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The Scandal of Susan Sontag / ed. by Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor, Barbara Ching.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Gender and Culture SeriesPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) : 9 illusContent type:
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  • 9780231149174
  • 9780231520454
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 818.5409
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations for Commonly Used Titles -- Figures -- Introduction: Unextinguished: Susan Sontag's Work in Progress -- One. Some Notes on "Notes on Camp" -- Two. Absolute Seriousness -- Three. "Not Even a New Yorker" -- Four. Romances of Community in Sontag's Later Fiction -- Five. Sontag, Modernity, and Cinema -- Six. Sontag on Theater -- Seven. The "Counterculture" in Quotation Marks -- Eight. A Way of Feeling Is a Way of Seeing -- Nine. Metaphors Kill -- Ten. The Posthumous Life of Susan Sontag -- Eleven. In Summa: The Latter Essays-an Appreciation -- Twelve. Susan Sontag, Cosmophage -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary: Susan Sontag (1933-2004) spoke of the promiscuity of art and literature—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—theater, sex, politics, novels, torture, and illness—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 collection, Terry Castle, Nancy K. Miller, Wayne Koestenbaum, E. Ann Kaplan, and other leading scholars revisit Sontag's groundbreaking life and work. Against Interpretation, "Notes on Camp," Letter from Hanoi, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, I, Etcetera, and The Volcano Lover—these works form the center of essays no less passionate and imaginative than Sontag herself. Debating questions raised by the thinker's own images and identities, including her sexuality, these works question Sontag's status as a female intellectual and her parallel interest in ambitious and prophetic fictional women; her ambivalence toward popular culture; and her personal and professional "scandals." Paired with rare photographs and illustrations, this timely anthology expands our understanding of Sontag's images and power.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations for Commonly Used Titles -- Figures -- Introduction: Unextinguished: Susan Sontag's Work in Progress -- One. Some Notes on "Notes on Camp" -- Two. Absolute Seriousness -- Three. "Not Even a New Yorker" -- Four. Romances of Community in Sontag's Later Fiction -- Five. Sontag, Modernity, and Cinema -- Six. Sontag on Theater -- Seven. The "Counterculture" in Quotation Marks -- Eight. A Way of Feeling Is a Way of Seeing -- Nine. Metaphors Kill -- Ten. The Posthumous Life of Susan Sontag -- Eleven. In Summa: The Latter Essays-an Appreciation -- Twelve. Susan Sontag, Cosmophage -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- Backmatter

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Susan Sontag (1933-2004) spoke of the promiscuity of art and literature—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—theater, sex, politics, novels, torture, and illness—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 collection, Terry Castle, Nancy K. Miller, Wayne Koestenbaum, E. Ann Kaplan, and other leading scholars revisit Sontag's groundbreaking life and work. Against Interpretation, "Notes on Camp," Letter from Hanoi, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, I, Etcetera, and The Volcano Lover—these works form the center of essays no less passionate and imaginative than Sontag herself. Debating questions raised by the thinker's own images and identities, including her sexuality, these works question Sontag's status as a female intellectual and her parallel interest in ambitious and prophetic fictional women; her ambivalence toward popular culture; and her personal and professional "scandals." Paired with rare photographs and illustrations, this timely anthology expands our understanding of Sontag's images and power.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)