Desire, Performance, and Classification: Critical Perspectives on the Erotic / Jessica R. Pfeffer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pfeffer, Jessica R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Erotica.

Sex.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (146 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2013. In November 2011, artists, professors, students, and scholars from around the world gathered in Prague, Czech Republic, to attempt to define what could be considered the erotic. The conference sought submissions that addressed interactions of the erotic with history, art, literature, practices, performances, pedagogy, and sexuality, among many others. This wide focus brought together an intellectually rich meeting that interrogated the boundaries between eroticism, sex, and desire. This volume represents a sampling of papers presented at the conference, and the diverse focuses within these papers are indicative of the inter- and trans-disciplinary work that was presented. Each work within this collection brings a fresh and unique approach to the erotic and, in its own way, tries to answer the question, 'What is erotic?'

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Jessica R. Pfeffer

Critical Perspectives on the Erotic: An Introduction / Jessica R. Pfeffer

Teaching the Art of Erotics / Michael Strawser

Harnessing Desire in the Erotically-Charged University Classroom / Cameron Fraser and Davida Garvin

Erotic of the Extreme, a Philosophical Perspective: Foucault’s Understanding of BDSM / Alba Nabulsi

Transgression, Excess and the Sacred: Bataille’s Erotic in Sade / Melissa M. Russell

A Violation Bordering on Death: Erotic Excess and Ritual Sacrifice in Bataille, Genet and Mishima / Eva Bujalka

Gendered Speech and Erotic Identity in Aristophanes’ The Women’s Assembly / Alexandra Neagu

Circulating Desire, Shifting Bodies: The Transsexual Eroticism of Middleton and Dekker’s The Roaring Girl / Jessica R. Pfeffer

Eighteenth-Century Eroticism between Sermons and Striptease: Pamela, the Pretty Teacher / Caroline Lafitte

Orientalism, Gender and Sexuality: Questions of Representation of the Geisha Figure / Christina Skotadi

‘Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent’: The Erotic / Alexandra Ai Quintas

Mainstream, Alternative and Amateur: Brief Notes on Categories of Classification of Online Pornography / Carolina Parreiras

Is Post-Pornographic the New Erotic? A Case-Study / Fernando Cascais

Exotic Same Sex Acts between Men: Eroticism in a Public Park in North Italy / Stefano Ramello.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-84888-120-7

OCLC:

842130176

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848881204 DOI