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Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia
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Sexual Personae

Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

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Narrator Emily Durante

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Length 35 hours 14 minutes
Language English
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Summary

In this brilliantly original book, Camille Paglia identifies some of the major patterns that have endured in western culture from ancient Egypt and Greece to the present. According to Paglia, one source of continuity is paganism, which, undefeated by Judeo-Christianity, continues to flourish in art, eroticism, astrology, and pop culture. Others, she says, are androgyny, sadism, and the aggressive western eye, which has created our art and cinema. Paglia follows these and other themes, from Nefertiti and the Venus of Willendorf to Apollo and Dionysus, from Botticelli and Michaelangelo to Shakespeare and Blake and finally to Emily Dickinson, who, along with other major nineteenth-century authors, becomes a remarkable example of Romanticism turned into Decadence.

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Author:

Narrator:
Emily Durante

ISBN:
9781541483064

Length:
35 hours 14 minutes

Language:
English

Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc

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Edition:
Unabridged

Libro.fm rank:
#45,376 Overall

Genre rank:
#301 in Literary Criticism

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