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Against Interpretation And Other Essays by Susan Sontag
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Category: Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A dazzling intellectual performance' VogueAgainst Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and made her name as one of the most incisive thinkers of our time. Sontag was among the first critics to write about the intersection between 'high' and 'low' art forms, and to give them equa ...Show more
Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
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Category: HIV & AIDS Studies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"Aids and its Metaphors", the sequel, is obviously written in the light of the Aids crisis. Sontag states that our metaphors for Aids and its effects may be damaging; they suggest an apocalypse in personal and social terms, and therefore threaten not only the victims of the disease but all of society. ...Show more
Notes on Camp by Susan Sontag
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Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies | Series: Penguin Modern
The ultimate Camp statement - 'it's good because it's awful'. These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary sensation.
Stories (Susan Sontag) by Susan Sontag
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Category: General Fiction
Susan Sontag is most often remembered as a brilliant essayist - inquisitive, analytical, fearlessly outspoken. Yet all throughout her life, she also wrote short stories- fictions which wrestled with those ideas and preoccupations she couldn't address in essay form. These short fictions are allegories, p ...Show more
Susan Sontag: Essays of the 1960s & 70s: Against Interpretation, Styles of Radical Will, on Photography, Illness as Metaphor, Uncollected Essays by Susan Sontag
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Category: Non Fiction | Series: Library of America
With the publication of her first book of criticism, "Against Interpretation," in 1966, Susan Sontag placed herself at the forefront of an era of cultural and political transformation. "What is important now," she wrote, "is to recover our senses . . . . In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of ...Show more
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