Sexual Personae Chapters 16: Cults of Sex and Beauty; Gautier, Baudelaire & Huysmans, 17: Romantic Shadows; Emily Brontë, and 18: Romantic Shadows; Swinburne and Pater (Patron-Only) (Patreon)
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In these chapters Paglia explores the major figures of the Decadent literary movement, gives her incredible theory of Emily Brontë's projection into Heathcliff in her novel Wuthering Heights, and introduces us to the astounding pagan poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, and the Heraclitean Art Critic Walter Pater. Chapter 16: https://youtu.be/8mzBi4SLyl4?si=ntGMx8-zVxBicT1XChapter 17: https://youtu.be/8mzBi4SLyl4?si=WpqnF8kdM3yVKLeS&t=1107Chapter 18: https://youtu.be/8mzBi4SLyl4?si=yYNsrU2zESOw9Pfj&t=1695Links:Dr. K - Limerence: https://youtu.be/YRwb-eUrso4?si=UoKsh2K9VoUtc0Cx
Jon Auring Grimm: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14797585.2024.2408329
Barthes's "The Metaphor of the Eye": https://uglywords.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/roland-barthes-the-metaphor-of-the-eye/