“Teaching Shakespeare to Actors” originally published as a chapter in Living with Shakespeare, ed. Susannah Carson (Vintage, 2013).
“Scholars Talk Writing: Camille Paglia” originally appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education on November 9, 2015.
“Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra” originally published as program notes for production starring Helen Mirren at the National Theatre, London, October 1998.
“Tennessee Williams and A Streetcar Named Desire” originally appeared as “Tennessee Williams” in A New Literary History of America, edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Copyright © 2009 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
“Dance of the Senses: Natural Vision and Psychotic Mysticism in Theodore Roethke” was originally the keynote lecture of a conference celebrating the centenary of Roethke’s birth, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2008, and was subsequently published in Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 2009.
“Final Cut: The Selection Process for Break, Blow, Burn” originally appeared in Arion, Fall 2008.
“Western Love Poetry” was originally an article in The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, ed. Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan. Copyright © 1993 by Princeton University Press. Reprinted with permission.
“ ‘Stay, Illusion’: Ambiguity in Shakespeare’s Hamlet” was originally a lecture in a series on ambiguity in Western culture, Intellectual Heritage Program, Temple University, October 18, 2003, and was subsequently published in Ambiguity in the Western Mind, ed. Craig J. N. de Paulo et al. (Lang, 2005).
“Columbia Journal Interview: Writing” originally appeared in Columbia Journal, Issue 39 (2004), pp. 79–88.
“The Death of Norman Mailer” originally appeared in Salon (www.Salon.com) on November 13, 2007. The Hochswender letter and commentary appeared in Salon on April 8, 2008.
“Dispatches from the New Frontier: Writing for the Internet” originally published as a chapter in Communication and Cyberspace: Social Interaction in an Electronic Environment, ed. Lance Strate et al. (Hampton Press, 2003). Reprinted by permission of Hampton Press.
“On Andy Warhol” originally appeared as part of an interview with Priscilla Frank in Huffington magazine on November 7, 2012.
“Millennium Masterworks: The Mona Lisa” originally appeared in The Sunday Times (London) on April 18, 1999.
“Picasso’s Girl Before a Mirror” originally appeared in ARTnews, Volume 95, No. 1, January 1996. Reprinted courtesy of Art Media Holdings.
“More Mush from the NEA” originally appeared in The Wall Street Journal on October 24, 1997.
“Dance: The Most Fragile of the Arts” originally appeared in Dance magazine, July 2005. Reprinted by permission.
“Controversy at the Brooklyn Museum” originally appeared in Salon (www.Salon.com) on October 6, 1999.
“The Magic of Images: Word and Picture in a Media Age” was originally a lecture at the “Living Literacies” conference, York University, Ontario, November 15, 2002, and was subsequently published in expanded form in Arion, Winter 2004.
“Free Speech and the Modern Campus” was originally a lecture for Pennoni Honors College Free Speech Forum, Drexel University, on April 21, 2016.
“On Canons” originally appeared as part of an interview with Gunter Axt in CULT magazine (Brazil) on August 15, 2014.
“The Right Kind of Multiculturalism” originally appeared in The Wall Street Journal on September 30, 1999.
“Cant and Fad in Classics” originally appeared in The Washington Post Book World on March 29, 1998.
“Intolerance and Diversity in Three Cities: Ancient Babylon, Renaissance Venice, and Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia” was originally a lecture for the Ethics, Religion, and Society Program at Xavier University, Cincinnati, April 5, 2013, and was subsequently published in Justice Through Diversity?, ed. Michael J. Sweeney (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016).
“On Genius” originally appeared in Salon (www.Salon.com) on February 3, 1999.
“The Mighty River of Classics: Tradition and Innovation in Modern Education” was originally a lecture at Santa Clara University, May 5, 2001, and was subsequently published in Arion, Fall 2001.
“The North American Intellectual Tradition” was originally the Second Marshall McLuhan Lecture, Fordham University, February 17, 2000. Excerpted in The Globe and Mail and subsequently published in Explorations in Media Ecology 1, no. 1 (2002).
“Erich Neumann: Theorist of the Great Mother” was originally a lecture for the Otto and Ilse and Mainzer Lecture Series, sponsored by Deutsches Haus, New York University, November 10, 2005, and was subsequently published in Arion, Winter 2006.
“Slippery Scholarship” originally appeared in The Washington Post Book World on July 17, 1994.
“Making the Grade: The Gay Studies Ghetto” originally appeared in The Advocate on September 5, 1995.
“Gay Ideology in Public Schools” originally appeared in The Wall Street Journal as “It Wasn’t Romeo and Julian” on February 22, 1999.
“The Death of Claude Lévi-Strauss” originally appeared in Salon (www.Salon.com) on November 10, 2005.
“The Columbine High School Massacre” originally appeared in Salon (www.Salon.com) on April 28, 1999.
“Vocational Education and Revalorization of the Trades” originally appeared in Salon (www.Salon.com) on March 21, 2001.
“No to the Invasion of Iraq” originally appeared in Salon (www.Salon.com) on February 7, 2003.
“Language and the Left” originally appeared in The Advocate on March 7, 1995.
“Camp Insensitivity” originally appeared in The Wall Street Journal on July 30, 1998.
“Bill Clinton: The Hormonal President” originally appeared in The Advocate on June 25, 1996.
“Sarah Palin: Country Woman” originally appeared in Salon (www.Salon.com) on September 10, 2008.
“Donald Trump: Viking Dragon” originally appeared in Salon (www.Salon.com) on May 19, 2016.
“Jesus and the Bible” originally appeared in Salon (www.Salon.com) on January 14, 2009.
“That Old-Time Religion” originally appeared in The Advocate on December 26, 1995.
“Cults and Cosmic Consciousness: Religious Vision in the American 1960s” was originally a lecture for the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion, Yale University, on March 26, 2002, and was subsequently published in Arion, Winter 2003.
“Religion and the Arts in America” was originally the Cornerstone Arts Lecture, Colorado College, broadcast by C-SPAN, American Perspectives series, 2007, and was subsequently published in Arion, Spring–Summer 2007.
“Resolved: Religion Belongs in the Curriculum” was originally an opening statement supporting the resolution, Yale Political Union, Yale University, on April 11, 2017.
“St. Teresa of Avila” was originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on December 31, 1999.
“Powell’s Q&A: Camille Paglia” first published on October 11, 2012. http://www.powells.com/post/guests/powells-qa-camille-paglia.
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The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Kim Stafford: Excerpt of “The Color That Really Is” from A Glass Face in the Rain by William Stafford, originally appeared in Crazy Horse, Number 18 (Spring 1979), copyright © 1979, 1982 by William Stafford. Reprinted by permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Kim Stafford.
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Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, on behalf of EMI April Music Inc. and Uncle Ronnie’s Music Co.: Excerpt of “Fascination” by Luther Vandross and David Bowie, copyright © 1975 by EMI April Music Inc., Uncle Ronnie’s Music Co., & Publishers Unknown. All rights on behalf of EMI April Music Inc. and Uncle Ronnie’s Music Co. administered and reprinted by permission of Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC. All rights reserved. · Excerpt of “Lady Grinning Soul” by David Bowie, copyright © 1973 by EMI Music Publishing LTD & Publishers Unknown; excerpt of “Suffragette City” by David Bowie, copyright © 1972 by EMI Music Publishing LTD & Publishers Unknown; and excerpt of “All the Young Dudes” by David Bowie, copyright © 1971 by EMI Music Publishing LTD & Publishers Unknown. All rights on behalf of EMI Music Publishing LTD administered and reprinted by permission of Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC. All rights reserved.
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University of Illinois Press: Excerpt of “You Can’t Rhumboogie in a Ball and Chain” from Dance Script with Electric Ballerina: Poems by Alice Fulton, copyright © 1983 by Alice Fulton. Reprinted by permission of the University of Illinois Press.
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University of Pittsburgh Press: “Frying Trout While Drunk” from The Nerve of It: Poems Selected and New by Lynn Emanuel, copyright © 2015 by Lynn Emanuel. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.
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5 Photo: René-Gabriel Ojéda. Musée du Louvre. © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY
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12 Martin Kozlowski; reproduced with the permission of the artist and The Wall Street Journal
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14 Yale Political Union
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Camille Paglia is the University Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She is the author of Free Women, Free Men; Glittering Images; Break, Blow, Burn; The Birds; Vamps & Tramps; Sex, Art, and American Culture; and Sexual Personae.
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