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Sexual Personae : Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia (1991, Trade Paperback)

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Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson by Paglia, Camille [Paperback]

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The fiery, provocative, and unparalleled work of feminist art criticism that launched the exceptional career of one of our most important public intellectuals--"a remarkable book, at once outrageous and compelling, fanatical and brilliant.... One must be awed by [Paglia's] vast energy, erudition and wit" ( The Washington Post). Is Emily Dickinson "the female Sade"? Is Donatello's David a bit of pedophile pornography? What is the secret kinship between Byron and Elvis Presley, between Medusa and Madonna? How do liberals and feminists--as well as conservatives--fatally misread human nature? This audacious and omnivorously learned work of guerrilla scholarship offers nothing less than a unified-field theory of Western culture, high and low, since Egyptians invented beauty--making a persuasive case for all art as a pagan battleground between male and female, form and chaos, civilization and daemonic nature. With 47 photographs.

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679735798
ISBN-13
9780679735793
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
Sexual Personae : Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
Author
Camille Paglia
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Modern / 20th Century, Gender Studies, General, Modern / 19th Century, Aesthetics, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year
1991
Genre
Literary Criticism, Social Science, Philosophy
Number of Pages
736 Pages

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8in
Item Height
1.5in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
24.2 Oz

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"A remarkable book, at once outrageous and compelling, fanatical and brilliant....One must be awed by [Paglia's] vast energy, erudition and wit"--Washington Post Book World
Table of Content
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Sex and Violence, or Nature and Art Chapter 2 The Birth of the Western Eye Chapter 3 Apollo and Dionysus Chapter 4 Pagan Beauty Chapter 5 Renaissance Form: Italian Art Chapter 6 Spenser and Apollo: The Faerie Queene Chapter 7 Shakespeare and Dionysus: As You Like It and Antony and Cleopatra Chapter 8 Return of the Great Mother: Rousseau vs. Sade Chapter 9 Amazons, Mothers, Ghosts: Goethe to Gothic Chapter 10 Sex Bound and Unbound: Blake Chapter 11 Marriage to Mother Nature: Wordsworth Chapter 12 The Daemon as Lesbian Vampire: Coleridge Chapter 13 Speed and Space: Byron Chapter 14 Light and Heat: Shelley and Keats Chapter 15 Cults of Sex and Beauty: Balzac Chapter 16 Cults of Sex and Beauty: Gautier, Baudelaire, and Huysmans Chapter 17 Romantic Shadows: Emily Bronte Chapter 18 Romantic Shadows: Swinburne and Pater Chapter 19 Apollo Daemonized: Decadent Art Chapter 20 The Beautiful Boy as Destroyer: Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray Chapter 21 The English Epicene: Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest Chapter 22 American Decadents: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville Chapter 23 American Decadents: Emerson, Whitman, James Chapter 24 Amherst's Madame de Sade: Emily Dickinson Notes Index
Copyright Date
1991
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
91-050024
Dewey Decimal
704.9/428
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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