Sexual Personae
art and decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
$35.81
- Paperback
736 pages
- Release Date
4 August 2026
Summary
‘Everything great in Western culture has come from the quarrel with nature … The most effective weapon against the flux of nature is art.’
In this blazing work of brilliant originality, a phenomenon ever since it was first published in 1990, Camille Paglia outlines a new unified theory of Western art and literature and the primacy of sex and violence within it. Identifying the competing symbolic forces of Apollo and Dionysus ― reason and instinct, order and chaos, logic and passion, m…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761382000 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1761382004 |
| Author: | Camille Paglia |
| Publisher: | Scribe Publications |
| Imprint: | Scribe Publications |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 736 |
| Release Date: | 4 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 566g |
| Dimensions: | 48mm x 131mm x 197mm |
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Camille Paglia
Camille Paglia is a scholar and culture critic who taught at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia for nearly 40 years. She is also the author of Sex, Art, and American Culture; Vamps & Tramps; The Birds; Break, Blow, Burn; Glittering Images; Free Women, Free Men; and Provocations.
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