The second section, "The Ordinary Day Begins," places the
erotic in the context of other daily concerns, domestic life, and long-term relationships.
Allen uses the term "
erotic subjectivity" to give language to what he describes as "deeper understandings and compulsions of the body and soul ...
Ancient Mesopotamian texts were so graphic in their detailing of the
erotic arts that "you can really reenact the actions what they did between the sheets according to the descriptions," Peri explained when we met at her office in The Israel Museum.
In a hallmark of queer Native studies, Rifkin melds discussions of sovereignty and sexuality, arguing that these texts' configurations of indigenous nationhood can be read through the lens of affect and, particularly, through Raymond Williams's concept of a "structure of feeling." As one such affective structure, the "embodied sensations and sensitivities" of
erotics provide "a different perspective on--a new metaphor for--practices and histories of peoplehood" (34).
"I was doing some market research and couldn't find
erotic books for women and couples to read," she explains.
Still, the chapter coheres more than its predecessors and provides an interesting investigation of his compositional approach to the
erotic. However, it is chapter 4, "Pathologies," that serves as the centerpiece of the book.
Dreyfus's position vis-a-vis the historicality of the
erotic might have been more convincing had he acknowledged that musicologists have indeed grappled with sexuality and the representation of sex in musical literature of the nineteenth century and beyond, as a perusal of Kallberg's bibliography would have shown.
The introduction also offers a useful summary of the contents of the volume, which "has its origin in a selection of papers on the
erotic cultures of the Italian Renaissance presented in panels organized by Sara Matthews-Grieco for the Renaissance Society of America annual meeting held in Cambridge, England in 2005" (4).
While
Erotic triangles claims to be about Sundanese dance, Spiller's entry point into his fieldwork was through the West Javanese music tradition of kendang drumming.
An two-volume edition entitled "The Bulgarian
Erotics Encyclopedia" was officially presented in the historical museum in the city of Ruse on Thursday.
The collection of
erotic art objects itself is interesting to the core.
Merthyr-based Hazel, who writes titillating tales herself under the pen name Miranda Forbes, says: "I started Xcite Books last year because I felt there was a gap in the market for quality
erotic fiction for women.