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...KISS SACRED AND PROFANE by Nicolas James Perella. 356 pages. University of California Press...
Before a reader gets too cozy with Professor Perella's explication of the religio-erotic kiss symbolism in Western culture, it should be noted that not everyone has found mutual labial stimulation appealing. To the Chinese, for example, kissing had revolting associations with cannibalism. Even Dr. Freud seemed standoffish when he observed in his essay, "The Sexual Aberrations," that the lips are composed of mucous membrane and constitute the entrance to the digestive tract...
...resignation was tendered by Nicholas J. Perella 4G, a Teaching Fellow who was recently appointed instructor in the Department beginning in the Fall. Shortly after he was appointed, Perella resigned from the University to accept an offer to teach at the University of California. Perella will receive his Ph.D. at Commencement next week...
...Perella was a good friend of Singleton and was an assistant in his Humanities 116 course in "The Literature of the Renaissance." Perella could not be reached for comment on his resignation...
...department will be partly filled by new appointments. Yale professor Erich Auerbach, author of Mimesis, has been appointed a visiting professor to teach Singleton's former course, Italian 120, "Dante's Divina Comedia." A specialist in Renaissance literature from Columbia has been named to the instructorship vacated by Perella...