{"id":16937,"date":"2015-06-25T01:14:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T00:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=16937"},"modified":"2015-06-25T01:15:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T00:15:46","slug":"the-recurrent-pose-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/06\/25\/the-recurrent-pose-56\/","title":{"rendered":"The recurrent pose 56"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"purdy.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/purdy.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A pair of literary poses for this increasingly sluggish series. Both these titles are gay-themed to a greater or lesser degree. James Purdy (1914\u20132009) received much praise from contemporaries while he was alive but, like Angus Wilson, he&#8217;s one of those writers&#8217; writers you don&#8217;t hear about today. Outsiders were a favourite Purdy theme, and he wrote several novels about gay characters, of which <em>Narrow Rooms<\/em> is considered something of a classic. I&#8217;ve not read it but going by descriptions the use of Flandrin&#8217;s painting on this cover from 1980 would seem a little lazy. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/12\/06\/teleny-or-the-reverse-of-the-medal\/\">This later use<\/a> on the cover of <em>Teleny<\/em> (another gay classic) at least suits the French theme. (Thanks to Sander for the tip!)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"rolfe.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/rolfe.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The second volume hasn&#8217;t been published yet but Callum James posted the cover proof on Twitter a few days ago so I hope he doesn&#8217;t mind my showing it here. The book is a collection of letters by Frederick Rolfe aka Baron Corvo. I don&#8217;t know whether this is one of Rolfe&#8217;s own photos but he enjoyed photographing naked youths so even if it isn&#8217;t his work it suits the book. Further news about the publication should be announced at <a href=\"http:\/\/callumjames.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Front Free Endpaper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-recurrent-pose-archive\/\">The recurrent pose archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of literary poses for this increasingly sluggish series. Both these titles are gay-themed to a greater or lesser degree. James Purdy (1914\u20132009) received much praise from contemporaries while he was alive but, like Angus Wilson, he&#8217;s one of those writers&#8217; writers you don&#8217;t hear about today. Outsiders were a favourite Purdy theme, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/06\/25\/the-recurrent-pose-56\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The recurrent pose 56&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,5,44,12],"tags":[771,5129,7415],"class_list":["post-16937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-gay","category-painting","category-photography","tag-callum-james","tag-frederick-rolfe","tag-james-purdy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4pb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}