Camille Paglia
Autor(a) de Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
About the Author
Camille Paglia is University Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
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Camille Paglia on Ayn Rand 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (1865) — Introdução, algumas edições — 25,348 exemplares
Living with Shakespeare: Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors (2013) — Contribuidor — 87 exemplares
Take My Advice: Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two (2002) — Contribuidor — 45 exemplares
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Paglia, Camille
- Nome legal
- Paglia, Camille Anna
- Data de nascimento
- 1947-04-02
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Endicott, New York, USA
- Locais de residência
- Endicott, New York, USA (birth)
Oxford, New York, USA
Syracuse, New York, USA - Educação
- State University of New York, Binghamton (Harpur College) (BA|1968)
Yale University (MPhil|1971, PhD|1974) - Ocupações
- professor
author
social critic
cultural critic
Professor of Humanities and Media Studies - Organizações
- Bennington College
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- American author, teacher and social critic. Her book, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, published in 1990, became a bestseller. Since 1984 Paglia has been a Professor at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 12
- Also by
- 8
- Membros
- 5,005
- Popularidade
- #5,007
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Críticas
- 44
- ISBN
- 77
- Línguas
- 9
- Marcado como favorito
- 19
At over 600 pages, hammering away at the same theme, it might be a bit long, and the last chapters on American literature are perhaps among the least engaging, thought it's difficult to say if that's because the reader just becomes ground down after several hundred pages, or because her subjects chosen from American literature are simply the least suited to her thesis (a possibility she herself acknowledges in comparing American culture to European). When, therefore, she finally arrives at Emily Dickinson, the subject which the title suggests will be the culmination, if not the actual climax, of the entire book, it's almost impossible not to be disappointed because you want so much for it to be more than it is.
All that said, the book is surely a classic, and an engrossing read whether you agree or disagree with her argument.… (mais)