Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Ben Ambler , Ana Dosen and Kristina Kocan Salamon -- Decoding Desire in Contemporary Erotic Poetry: From Love to Pornography / Kristina Kocan Salamon -- A Comrade or a Mistress? Translations of Robert Burns’s Erotic Poetry in the Soviet Union / Natalia Kaloh Vid -- Mithuna: The Erotic Symbol of Divine Biunity with Reference to the Imagery of Shiva and Shakti in Indian Art / Soumya Manjunath Chavan -- Codependence as a Symbiosis: Focusing on Sexual Relationships / Mariko Konishi -- Discursive Transgression and Waste of Meaning in Georges Bataille’s The Story of the Eye / Philip Stoilov -- The Erotic Capital Onstage / Josep Martí -- Of Folkloric Eroticism in the Algerian Raï / Sabrina Zerar -- ‘Intimate with Monsters’: Mary Shelley’s Dark Desires in Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl / Doreen Bauschke -- The Erotic, Ethics and Philosophy: Fantasy and the Other in Frisk / Matthew James Bowes-Graham -- Rediscovering National Identity through the Erotic: Incestual and Orgiastic in Imamura and Miike / Ana Dosen -- Lost and Found: An Exploration of the Functioning of Hermaphroditism within Erotic Discourse / Michael Handrick -- Habitus and the Erotic in Last Tango in Paris and Cleansed / David Hammerbeck -- Sexuality as a Temporary Identity of Female Characters in Video Games / Adam Flamma -- Sexing the Past: Venus, the Erotic and History as a Lens for Inter-Cultural and Inter-Historical Interaction / Dena Gilby -- The Obliterated Image: Fetishism and the Erotic in Relation to the Gaze in Photographic Practice / Fagner Bibiano -- Exploring the Erotic in Asian, African-American and Irish Women’s Writing: the Rhetoric of Satire / Melania Terrazas Gallego -- Seductive Music in the Novel of Adultery: Erotic Melodies in The Kreutzer Sonata and The Awakening / Aina Martí.