SOURCE: "Discourse and Intercourse, Design and Desire in the Erotica of Anaïs Nin," in Journal of Modern Literature, Vol. 11, No. 1, March 1984, pp. 143-58.
In the following essay, Kamboureli distinguishes between purveyors of erotica from those of pornography, attempting to establish Nin's Erotica as pornography wherein she focuses as much on poetry as on sexuality.
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