagnant narrative which had preceded them. However, social and religious repression affected these writers to the extent that certain themes were still prohibited and were only tackled with extreme care to maintain a delicate balance between their freedom and the norms of their society. In recent decades, intertextuality has attempted to analyse the literary contribution of some of these writers with reference to other texts and, in the most extreme cases, by avoiding any reference to their social background. In this article we aim to reconcile both views by offering a study of a controversial subject, male homosexuality, in the narrative of four English novelists of the 20th century (Lawrence, Forster, Waugh and Storey), which requires both an analysis of the humanistic relations among the texts and a direct reference to the society in which they were created.