Free online books download read Provocations: Collected Essays 9781524746896 in English

Provocations: Collected Essays by Camille Paglia

• Provocations: Collected Essays
• Camille Paglia
• Page: 736
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9781524746896
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Provocations: Collected Essays

Free online books download read Provocations: Collected Essays 9781524746896 in English

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Provocations: Collected Essays by Camille Paglia The definitive Camille Paglia collection: a lavishly comprehensive volume of writing that spans twenty-five years of the intellectual firebrand’s influential career   Much has changed since Camille Paglia first burst onto the scene with her groundbreaking Sexual Personae, but the laser-sharp insights of this major American thinker continue to be ahead of the curve—not only capturing the tone of the mo­ment but also often anticipating it. Opening with a blazing manifesto of an introduction in which Paglia outlines the bedrock beliefs that inform her writing—freedom of speech, the necessity of fearless inquiry, and a deep respect for all art, both erudite and popular—Provocations gathers together a rich, varied body of work that illumi­nates everything from the Odyssey to the Oscars, from punk rock to presidents past and present.   Whatever your political inclination or liter­ary and artistic touchstones, Paglia’s takes are compulsively readable, thought provoking, gal­vanizing, and an essential part of our cultural dialogue, invariably giving voice to what most needs to be said.