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Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

By Camille Paglia

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0300091273, 9780300091274
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
40 MB (41426531 bytes)
Series
Yale Nota Bene
Pages
736\735
Time added
2015-01-28 15:55:46

Description

Is Emily Dickinson "the female Sade"? Is Donatello's David a bit of paedophile pornography? What is the secret kinship between Byron and Elvis Presley, between the Medusa and Madonna? How do liberals and feminists - as well as conservatives - fatally misread human nature? This audacious and omnivorously learned work of guerilla scholarship offers nothing less than a unified-field theory of Western culture, high and low, since the Egyptians invented beauty - making a persuasive case for all art as a pagan battleground between male and female, form and chaos, civilisation and demonic nature.

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