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ART
AND
DECADENCE
FROM
N
EFERTITI
TO
EMILY
DICKINSON
CAM
LLE
PAG
LI
A
I
"A
REMARKABLE
BOOK,
AT
ONCE
OUTRAGEOUS
AND
COMPELLING,
FANATICAL
AND
B
R
L
L
A
N
T.
O
N
E
MUST
BE
AWED
BY
[PAGLIA'S]
VAST
ENERGY,
ERUDITION
AND
W
T
"
— W
A
S
H N
G
TO
N
POST
BOOK
WORLD
I
I
.
.
I
.
I
1970
Jackson
8t
San
Francisco,
CA
94100
L
CAMILLE
PAGLIA'S
Sexual
Personae
"Surging
with
startling
ideas
...
in
blasts
every
trend."
style,
genre,
and
ideology,
the
book
—New
York
"Paglia
makes
more
outrageous
claims
in
her
first
20
pages
than
most
academics
dare
in
a
lifetime."
—Philadelphia
Inquirer
"A
fine,
disturbing
book.
needle."
It
seeks
to
attack
the
reader's
emotions
as
well
as
his/her
prejudices.
It
is
very
learned.
Each
sentence
jabs
like
a
—Anthony
Burgess
"Provocative
is
...
a
radical
reappraisal
of
the
brittle
human
condition.
Her
style
marked
by
angry
exhilaration,
epigrams
and
acid
paradoxes."
—
The
Times
Literary
Supplement
"We
are
in
the
presence
of
a
brilliant
but
reckless
mind
forever
taking
The
author
establishes
herself
as
one
of
the
bravest
and
most
Her
book
is
more
interesting
than
the
last
original
critics
of
our
day
five
books
by
Derrida,
contains
more
psychological
wisdom
than
the
chances
you
better
truths
about
gender
than
a
whole
library
of
academic
feminism,
and
is
more
intriguingly
decadent
than
Robert
Mapplethorpe."
—Raritan
complete
works
of
Lacan,
tells
"Sexual
Personae
art;
is
an
erotic
history
of
Western
literature
and
visual
written
in
a
style
both
erotic
and
aggressive,
it's
the
sort
of
criticism
is
Sontag
prophesied
but
didn't
produce.
Surely
the
time
right
for
such
a
attractively
book
It's
witty,
pointed,
aphoristic,
swift
and
usually
aware
of
its
own
status
as
hypercivilized
artifice
tive
is
provocation:
She's
out
to
seduce
or
inspire
—
—
Paglia's
first
objec-
At
her
epigrammatic
relays
her
best,
[she]
relays
her
pleasure
in
perception
and
discovery,
.
.
remarkable
energy
of
mind
book."
splendid
and
exhilarating.
a
brilliant
—
The
Nation
Sexual
rersonae
Art
and
Decadence
from
Nefertiti
to
Emily
Dickinson
CAMILLE
PAGLIA
Vintage
Books
A
Division
of
Random
House,
Inc.
New
York

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