From ancient Greece to contemporary cultures, people have strived to make visible -- - either explicitly or implicitly - their constructions of the erotic. The papers in this volume explore the myriad ways in which individuals and societies have created a notion of what constitutes the erotic. The articles chart the transgressive, transformative and voluptuous forces of the erotic by sampling literature, music, philosophy, theatre, and the visual arts. In the first section, the erotic is (re)defined through the lens of philosophy and posited as a passion of reason, a means to dream differently, as coitus, ergo sum and habitus interruptus. In the second section, the voluptuousness of the erotic, which some wish to censor, is analysed through and in photography, music and poetry. The final section examines the promiscuous minglings of the erotic that transgress time, media, and species.
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Doreen Bauschke earned a PhD in American literature in 2013 with the dissertation titled Quilt(ed) Texts: The Patchwork Quilt in Contemporary North American Novels at the Friedrich Schiller Universitat in Jena, Germany. She has taught seminars on intertextuality and hyperfiction. Additionally, she is interested in gender studies, early American drama, Gothic literature and media-specific analysis in literature. Dena Gilby is the Walter J. Manninen Endowed Chair of Art History at Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts. Her currently scholarly work includes examinations of the use of Greek vases by Iberians, psychological aspects of the paintings of John Vanderlyn, and the pedagogical possibilities of role-play in the undergraduate Art History survey class.
Introduction Doreen Bauschke and Dena Gilby Part I (Re)Defining and Revising the Erotic in and through Philosophy Platonic Love as a Passion of Reason: Reconstructing the Erotic in Plato's The Symposium and Phaedrus Rekha Navneet The Ethics of Violent Desire: Actualising Fantasy and Daring to Dream Differently in Dennis Cooper's Frisk Matthew Bowes-Graham The Embodied Object of Erotic Love: Sartre and Sexual Desire Gary Foster Another Space: Constructing the Erotic in Last Tango in Paris, Fire and Cleansed David Hammerbeck Part II Celebrating or Censoring the Carnality of the Erotic Framing Fantasies: Fetishism and Erotic Perversions in Relation to the Gaze in Photographic Practice Fagner Bibiano On the Nature and Function of Eroticism in Rai Music Sabrina Zerar Translating Love and the Erotic in the Soviet Union: The Case of Robert Burns' Poetry Natalia Kaloh Vid Part III Promiscuous Minglings: Breaking the Bounds of Time, Medium and Species Fleshing out Mary Shelley's Monstrous Pleasures: Erotic Incarnations and Incorporations in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl Doreen Bauschke Strange Erotic Encounters: Speculative Fiction and the Trope of Bestiality Evelyn Tsitas Permutations of the Erotic: Greek Sculpture, Jim Logan's Classical Aboriginal Series and Comprehensive Art History Survey Textbooks Dena Gilby
