| Description |
146 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Reasoning in public -- 1. Beyond the liberal imagination -- 2. A sense of an ending -- 3. Melancholy meditations -- 4. The way we live now -- Conclusion: The last intellectual |
| Summary |
Liam Kennedy presents Sontag as a modernist 'writer-intellectual' who has produced a distinctive critical perspective on such diverse subjects as camp, pornographic literature, fascist aesthetics, photography, illness and revolution. The book provides a detailed critical analysis of the poetics and politics of Sontag's intellectual eclecticism. She is presented as a singular interpreter and exponent of high modernist aesthetics who has built a major body of textual work around her strong 'sense of an ending', a perspective on late modernist culture which unites her diverse interests and spans her essays and fiction |
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Susan Sontag has been a major figure in American intellectual life for over thirty years. Her provocative and exacting writings, engaging a wide range of aesthetic, cultural and political issues, have been the basis of a highly public and controversial intellectual career. This study provides a critical introduction to her essays and fiction, illustrating how her work is shaped by her role as a public intellectual within the New York tradition |
| Analysis |
English literature |
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United States |
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English literature |
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United States |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Sontag, Vusan, 1933- -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140367
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| LC no. |
95000911 |
| ISBN |
0719037859 |
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0719037867 (paperback) |
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