Kirtley, Susan. “What’s Love Got to Do with It?A Way to Move:

Kirtley, Susan. “What’s Love Got to Do with It? Eros in the Writing Classroom” .” A Way to Move: Rhetorics of Emotion and Composition Studies. Eds. Dale Jacobs & Laura R. Micciche. Boyton/CooK: Portsmouth, NH.

“It was thus early on that ‘heart knowledge’ was linked with ‘the body, emotions, women’ as well as the vernacular or common language, and therefore devalued, hidden, and concealed” (58).

“Writing feels to me like an attempt to make an association. The power of composition resides in thie ‘space between.’ Though the author may be long gone, once a link is fashioned with a reader, immortality is indeed achieved” (65).

“There is an intimate, alluring element in the composing process—isn’t writing an attempt to seduce readers, to entice them to see and feel the world as you wish them to? The writer issues an invitation and reaches out to the reader, much as the lover beckons to the beloved” (65). =A & E
My thoughts exactly.

“the joy of writing is not only in the product, but in the process as well, in the act of crafting language” (65). =A & E

“For me the erotic writing class is about an embodied, intellectual passion that bridges gaps as a daimon might (65). =B