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  • Sexual Personae

  • Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
  • By: Camille Paglia
  • Narrated by: Emily Durante
  • Length: 35 hrs and 15 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (18 ratings)
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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 19th-century authors, becomes a remarkable example of Romanticism turned into Decadence.

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"'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)

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Paglia is the most remarkable intellect

How anyone can even internalise the entire Canon of Western art, let alone process it so comprehensively and then so accurately discern the underlying psychological processes giving rise to it is completely and utterly dazzling.

To then so lucidly share that stunning analysis is still more impressive.

Camille Paglia is the most remarkable intellectual I have ever had the good fortune to discover. Her appearances on YouTube are all worth seeking out and learning from.

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