Sexual personae : art and decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Paglia, Camille, 1947-
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: New York : Vintage Books, 1991.
Edición:1st Vintage Books ed.
Materias:
Literatura moderna > Siglo XIX > Historia y crítica.
Literatura moderna > Historia y crítica.
Decadencia en la literatura.
Paganismo en la literatura.
Sexo en literatura.
Paganismo en el arte.
Romanticismo
Sexo en el arte
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sex and violence, or nature and art
  • The birth of the western eye
  • Apollo and Dionysus
  • Pagan beauty
  • Renaissance form: Italian art
  • Spenser and Apollo: the Faerie queene
  • Shakespeare and Dionysus: As you like it and Antony and Cleopatra
  • Return of the great mother: Rousseau vs. Sade
  • Amazons, mothers, ghosts: Goethe to Gothic
  • Sex bound and unbound: Blake
  • Marriage to Mother Nature: Wordsworth
  • The Daemon as lesbian vampire: Coleridge
  • Speed and space: Byron
  • Light and heat: Shelley and Keats
  • Cults of sex and beauty: Balzac
  • Cults of sex and beauty: Gautier, Baudelaire, and Huysmans
  • Romantic shadows: Emily Bronte
  • Romantic shadows: Swinburne and Pater
  • Apollo daemonized: decadent art
  • The beautiful boy as destroyer: Wilde's The picture of Dorian Gray
  • The English epicene: Wilde's The importance of being earnest
  • American decadents: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville
  • American decadents: Emerson, Whitman, James
  • Amherst's Madame de Sade: Emily Dickinson.

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