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“The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style.”

Quote by Camille Paglia

Book:Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

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Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

This comprehensive study delves into the depiction of sexuality in art and literature, analyzing the works of artists and writers from ancient Egypt to the 19th century. The book examines the complex interplay between art, culture, and human sexuality, offering insights into the evolution of artistic expression and its relationship with societal norms. more

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Camille Paglia is an American academic, cultural critic, and author known for her controversial views on a variety of cultural and social issues. Born on April 2, 1947, she has taught at several universities and has written numerous books and articles on topics such as art, literature, and gender studies. more

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“The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.”

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Book:Sexual Personae

Source: Sexual Personae

“We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and are now blighting the most promising minds of the next generation. This is a major crisis if there ever was one, and every sensible person must help bring it to an end.”

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Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.”

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Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

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“The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.”

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Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

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“Running to Mommy and Daddy on the campus grievance committee is unworthy of strong women.”

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Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

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“The born-yesterday French-besotted faddists, addicted sniffers of wet printer's ink, think they're starting on the ground floor; so they're condemned to another hundred years of trial and error. The rest of us can safely ignore them.”

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Author:Camille Paglia

“Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or popular culture think they can just wade in with Lacan and trash everything in sight.”

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Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's women students are meeting their oppressors in dangerously seductive new form, as successful congenial female professors who view themselves as victims of a rigid foreign ideology.”

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Author:Camille Paglia

“It was in reading Tristam Shandy that I noticed how it is primarily men who gravitate towards the game-playing self-reflexive style. There is an alienation from emotion in it, a Nervous Nelly fear of letting go and being "exposed." As an attitude towards life, it betrays a perpetual adolescence. Those who hurled themselves after Derrida were not the most sophisticated but the most pretentious, and least creative members of my generation of academics.”

“The post-war "publish or perish" tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. [...] One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.”

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Author:Camille Paglia