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Sexual Personae - Art and decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Paperback • 1990 • English

Sexual Personae - Art and decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

By Camille Paglia

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Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson is a 1990 work about sexual decadence in Western literature and the visual arts by scholar Camille Paglia, in which she addresses major artists and writers such as Donatello, Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Emily Brontë, and Oscar Wilde. Following Friedrich Nietzsche, Paglia argues that the primary conflict in Western cul...Show more

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9780679735793

Published year

1990

Language

English

Original title

Sexual Personae - Art and decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Format

Paperback

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