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Sexual Personae

718 pages · 1991 · Rating 4.3

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This language-driven work—where every paragraph is a sentence and every sentence is a speech act—launches a powerful critique of all forms of Western culture, from the classics to Hollywood. It's a work that reconstructs art history in order to dismantle the idea that art mirrors nature and truth—instead, art mirrors human ideas about nature. In the process, it offers a new approach to understanding the nature of male and female, form and chaos, civilization and daemonic nature.

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