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Camille Paglia: belief

25 Apr 2016 Conversations with Tyler Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason)

“If you are a resident of Mississippi, Faulkner still lives and is vivid. I think, outside of that, it’s been years since I’ve heard Faulkner mentioned.”

— Camille Paglia

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Camille Paglia
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belief
Recorded
25 Apr 2016
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

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…William Faulkner. He’s totally gone, poor man. Actually, I’ve been commenting on this recently to my friends. I said, “You remember that period when Faulkner was everywhere, and everyone read him? He was just a baseline figure.” Thanks to Kate Millett and all these philistine feminist types in the early ’70s, there was a great sweeping away of many, many major male figures in the history of literature including Ernest Hemingway, D. H. Lawrence, who had a huge influence on me. If you are a resident of Mississippi, Faulkner still lives and is vivid. I think, outside of that, it’s been years since I’ve heard Faulkner mentioned. You’re saying underrated?…

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