Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)

by C Paglia (Author)

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2001
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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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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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Format: Paperback
Pages: 736
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 03 Sep 2001
ISBN 10: 0300091273
ISBN 13: 9780300091274

Media Reviews

Sexual Personae is an enormous sensation of a book, in all the better senses of 'sensation'. There is no book comparable in scope, stance, design or insight. Harold Bloom A fine, disturbing book. It seeks to attack the reader's emotions as well as his/her prejudices. It is very learned. Each sentence jabs like a needle. Anthony Burgess It relentlessly pursues its ambition to assault the emotions, batter the brain and aim a kick at the groin. Alan Bold, The Times Provocative... a radical reappraisal of the human condition. Her style is marked by angry exhiliration, brittle epigrams and acid paradoxes. Times Literary Supplement