The variety of meanings that comprise the
erotic experience of women is loosely organized by Shomer into three sections.
These are the very questions motivating black queer Barbadian American anthropologist Jafari Allen's conceptualization and hermeneutic deployment of a "politics of
erotic transcendence" in his lyrical ethnography !Venceremos?
Cylinder seals small cylinder-shaped stones etched with figures and cuneiform used as a signet occasionally featured men and women in
erotic poses.
With The
Erotics of Sovereignty, Mark Rifkin, who is fast becoming one of the foremost scholars in queer Native studies, puts out his third monograph and his second that engages the texts and theories of Two-Spirit literatures.
Ironically, one of the books being discussed is In Too Deep, the story of a young librarian who finds increasingly
erotic love notes to her in the suggestion box at work.
Although Dreyfus claims to be doing something new by exploring Wagner's
erotics (a topic that will necessarily place Tristan in the forefront), he neglects to take note of two important predecessors in the musicological literature that deal with Tristan, the
erotic, and Schopenhauer: Roger Sermon's Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and Sacred in Wagner's "'Tristan and Isolde" (Oxford University Press, 2003) and Eric Chafe's The Tragic and the Ecstatic: The Musical Revolution of Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" (Oxford University Press, 2005).
In the first chapter, "Echoes," Dreyfus lays the groundwork for his study of Wagner's musical
erotics. He expresses frustration with the idea that
erotic experiences may have changed too much for scholars to draw reliable conclusions about the representation of sex at different points in history (an idea he attributes to Jeffrey Kallberg's article on sexuality in New Grove).
This book offers a kaleidoscopic view of the vast Italian Renaissance
erotic world: as with the famous cylinder, one can rotate the book and see history of art, culture and literature mix together in a captivating multicolored fresco.
Erotic triangles is a brave, surprising, and thought-provoking addition to the ethnographic literature on Southeast Asian performing arts.
Renowned works of Bulgarian poets and writers, which contain strong
erotic elements have also been cited in the book.
But just for fun, poets are invited to perform
erotic, lusty, lascivious, luscious and romantic poems, a news release says.
He decided to write a book instead which would feature photographs of his collection of
erotic objects, with notes by the doctor- turned- author.
Award-winning publisher Hazel Cushion thinks so and hopes to fill what she believes is a gap in the market with new
erotic titles from her company, Accent Press.
Because it's live--because its essence is the interaction of the actor's body and the spectator's consciousness--theatre is potentially the most
erotic of the arts.