PanEroticism / edited by Ben Ambler, Ana Dosen and Kristina Kocan Salamon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ambler, Ben, editor.

Došen, Ana, editor.

Salamon, Kristina Kocan, editor.

Series:

Critical Issues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Miscellanea.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Inter-Disciplinary Press, [2015]

Summary:

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2015. PanEroticism asks the question, just what does it mean for something to be erotic ? Located only momentarily between perceiver and perceived, any definition of eros is necessarily relative and contingent, personal and ephemeral. In trodding and charting the erotic's manifold corners and planes, bodies and members, surfaces and firmaments, the chapters within this volume reveal the polysemy of eros. They examine the erotic potential not only in bodies and practices but in music and voices, objects and spaces, sights and textures, words and ideas. Through divergent meditations, all carry the reader to the same place of wonder, totality, uncertainty and, dare one say, arousal. As your own critical valences carry you through the pages of this compilation, we invite you to reflect upon the implications herein for the erotic in your research and writing, your practice and play. What, in other words, arouses you?

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Ben Ambler , Ana Dosen and Kristina Kocan Salamon

Decoding Desire in Contemporary Erotic Poetry: From Love to Pornography / Kristina Kocan Salamon

A Comrade or a Mistress? Translations of Robert Burns’s Erotic Poetry in the Soviet Union / Natalia Kaloh Vid

Mithuna: The Erotic Symbol of Divine Biunity with Reference to the Imagery of Shiva and Shakti in Indian Art / Soumya Manjunath Chavan

Codependence as a Symbiosis: Focusing on Sexual Relationships / Mariko Konishi

Discursive Transgression and Waste of Meaning in Georges Bataille’s The Story of the Eye / Philip Stoilov

The Erotic Capital Onstage / Josep Martí

Of Folkloric Eroticism in the Algerian Raï / Sabrina Zerar

‘Intimate with Monsters’: Mary Shelley’s Dark Desires in Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl / Doreen Bauschke

The Erotic, Ethics and Philosophy: Fantasy and the Other in Frisk / Matthew James Bowes-Graham

Rediscovering National Identity through the Erotic: Incestual and Orgiastic in Imamura and Miike / Ana Dosen

Lost and Found: An Exploration of the Functioning of Hermaphroditism within Erotic Discourse / Michael Handrick

Habitus and the Erotic in Last Tango in Paris and Cleansed / David Hammerbeck

Sexuality as a Temporary Identity of Female Characters in Video Games / Adam Flamma

Sexing the Past: Venus, the Erotic and History as a Lens for Inter-Cultural and Inter-Historical Interaction / Dena Gilby

The Obliterated Image: Fetishism and the Erotic in Relation to the Gaze in Photographic Practice / Fagner Bibiano

Exploring the Erotic in Asian, African-American and Irish Women’s Writing: the Rhetoric of Satire / Melania Terrazas Gallego

Seductive Music in the Novel of Adultery: Erotic Melodies in The Kreutzer Sonata and The Awakening / Aina Martí.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-301-3

OCLC:

1096224628

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848883017 DOI