Forces of the Erotic

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 IICelebrating 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 IIIPromiscuous 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