Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia

Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia

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.

Camille Paglia is a Humanities and Media Studies University Professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She is the author of Glittering Visions, Break, Blow, Burn, Sexual Personae, Sex, Art, and American Culture, and Vamps & Tramps, and is a regular contributor to Salon.com.

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ISBN 13	9780679735793
ISBN 10	0679735798
Title	Sexual Personae
Author	Camille Paglia
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1991-08-20
Number of pages	736
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