Against Reproduction

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Against Reproduction is written by Stephen Guy-Bray and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 144264060X (ISBN 10) and 9781442640603 (ISBN 13).

Through an analysis of Renaissance texts by poets and playwrights including William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and John Milton, Guy-Bray argues that the reproductive metaphor was only one of the ways in which writers presented their own literary production. Their uses of sexual language reveal that these authors were surprisingly ambivalent about their own writing. Guy-Bray suggests that they often presented their work in such a way as to feminize themselves and to associate the writing process with shame and abjection.