Sexual Personae

Sexual Personae

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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 DonatelloSandro BotticelliLeonardo da VinciEdmund SpenserWilliam ShakespeareJohann Wolfgang von GoetheSamuel Taylor ColeridgeLord ByronEmily Brontë, and Oscar Wilde. Following Friedrich Nietzsche, Paglia argues that the primary conflict in Western culture is between the binary forces of the Apollonian and DionysianApollo being associated with order, symmetry, culture, rationality, and sky, and Dionysus with disorder, chaos, nature, emotion, and earth.[1] The book became a bestseller,[2] received critical reviews from numerous feminist scholars, and was praised by numerous literary critics.

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