Talk:Sexual Personae
From Academic Kids
> Does Bronte mean the Brontë sisters, Emily Brontë et al?
Yes, that's correct.
> Which of the two possible Balzacs: the obvious one or the obscure one?
The obvious one, Honore.
Paglia seems to think there are no men in the East. Or else it's a matriarchy. She goes WEST=MASCULINE=APOLLO=SKY, EAST=FEMININE=DIONYSUS=EARTH. She goes on about how "phallic and sky-pointing" pillars and obelisk tell us about Western personality. How about fuckin' Eastern minarets? The West doesn't have a monopoly on long, pointy things. Eastern art (and society) are as rigid, stylized and hierarchical (and male-dominated), thus "Apollonian" as you can get.
Oh, yeah. She thinks there are no individual personalities in the East either.
Oh, yeah. This Apollo/Dionysus dichotomy was invented by later commentators. There's no evidence the Greeks ever thought of them in our modern terms.
--Rose.
