Camille Paglia
Autor de Sexual personae : arte y decadencia desde Nefertiti a Emily Dickinson
Sobre El Autor
Camille Paglia is University Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
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Camille Paglia on Ayn Rand 1 copia
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Take My Advice: Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two (2002) — Contribuidor — 45 copias
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Paglia, Camille
- Nombre legal
- Paglia, Camille Anna
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1947-04-02
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Endicott, New York, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Endicott, New York, USA (birth)
Oxford, New York, USA
Syracuse, New York, USA - Educación
- State University of New York, Binghamton (Harpur College) (BA|1968)
Yale University (MPhil|1971, PhD|1974) - Ocupaciones
- professor
author
social critic
cultural critic
Professor of Humanities and Media Studies - Organizaciones
- Bennington College
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Biografía breve
- American author, teacher and social critic. Her book, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, published in 1990, became a bestseller. Since 1984 Paglia has been a Professor at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 12
- También por
- 8
- Miembros
- 5,024
- Popularidad
- #4,980
- Valoración
- 4.1
- Reseñas
- 44
- ISBNs
- 77
- Idiomas
- 9
- Favorito
- 19
At over 600 pages, hammering away at the same theme, it might be a bit long, and the last chapters on American literature are perhaps among the least engaging, though it may be that I just became ground down after several hundred pages, or that her subjects chosen from American literature are simply the least suited to her thesis (a possibility she herself acknowledges in comparing American culture to European). When, therefore, she finally arrives at Emily Dickinson, the subject which the title suggests will be the culmination, if not the actual climax, of the entire book, it's almost impossible not to be disappointed because you want so much for it to be more than it is.
All that said, the book is surely a classic, and an engrossing read whether you agree or disagree with her argument.… (más)