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

• VerfasserIn: Pfeffer, Jessica R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, , Boston : : BRILL,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (146 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Table of 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.