scholarly journals Retour sur l’hymne homérique comme proème : la pragmatique de l’hymne 6 à Aphrodite

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claude Calame
Keyword(s):  
Homeric Hymns ◽  
Erotic Desire

For the necessary anthropological return to ‘native’ categories, Thucydides (3.104) helps us for our modern understanding of the Homeric hymns. These poems in epic diction are prooimia to musical competitions. They are composed for a ritual recitation on the occasion of different cultic festivals in different cities. With the example of the second Homeric hymn consecrated to Aphrodite in our modern corpus, the study tends to show the different enunciative procedures aiming at such a ritual function, such a pragmatics through an astonishing portrait of the goddess of erotic desire. The procedure opens the possibility of re-performances of the hymnic poems in other ritual circumstances, in other cultic spaces.

On the Arrangement of the Homeric Hymns

1976 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 419-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marchinus H. A. L. H. Van der Valk
Keyword(s):  
Homeric Hymns

Textual Events

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Homeric Hymns ◽  
The World ◽  
Real Performance ◽  
Textual Traditions ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Ritual Practices ◽  
Formal Features

Recent decades have seen a major expansion in our understanding of how early Greek lyric functioned in its social, political, and ritual contexts. The fundamental role song played in the day-to-day lives of communities, groups, and individuals has been the object of intense study. This volume places its focus elsewhere, and attempts to illuminate poetic effects that cannot be captured in functional terms. Employing a range of interpretative methods, it explores the idea of lyric performances as textual events. Several chapters investigate the pragmatic relationship between real performance contexts and imaginative settings. Others consider how lyric poems position themselves in relation to earlier texts and textual traditions, or discuss the distinctive encounters lyric poems create between listeners, authors, and performers. In addition to studies that analyse individual lyric texts and lyric authors (Sappho, Alcaeus, Pindar), the volume includes treatments of the relationship between lyric and the Homeric Hymns. Building on the renewed concern with the aesthetic in the study of Greek lyric and beyond, Textual Events re-examines the relationship between the poems’ formal features and their historical contexts. Lyric poems are a type of sociopolitical discourse, but they are also objects of attention in themselves. They enable reflection on social and ritual practices as much as they are embedded within them. As well as enacting cultural norms, lyric challenges listeners to think about and experience the world afresh.

scholarly journals The role of the illusion in the construction of erotic desire: narratives from heterosexual men who have occasional sex with transgender women

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 951-963 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathy J. Reback ◽  
Rachel L. Kaplan ◽  
Talia M. Bettcher ◽  
Sherry Larkins
Keyword(s):  
Transgender Women ◽  
Heterosexual Men ◽  
Erotic Desire

Female erotic desire

Human Affairs ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 240-252
Author(s):  
Tereza Škubalová
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Research Participant ◽  
Interpretive Methods ◽  
Dominant Discourses ◽  
Psychodynamic Understanding ◽  
Erotic Desire

Abstract This paper explores the epistemology and methodology for describing sexual/erotic desire in women. Culture provides a variety of discourses which create possibilities for individual agents to think, experience and act. This paper outlines the dominant discourses of sexuality. The main focus is on the emerging psychodynamic understanding of erotic desire as a cultivated way of experiencing and expressing intersubjective embodied desire. The story of a female research participant has been selected to illustrate the journey from undifferentiated physical and mental experiences of desire to the peculiar integration of both aspects in her lived experience. A combination of interpretive methods is employed.

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