Sexual Personae

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"It relentlessly pursues its ambition to assault the emotions, batter the brain and aim a kick at the groin."
Alan Bold The Times
Is Emily Dickinson "the female Sade"? Is Dona-tello'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 consei--vatives;- fatally misread human nature?Tfiis audacious and pmnivorously learnéd work of guerilla scholarship offers nothing less than a unified field theory of Western culture, high and low, since the Egyptians ujvented beauty - making a persuasive casé for^?ill art as a pagan battleground between . male and^female, form and chaos, civilisation arid ^ demonic^ature.
"Sexual Perionae [is] an enormous sensation of a book, in the better senses of'sensation'.There is not a book comparable in scope, stance, design or insight."
Harold Bloom
"A fine, dist^bing book. It seeks to attack the rea<^r-s... Tovább

Fülszöveg

YA L E
NOTA BENE


"It relentlessly pursues its ambition to assault the emotions, batter the brain and aim a kick at the groin."
Alan Bold The Times
Is Emily Dickinson "the female Sade"? Is Dona-tello'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 consei--vatives;- fatally misread human nature?Tfiis audacious and pmnivorously learnéd work of guerilla scholarship offers nothing less than a unified field theory of Western culture, high and low, since the Egyptians ujvented beauty - making a persuasive casé for^?ill art as a pagan battleground between . male and^female, form and chaos, civilisation arid ^ demonic^ature.
"Sexual Perionae [is] an enormous sensation of a book, in the better senses of'sensation'.There is not a book comparable in scope, stance, design or insight."
Harold Bloom
"A fine, dist^bing book. It seeks to attack the rea<^r-s «niÖtions as well as his/her prejudices. It : is,;v4ryilearied. Each sentence jabs like a needle." _. , i^nthony Burgess
"Provocative . A radical reappraisal of the; j human condition. Her style is marked by angry ^exhilaration, brittle epigrams and acid paradoxe^" Times^ Literary Supplement <<
Cämilie Paglia is Professor of Humanities at the Uniyersity of the Arts In Philadelphia.
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