This work champions the little-known novel Fragoletta by Henri de Latouche, noting its influence on Balzac's Sarrasine and Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin.
This work refers to Henry James' late style as "a Byzantine fabric of shuddering grandeur." It quotes Lady Caroline Lamb's Glenarvon in comparing Lord Byron to Elvis Presley. This work says that "Infant Joy" is "Blake's most neglected major poem," and claims that "The Crystal Cabinet" represents the entrapment of the penis in the vagina. This work champions the little-known novel Fragoletta by Henri de Latouche, noting its influence on Balzac's Sarrasine and Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin. This work contrasts the Venus of Willendorf with the Bust of Nefertiti in a discussion of the Apollonian and the Dionysian, and compares Emily Dickinson to the Marquis de Sade, who the author favors over Rousseau. It includes extensive discussion of the "western eye" and androgynes in Western culture. For 10 points, name this work of literary criticism by Camille Paglia.
This work refers to Henry James' late style as "a Byzantine fabric of shuddering grandeur.
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