期刊名称：International Journal of Social Sciences and Education
印刷版ISSN：2227-393X
电子版ISSN：2223-4934
出版年度：2014
卷号：4
期号：4
出版社：Federal College of Education
摘要：This paper aims to explore the homosocial relationships and associations that the major character of the novel,David Lurie has with the males that he encounters. David Lurie is a fifty-two-year-old twice-divorced universityprofessor of English who seems to have lost his connections with both interior and exterior worlds. He has beenaccustomed to taking advantage of prostitutes and other females in order to gratify his sexual desire, culminating inhis sexual encounter with his female student, Melanie that has him fired from the university. He does not have anyclose dealings with any male person, despite the fact that there are those who are supposedly his friends and otherswho even confide in him, and this perplexes him. This paper will endeavor to indicate his bonds in five variedsituations with: 1) his male colleagues in trial, 2) the most significant one with Melanie’s boyfriend, Ryan, who alongwith Melanie and David Lurie himself form a love triangle in an urban setting, 3) Melanie’s Father, Mr. Isaac, 4)Bill Shaw, who calls Lurie his friend and finally, 5) Petrus who works for his daughter in the rural setting. In order toachieve the goal of this study, this paper will discuss Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Between Men: English literature andMale Homosocial Desire, a significant book that popularized the concept of Homosociality. In her book, Sedgwickintroduced for the first time in sociology and literature, the love triangle and its relationship with, influence on andimportance to the protagonist
关键词：Homosociality; Homosocial desire; Love Triangle; Male-Male Relationships
