Camille Paglia
Camille Paglia is University Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She is the author of Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson; Sex, Art, and American Culture; and ... [... more]
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Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of ...
 Her fresh writing, + 43 (mostly) great poems = success: This book is a real refreshment -- a shower of (mostly; I could have done without "Woodstock") great poems, with just enough stirring, insightful commentary to draw the reader deep into [... more]
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Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-Three of ...
Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems is destined to become a landmark. In it, America's premier intellectual provocateur explores and celebrates a series of great poems of the Western tradition, including some [... more]
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Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads the World's ...
With her knowledge of both classic and contemporary cultures, Paglia sheds illuminating light on the raw power of a wailing pop lyric as easily as she does on the cryptic wit of a line of Emily Dickinson. High school & older. [... more]
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Camp Nest
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. [... more]
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Saint Foucault
"My work has had nothing to do with gay liberation," Michel Foucault reportedly told an admirer in 1975. And indeed there is scarcely more than a passing mention of homosexuality in Foucault's scholarly writings. So why has Foucault, who died [... more]
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The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays
Book Description: Bringing together the thoughts of one of American literature's sharpest cultural critics, this compendium will open the eyes of a whole new audience to the work of Lionel Trilling. Trilling was a strenuous thinker who was proud to think [... more]
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Having It All: Love, Success, Sex, Money Even If You're ...
Far Too Long, But She Cured My Insomnia.: I agree with the other 1 & 2 star reviewers. This book had potential, but got lost in the authors endless sentences & Narcissism. This is basically padded common sense. It was at least 100 pages too long, [... more]
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Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from the Baffler
Amazon.com Review: In this thought-provoking collection of essays, editor Thomas Frank and other contributors to the contrarian journal the Baffler examine the unprecedented ascendancy of business as the dominating force in American life. If the closest [... more]
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Thou Shalt Not Be Aware (Meridian)
Amazon.com Review: Miller parts company with Freud on the origins of children's fantasies in this progressive study of repressed memory. Forget the Oedipus complex. Miller reasons that when children suffer abuse, their feelings of pain and rage have [... more]
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Inventing Herself
Amazon.com Review: "From Mary Wollstonecraft on, the great feminist icons were anything but saints," writes this literary critic, chair of the Princeton English Department, and '60s feminist activist. Choosing from her personal list of heroines, [... more]
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Life, the Movie
Amazon.com Review: In Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality, Neal Gabler traces the evolution of high and low culture in American society through the 19th and 20th centuries, and describes how low-brow entertainment became so influential in [... more]
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