Paglia, Camille
Paglia, Camille( 1929– ),iconoclastic scholar and cultural critic, educated at Harpur College and at Yale, where Harold Bloom was her mentor, and for many years Professor of Humanities at the University of Arts in Philadelphia. She came to sudden national attention with her first book, long in the making and even longer in finding a publisher: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990). It was a stunning critical and popular success, a scholarly tour de force, and it established her as the leading critic of many articles in the feminist credo. Her writing is fresh and pyrotechnic, above all supremely confident in the attack and fearless of the response of the conventional scholarly establishment. She singles out as foolishly welcomed, baneful influences on American scholarship and teaching the writings of the post-existential French school of language philosophers, especially the work of Derrida,...
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