by Yuchen Zhang, MA in Comparative Literature 2021/22 This blogpost offers a glimpse into a seminar of the MA module 7ABA0016 Queer Connections: Male-Male Desire and the Classical Past. For more information about this module, please visit: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/abroad/module-options/queer-connections-male-male-desire-and-the-classical-past Gustav von Aschenbach is an established writer with an established public persona. Well into his fifties, he …