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Whether she's asking if all men are obsolete, championing a more discerning standard of beauty that goes beyond plastic surgery's quest for eternal youth, lauding the liberating force of rock and roll, or demanding free and unfettered speech on university campuses and beyond, Paglia can always be counted on to get a discussion started.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt once illuminating, witty, and inspiring, these essays are essential reading that affirm the power of men and women and what we can accomplish together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46854539739372,"sku":"9781786892188","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781786892188.jpg?v=1759246109"},{"product_id":"the-birds-by-camille-paglia-9781838719401","title":"The Birds","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on Daphne du Maurier's short story and contemporary newspaper reports of bird attacks in California, Alfred Hitchcock's \u003ci\u003eThe Birds\u003c\/i\u003e (1963) featured Tippi Hedren in her first starring role.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCamille Paglia's compelling study considers the film's aesthetic, technical, and mythical qualities, and analyses its depiction of gender and family relations. 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The most effective weapon against the flux of nature is art.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this blazing work of brilliant originality, a phenomenon ever since it was first published in 1990, Camille Paglia outlines a new unified theory of Western art and literature and the primacy of sex and violence within it. Identifying the competing symbolic forces of Apollo and Dionysus ― reason and instinct, order and chaos, logic and passion, male and female, civilisation and nature ― \u003cem\u003eSexual Personae\u003c\/em\u003e outlines key archetypes that embody different levels of Apollonian and Dionysian forces: the Great Mother, the beautiful boy, the femme fatale, the amazon, amongst many others, and traces how these archetypes have animated the pagan battle that underlies all Western art and culture. Audacious, vastly erudite, and wildly entertaining, \u003cem\u003eSexual Personae\u003c\/em\u003e is art history that invites us to see the entire world anew.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA fine, disturbing book. It seeks to attack the reader's emotions as well as his\/her prejudices. It is very learned. Each sentence jabs like a needle.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e― Anthony Burgess\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe ability to infuriate both antagonists in an ideological struggle is often a sign of a first-rate book ... Paglia is a conspicuously gifted writer ... and an admirably close reader with a hard core of common sense.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e― The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSexual Personae an enormous sensation of a book ... there is no book comparable in scope, stance, design, or insight ... 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