episode 35 - Camille Paglia - part 01

[Paglia444]

I don't think Camille ever really "finished" Volume 2. I think she has high standards for the quality of her own writing, hence the 5 years it took to write a slender book like Break.

If Volume 2 were really "finished," she should publish it, regardless of the changes to popular culture. Her argument in Volume 1 was that paganism erupts at different moments of peak creativity; if pop culture circa 1920-1970 is one of those moments, who cares if pop culture has changed since then?

[6musky]

Monica Lewinski will go down in history.

[6musky]

I read Sexual Personae years and years ago, and she was talking about a Volume Two - what happened to it?

[daodon11]

@6musky She has said that her views on pop culture have changed so now she would have to reshape it into a kind of elegy, and besides everyone is writing about pop culture nowadays, is there any need for her to write another tome to it. But I don't understand why if it was all complete in 1981, then why didn't she just release part 2 in 1991 after part 1 was published? I don't quite get why it goes still unpublished.. I guess now we'll have to wait for part 2 to be published posthumously.

[TheJamesroy3]

Part 1 of 4 to just a stellar interview with writer and intellect Camille Paglia that addresses Poetry, popular culture and many other subjects- LOVE it!

[windowdresser]

Why don't these Drexel interviews include the dates of the interviews? We can guess at some of them, but this would be basic, academic information, no?

[beeroosterm]

@windowdresser I did your homework for you and looked at the end of the last part of the interview for the credits. It has a copyright of 2006.