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Break, Blow, Burn. Camille Paglia’s penchant for flamboyant observations, penetrating and provocative insights, and frequent contemptuous dismissals of rival positions has resulted in her ...
An interview with Camille Paglia, which focuses on her latest work, begins by asking how her approach to interpretation lines up with that taken in modern universities: SB: In your introduction to Break, Blow, Burn you lay out your approach for reading a poem, a method that involves both a close reading of the text and a recognition of the ...
Jul 1, 2005 · by Sam Schulman. Break, Blow, Burn. by Camille Paglia. Pantheon. 272 pp. $20.00. Camille Paglia, a scholar who slipped past the cultural gatekeepers in 1990 with the publication of Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, is a figure to contend with. Like her great model, Oscar Wilde, an early “master of mass ...
Jul 26, 2024 · In Break, Blow, Burn, there are many nature poems–from Emily Dickinson’s contemplation of a cold mechanical universe to Gary Snyder’s evocation of a glacial pond in the High Sierra. But the most dramatic example is one of my discoveries, Norman H. Russell’s “The Tornado”, which captures the horror and chaos of sudden disaster, whether from the rude elements or from a terrorist attack.
March 27, 2005. Break, Blow, Burn By Camille Paglia. 247 pp. Pantheon Books. $20. CLEARLY designed as a come-on for bright students who don't yet know very much about poetry, Camille Paglia's new ...
Jan 1, 2005 · By these standards, Break, Blow, Burn is modest: It tries to introduce good, accessible short poems in English and to help readers enjoy them as Paglia does. That is what good teachers do, and the first three-quarters of the book follows through, offering patient, vigorous and largely uncontroversial explication of poems by Shakespeare, Donne (whom her title quotes), Wordsworth, Coleridge and ...
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The dust jacket to Camille Paglia's BREAK, BLOW, BURN boasts that the famed culture critic who once penned SEXUAL PERSONAE has written a "[d]aring, erudite, entertaining" text that is "destined to become a landmark." Initially such acclaim seems hard to swallow. What, one has every right to ask, does Camille Paglia know about poetry?
