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books by Camille Paglia

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Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems

38 reviews
Camille Paglia

Vintage, 2006

a logical Next Step after Poetry for Dummies - and I mean that quite favorably!
My experience with poetry is probably quite common. I suffered through a few lessons in high school (Browning, Yeats, Shakespeare, Chaucer) and didn't give verse another thought for 20 years. I tried to add poetry back into my Reading Life because I would like to be able to enjoy language as an art, like a painting or music, and I am now mature enough to understand that language art is what ...

Raritan (A Quarterly Review, Vol. 4, No. 3, Winter 1985)
Kenneth Koch, Michael Boudin, James Guetti and others Camille Paglia

Rutgers University, 1985

Five major articles, including Camille Paglia on Oscar Wilde, and a poem by Kenneth Koch.

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

53 reviews
Camille Paglia

Vintage Books, 1991

An Erotics of Art
Way back when Susan Sontag was still an important critic, she said, "In place of hermeneutics we need an erotics of art." Well, here it is. The basic thesis of this book is simple, though its consequences are far-ranging. She maintains that aesthetic principles are rooted in the artist's perception of and ideas about nature, sex, and women, (which are inextricable because, as she says, "sex is ...

Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

28 reviews

Vintage, 1994

Food for thought...debate...and brawl
One of the most controversial figures in contemporary society is explosive critic, art historian, pop philosopher, and author Camille Paglia. Her newest collection of essays, VAMPS AND TRAMPS, includes sharpened swords drawn and abruptly driven into the current direction of gay activism, feminist thought, and academia. Her criticism is fierce, at once educated and adolescent, she is a rebel ...

Tom of Finland XXL

8 reviews
John Waters, Edward Lucie-Smith, ...

TASCHEN America Llc, 2009

A Big Book about a Big Man
Hanson, Dian (editor). "Tom of Finland XXL", Taschen, 2009. A Big Book about a Big Man Amos Lassen Tom of Finland is an international gay icon whose social and personal impact has been great. He has an intense following within the gay community but has been largely unknown by the rest of the world. Taschen commissioned essays on his impact to accompany this oversized volume which shows ...

Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

25 reviews
Camille Paglia

Vintage, 1992

In a Class by Herself
To read this book is an intellectual adventure. Miss Paglia stands alone, apart from her time, as Pound or Carlyle or Johnson did. Whether one agrees with everything she says is beside the point. First, she is a model of an independent-thinker who refuses to utter a cliche or pander to popular prejudice. Second, she stirs the reader to think for himself and to think clearly. Socrates says of ...

Camp Nest (Place Space)
Todd Oldham, Camille Paglia

Ammo Books, 2008

The fourth of four titles in a continuing series of books by Todd Oldham that highlight remarkable people, places and spaces features an essay by author/social critic/educator Camille Paglia.

The Birds (BFI Film Classics)

16 reviews
Camille Paglia

British Film Institute, 1998

Arrows Of The Wise
Those who would like to learn to write well could hardly do better than study Camille Paglia's The Birds (1998), the author's exhilarating monograph on Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 horror masterpiece. The British Film Institute (BFI), which sponsored the book in its BFI Film Classics series, has made some highly questionable choices in its "modern" selection of "the 360 key films in the history of ...