Camille Paglia Talks About Her Writing Process
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 พ.ย. 2015
- Camille Paglia, cultural critic, is the author of the bestseller, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), a 700-page academic study of pagan sexual symbols in Western Art that provoked widespread debate and received national media attention. A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the book instantly established Paglia as a controversial and sought-after commentator, while her view of sexuality as a chaotic and subversive force made her a lightning rod for criticism from both the Right and the Left. Other books by Paglia include Sex in N.Y. City: An Illustrated History (2002, with Alison Maddex), The Birds (1998), a book-length personal appreciation of Hitchcock's classic horror film, Vamps & Tramps: New Essays (1994), Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays (1992), and Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems (2005).
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There is nobody like her. The biggest influence of my life.
I love that she explains the importance of pencil on paper. The tactile experience is integral to our being
CP just cracks me up. So straight, no bullshit. Truly an awakened being.
OMG Camille , I love your crazy mind. So many times I find myself thinking and talking about my dreams. I don't know a lot of people that do that. I love how you explain that your mind is "boiling" thoughts. You are an inspiration.
Word. "Sexual Personae" is one hellaciously written book. A must, must, must read.
Blond Thought indeed. I don't agree with everything in it - she underrates John Milton, IMO, and she doesn't like Chaucer. But otherwise, a brilliant, a strong book.
She is so passionate in her thinking that she is bound to be controversial to anyone who reads her. I love that.
I loved it. I want to read it again
Paglia is so rockin' awesome!
I never would have realized how much can go into the craft of writing. This has been quite valuable to watch.
Mozart only ever wrote about his writing process once. His method was eerily similar to Camille Paglia. Camille probably does not know this. He would compose in his head and conceived of the totality of the entire composition before he sat to write it down on paper. He pre envisioned where the highs and lows and the fasts and the slows were to go. Mozart was also lazy and didn't always bother to write out the left hand part or tediously labor over inconsequential details. The only time he ever did that were the six quartets that he dedicated to Haydn. Contrast this with Bach who would write out 36 measures then maybe crossout 16 of them.
Her preference for writing longhand, one I share for the initial processes, is likely also due to the hand-brain machinations. Using one hand keeps us in the writer's mind while using both, in my experience, adds a new more editorial perspective by utilizing the other half of our brain.
A total original. No one writes like her.
one of our greatest educators!
i would adore taking writing cpurse by camille
Went in to the biggest book store in Dublin to buy a Paglia book and there was NOTHING by this great author, original thinker, national treasure.
A trip to the bookstore is utterly disappointing, these days.
Yes! Relationship with the words and paper. Returning to longhand myself.
If the world had more women like her there would be more female geniuses
And more teachers like her.
To see her talk about writing is oddly cathartic for me as an aspiring academic and advocate for the synthetic process of assimilating information.
+John H. I too would like to start writing again, about her work especially.
If it is "cathartic" to you then you're in a heap of trouble as a writer because a master sharing her skill and technique should feel anything *but* cathartic. It should exactly be inspiring and motivational if you share the aspiration of writing, especially when you identify with her visions and creative mind!
Please visit your local theatre henceforth for a good, vivid and empassioned play to quench your need for catharsis if you are serious about striving to become of any real cultural importance and impact as *that* is an appropriate place where one ought to look for such an experience!
She is the only person that should and deserves to have her consciousness transfered to some immortal high tech vehicle, so she could just carry on spanking our asses and keep schooling us. A brilliant person!
check out U.G. Krishnamurti, different field similar attitude ok
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Reading Sexual Personae is like fighting Mike Tyson and Bruce Lee incarnated in the same body.
She is a fantastic writer.
CP writing drafts in longhand, oldstyle, made my eyes pop out! Odd how alien that already seems to me now- despite the acres of it I did previously. I now suppose that when I write on my laptop I still feel the same... though the computer IS great for editing and honing! I do not know where would I be without that facility!
This woman is a wonder
falling in love with her again. had to age a bit to really appreciate. i was thrown off by the pederasty thing and paid little attention for a while. i love how she calls it "cooking". we've always called it that, too. in the kitchen. you know. sometimes you have to observe someone being truly intellectually and emotionally authentic to be reminded that it is both possible, and worth pursuing. i was Sad Girl for so long.
I adore her scholarship. She's fan-f*ing-tastic.
"Sexual personae" is quite a dense book 😂😂😂 intellectually stimulating her work is a must read . Her pen has changed lives 😊😊
Okay
yyyyyes. oh Camille.
I adore her!!
I love her.
The Dionysian is no picnic!
Gotta love the woman. Camille Machine Gun Paglia.
Elon musk in the thumbnail!
She is....
Paglia got some GOOD drugs.
Sober as a judge.
"If women were running the world we'd still be living in grass huts." Yeah, Camille---if only! Nobody's better at romanticising fascism.