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In the Archive of Longing : Susan Sontag's Critical Modernism / Mena Mitrano.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) : 14 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474414340
  • 9781474414357
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 818/.5409 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3569.O6547 M58 2016eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Archival Relation -- 1 Thoughts about Thinking: Approaching Sontag -- 2 Aesthetic Experience and Critical Theory -- 3 The Public Intellectual -- 4 Modernism and Theory -- 5 Iconologies -- 6 Aura, Dread and the Amateur -- 7 Interlocution -- Coda (to the Gentle Reader) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Reads modernism and theory through Susan Sontag's archiveGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9781474414340','ISBN:9781474414357','ISBN:97814364']);This adventurous critical inquiry into Sontag's archive illuminates the intimate link between modernism and theory while also providing a fascinating reintroduction to these two movements and concepts. Mena Mitrano explores three core ideas in this study: the confusion of terms between modernism and theory; the concept of an 'unwritten theory' suggested by Sontag's subterranean engagement with the foremost theorists of our time (Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Lacan, Jameson and others) in the rawness of her journals and notebooks; and Sontag's identity as a non-traditional philosopher, through the extraordinary discipleship to Walter Benjamin. The book is driven by new archival research and will have a multi-layered impact, changing our perception of Sontag as a post-Cold War public intellectual as well as interrogating key concepts in the Humanities.Key Features Original study of Susan Sontag's contribution to the development of critical thoughtOpens new avenues for research in the expanding field of new modernist studies and in the field of criticismDiscusses Sontag's collaboration with Walter Benjamin which reopens the question of the author and encourages an understanding of this concept from a psychoanalytic perspective, as a transgenerational phenomenonIncludes a discussion of the role of the American avant-garde in Sontag's abandonment of philosophy and in her turn to a pioneering, more theoretical literary criticism"
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Archival Relation -- 1 Thoughts about Thinking: Approaching Sontag -- 2 Aesthetic Experience and Critical Theory -- 3 The Public Intellectual -- 4 Modernism and Theory -- 5 Iconologies -- 6 Aura, Dread and the Amateur -- 7 Interlocution -- Coda (to the Gentle Reader) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Reads modernism and theory through Susan Sontag's archiveGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9781474414340','ISBN:9781474414357','ISBN:97814364']);This adventurous critical inquiry into Sontag's archive illuminates the intimate link between modernism and theory while also providing a fascinating reintroduction to these two movements and concepts. Mena Mitrano explores three core ideas in this study: the confusion of terms between modernism and theory; the concept of an 'unwritten theory' suggested by Sontag's subterranean engagement with the foremost theorists of our time (Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Lacan, Jameson and others) in the rawness of her journals and notebooks; and Sontag's identity as a non-traditional philosopher, through the extraordinary discipleship to Walter Benjamin. The book is driven by new archival research and will have a multi-layered impact, changing our perception of Sontag as a post-Cold War public intellectual as well as interrogating key concepts in the Humanities.Key Features Original study of Susan Sontag's contribution to the development of critical thoughtOpens new avenues for research in the expanding field of new modernist studies and in the field of criticismDiscusses Sontag's collaboration with Walter Benjamin which reopens the question of the author and encourages an understanding of this concept from a psychoanalytic perspective, as a transgenerational phenomenonIncludes a discussion of the role of the American avant-garde in Sontag's abandonment of philosophy and in her turn to a pioneering, more theoretical literary criticism"

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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