The Scandal of Susan Sontag /

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

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 ran...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Ann Kaplan, E.,
Castle, Terry,
Ching, Barbara,
Koestenbaum, Wayne,
Luebbers, Leslie,
Miller, Nancy K.,
Peariso, Craig J.,
Prosser, Jay,
Sayres, Sohnya,
Wagner- Lawlor, Jennifer A.,
Walker, Julia A.,
HerausgeberIn:
Ching, Barbara,
Wagner-Lawlor, Jennifer,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Gender and Culture Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 9 illus.
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Table of 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

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