LEADER 05762nam 2200805Ia 450 001 9910453133703321 005 20210810214424.0 010 $a0-300-18213-9 010 $a1-283-95016-2 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300182132 035 $a(CKB)2550000000996558 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH25000283 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001073511 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11695439 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001073511 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11164958 035 $a(PQKB)10323438 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3421116 035 $a(DE-B1597)485927 035 $a(OCoLC)843053658 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300182132 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3421116 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10645471 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL426266 035 $a(OCoLC)923602033 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000996558 100 $a19900806d1990 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSexual personae$b[electronic resource] $iArt and decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson /$fCamille Paglia 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc1990 215 $a1 online resource (712 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-04396-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tList Of Illustrations --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tChapter I. Sex And Violence, Or Nature And Art --$tChapter 2. The Birth Of The Western Eye --$tChapter 3. Apollo And Dionysus --$tChapter 4. Pagan Beauty --$tChapter 5. Renaissance Form: Italian Art --$tChapter 6. Spenser And Apollo: The Faerie Queene --$tChapter 7. Shakespeare And Dionysus: As You Like It And Antony And Cleopatra --$tChapter 8. Return Of The Great Mother: Rousseau Vs. Sade --$tChapter 9. Amazons, Mothers, Ghosts: Goethe To Gothic --$tChapter 10. Sex Bound And Unbound: Blake --$tChapter 11. Marriage To Mother Nature: Wordsworth --$tChapter 12. The Daemon As Lesbian Vampire: Coleridge --$tChapter 13. Speed And Space: Byron --$tChapter 14. Light And Heat: Shelley And Keats --$tChapter 15. Cults Of Sex And Beauty: Balzac --$tChapter 16. Cults Of Sex And Beauty: Gautier, Baudelaire, And Huysmans --$tChapter 17. Romantic Shadows: Emily Bronte --$tChapter 18. Romantic Shadows: Swinburne And Pater --$tChapter 19. Apollo Daemonized: Decadent Art --$tChapter 20. The Beautiful Boy As Destroyer: Wilde's The Picture Of Dorian Gray --$tChapter 21. The English Epicene: Wilde's The Importance Of Being Earnest --$tChapter 22. American Decadents: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville --$tChapter 23. American Decadents: Emerson, Whitman, James --$tChapter 24. Amherst's Madame De Sade: Emily Dickinson --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aIn 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. Paglia offers provocative views of literature, art history, psychology, and religion. She focuses, for example, on the amorality, voyeurism, and pornography in great art that have been ignored or glossed over by most critics. She discusses sex and nature as brutal daemonic forces, and she criticizes feminists for sentimentality or wishful thinking about the causes of rape, violence, and poor relations between the sexes. She stressed the biologic basis of sex differences and sees the mother as an overwhelming force who condemns men to lifelong sexual anxiety, from which they escape through rationalism and physical achievement. She examines the culture and style of modern male homosexuals. She demonstrates how much of western life, art, and thought is ruled by personality, which she traces through recurrent types or personae such as the female vampire (Medusa, Lauren Bacall); the pythoness (the Dephic oracle, Gracie Allen); the beautiful boy (Hadrian's Antinous, Dorian Gray); the epicene man of beauty (Lord Byron, Elvis Presley); and the male heroine (Baudelaire, Woody Allen). 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