From eroticism in Greece, with its plural conception, to Eros in Eastern cultures, the book “A title for Eros. Eroticism, sensuality and sexuality in Literature” (coordinated by Remedios Sánchez and published by the University of Granada in the collection “Library of Humanities. Literary theory and critics”, supervised by professor Sultana Wahnón Bensusán) deals with the subjects and authors that have concerned about this genre.
The experts who have participated with their contributions are Gregorio Morales, Mónica Ressel Giordani, Álvaro Ibáñez Chacón, Alicia Relinque Eleta, Antonio Cruz Casado, Erasmo Hernández González, José Ortega Torres, Ramón Martínez López, María Remedios Sánchez, Miguel Ángel García, Amelina Correa Ramón and Eva Velásquez Valverde. They all tackle, from different perspectives, eroticism in literature, love, sensuality, nechrophilic practices from Homer to Nono of Panopolis, eroticism in Chinese literature, fiction prose of the Golden Age, the marginal Eros in some epitaphs by Quevedo, philomania and pranks in “El jardín de Venus” by Samaniego, an analysis of the work of the Marquis de Sade, the sensual eroticism of “Pepita Jiménez”, of the yellowish saliva of the first books of poems of Ana Rossetti, and Eros and the work of Cristina Peri Rossi.
Imagination and eroticism
According to Remedios Sánchez, the person in charge of the edition, “from the different works compiled in this book we can gather that, in general, the less explicit the presence of the body is, the more present readers find it: the concept of eroticism is linked to imagination, to what is not said but suggested, to what is not directly designated, but can be felt in silence”.
Reference
Prof Sultana Wahnón Bensusán
Department of General Linguistics and Theory of Literature
Phone number. 958 246 385 / 958 246 372
E-mail. swahnon@ugr.es
