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1 online resource (1 audio file (35hr., 19 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Narrated by Emily Durante. |
| Summary |
In this brilliantly original book, Camille Paglia identifies some of the major patterns that have endured in western culture from ancient Egypt and Greece to the present. According to Paglia, one source of continuity is paganism, which, undefeated by Judeo-Christianity, continues to flourish in art, eroticism, astrology, and pop culture. Others, she says, are androgyny, sadism, and the aggressive western eye, which has created our art and cinema. Paglia follows these and other themes, from Nefertiti and the Venus of Willendorf to Apollo and Dionysus, from Botticelli and Michaelangelo to Shakespeare and Blake and finally to Emily Dickinson, who, along with other major nineteenth-century authors, becomes a remarkable example of Romanticism turned into Decadence. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Sex in literature.
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Sex in art.
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Decadence (Literary movement)
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Paganism in literature.
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Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Modern -- History and criticism.
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Paganism in art.
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Romanticism.
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Arts.
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Art.
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Durante, Emily. Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781541493063 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1541493060 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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MWT11990163 |
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