Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

by Camille Paglia Narrated by Emily Durante

Overview

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.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"'Pagan' in its own pictorialism, sprawl, and unstopped prose, [Paglia's] unusual book creates its brilliant effect from an explosive fusing of scholarship and theater." ---Kirkus Starred Review

From the Publisher - AUDIO COMMENTARY

"'Pagan' in its own pictorialism, sprawl, and unstopped prose, [Paglia's] unusual book creates its brilliant effect from an explosive fusing of scholarship and theater." —Kirkus Starred Review

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170983674
Publisher:	Tantor Audio
Publication date:	11/07/2017
Edition description:	Unabridged
Sales rank:	937,644

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