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Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson<\/b><\/i>\u00a0is a 1990 work about sexual\u00a0decadence<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Western literature<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0visual arts<\/a>\u00a0by scholar\u00a0Camille Paglia<\/a>, in which she addresses major artists and writers such as\u00a0Donatello<\/a>,\u00a0Sandro Botticelli<\/a>,\u00a0Leonardo da Vinci<\/a>,\u00a0Edmund Spenser<\/a>,\u00a0William Shakespeare<\/a>,\u00a0Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/a>,\u00a0Samuel Taylor Coleridge<\/a>,\u00a0Lord Byron<\/a>,\u00a0Emily Bront\u00eb<\/a>, and\u00a0Oscar Wilde<\/a>. Following\u00a0Friedrich Nietzsche<\/a>, Paglia argues that the primary conflict in Western culture is between the binary forces of the\u00a0Apollonian and Dionysian<\/a>,\u00a0Apollo<\/a>\u00a0being associated with order, symmetry, culture, rationality, and sky, and\u00a0Dionysus<\/a>\u00a0with disorder, chaos, nature, emotion, and earth.[1]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0The book became a bestseller,[2]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0received critical reviews from numerous feminist scholars, and was praised by numerous literary critics.<\/p>\n