TEXTUAL ANALYSIS

TEXTUAL ANALYSIS

Camille Paglia is a culture critic and professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. A founding contributor for Salon.com, she publishes articles in dozens of magazines and newspapers worldwide, and her most recent book is Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars (2012). This essay on Joni Mitchell comes from her book, Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-Three of the World’s Best Poems (2005). Mitchell is the only songwriter among this group of the world’s best poets; Paglia defends her choice of the singer, and through her analysis of the song “Woodstock,” reveals the complexity of Mitchell’s writing. The song lyrics are reprinted before the essay.

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Reading the Genre

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