Ebook: Sexual personae : art and decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
Author: Paglia Camille
- Tags: Decadence in art. Decadence in literature.
- Series: Yale Nota Bene
- Year: 2001
- Publisher: Yale Nota Bene
- City: London, New Haven
- Language: English
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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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