| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 264 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Gender and culture |
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Gender and culture.
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| Contents |
Introduction: unextinguished: Susan Sontag's work in progress / Barbara Ching and Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor -- Some notes on "Notes on camp" / Terry Castle -- Absolute seriousness: Susan Sontag in American popular culture / Dana Heller -- "Not even a New Yorker": Susan Sontag in America / Barbara Ching -- Romances of community in Sontag's later fiction / Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor -- Sontag, modernity, and cinema: women and an aesthetics of silence, 1960-1980 / E. Ann Kaplan -- Sontag on theater / Julia Walker -- The "counterculture" in quotation marks: Sontag and Marcuse on the work of revolution / Craig J. Peariso -- A way of feeling is a way of seeing: Sontag and the visual arts / Leslie Luebbers -- Metaphors kill: "Against interpretation" and the illness books / Jay Prosser -- The posthumous life of Susan Sontag / Nancy K. Miller -- In summa: the latter essays: an appreciation / Sohnya Sayres -- Susan Sontag, cosmophage / Wayne Koestenbaum |
| Summary |
Susan Sontag (1933-2004) spoke of the promiscuity of art and literature & mdash;the willingness of great artists and writers to scandalize their spectators through critical frankness, complexity, and beauty. Sontag's life and thought were no less promiscuous. She wrote deeply and engagingly about a range of subjects & mdash;theater, sex, politics, novels, torture, and illness & mdash;and courted celebrity and controversy both publicly and privately. Throughout her career, she not only earned adulation but also provoked scorn. Her living was the embodiment of scandal. In this collect |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
| Subject |
Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004. fast (OCoLC)fst00034879 |
| Subject |
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Feminist.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ching, Barbara, 1958-
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Wagner-Lawlor, Jennifer A
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| LC no. |
2009033601 |
| ISBN |
9780231520454 |
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023152045X |
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