erotics

And not only is Van Oort's definition of interpretation itself -- "searching for symbolic significance" -- the sort of thing that has always struck fear in the freshman literature student, but it is precisely the orientation to reading and to the formal study of literature that Susan Sontag had in mind when she wrote "against interpretation" and called for a new "erotics" of art, including literature.

Literary Study 2009

Of course, I would not claim that something like Sontag's notion of an "erotics" of reading -- an unmediated or aesthetically pure experience of a work of literature -- could be the basis of academic literary study in any sustained way commensurate with the requirements of disciplinary scholarship, if at all.

Literary Study 2009

Frankly, all his talk about falafel and artistry--of an "erotics" of falafel--had me a little distracted.

Archive 2009-04-01 2009

Frankly, all his talk about falafel and artistry -- of an "erotics" of falafel -- had me a little distracted.

...an endless banquet aj kinik 2009

It seems too obvious to contrast a non-erotic friendship between a man and a woman with a friendship between two women (and every friendship has its own erotics).

Anis Shivani: Poetry As a Bridge Across Cultures: Anis Shivani Interviews Marilyn Hacker Anis Shivani 2010

It seems too obvious to contrast a non-erotic friendship between a man and a woman with a friendship between two women (and every friendship has its own erotics).

Anis Shivani: Poetry As a Bridge Across Cultures: Anis Shivani Interviews Marilyn Hacker Anis Shivani 2010

It seems too obvious to contrast a non-erotic friendship between a man and a woman with a friendship between two women (and every friendship has its own erotics).

Anis Shivani: Poetry As a Bridge Across Cultures: Anis Shivani Interviews Marilyn Hacker Anis Shivani 2010

As well as erotics, Tóibín can do wit when he wants to.

The Empty Family by Colm Tóibín – Review Hermione Lee 2010

It seems too obvious to contrast a non-erotic friendship between a man and a woman with a friendship between two women (and every friendship has its own erotics).

Anis Shivani: Poetry As a Bridge Across Cultures: Anis Shivani Interviews Marilyn Hacker Anis Shivani 2010

It seems too obvious to contrast a non-erotic friendship between a man and a woman with a friendship between two women (and every friendship has its own erotics).

Anis Shivani: Poetry As a Bridge Across Cultures: Anis Shivani Interviews Marilyn Hacker Anis Shivani 2010