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Against Interpretation And Other Essays by Susan Sontag
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | 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
As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964-1980 by Susan Sontag
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Volume II of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks from 1964-1980.Providing a unique insight into the mind of one of the leading intellectuals of the modern age, Susan Sontag's As Conscious is Harnessed to Fleshchronicles the cultural, moral, and political journeys of this renowned critic and artist at ...Show more
As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964-1980 by Susan Sontag
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Category: Biography & Memoir
This, the second of three volumes of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks, begins where the first volume left off, in the middle of the 1960s. It traces and documents Sontag's evolution from fledgling participant in the artistic and intellectual world of New York City to world-renowned critic and domin ...Show more
At the Same Time by Susan Sontag
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
The sixteen essays gathered here represent the last pieces written by Susan Sontag in the years before her death in 2004. Reflecting on literature, photography and art, post-9/11 America and political activism, these essays encompass the themes that dominated Sontag's life and work, revealing why she re ...Show more
Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | 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: Culture Ideas Politics | 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.
On Photography by Susan Sontag
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject. Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere, and the 'insatiability of the photographing eye' ha ...Show more
On Women: A New Collection of Feminist Essays from the Influential Writer, Activist and Critic, Susan Sontag by Susan Sontag
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
For the first time, On Women brings together Susan Sontag's most incisive and direct writing on womanhood. A brilliant new collection of essays on the oppression of women and the tools necessary for liberation from highly-acclaimed author Susan Sontag. Often regarded as one of the most influential write ...Show more
On Women: A new collection of feminist essays from the influential writer, activist and critic, Susan Sontag by Susan Sontag
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
For the most part written in the 1970s during the height of second-wave feminism, Sontag's essays are strikingly relevant to our contemporary conversations. At times powerfully in sync and at others powerfully at odds with them, they are always characteristically original in their examinations of the 'b ...Show more
Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
From Goya's Disasters of War to news footage and photographs of the conflicts in Vietnam, Rwanda and Bosnia, pictures have been charged with inspiring dissent, fostering violence or instilling apathy in us, the viewer. Regarding the Pain of Others will alter our thinking not only about the uses and mean ...Show more
Sontag on Film by Susan Sontag
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Category: Film Theatre
Widely regarded as one of America's most important contemporary thinkers, Susan Sontag had a particular gift for reflecting on the meaning and influence of the visual, and "On Photography" became a seminal work for all those concerned with the interplay of images with the world. Now, more than thirty ye ...Show more
Stories by Susan Sontag
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Category: Fiction
'Magnificent... Her famous seriousness pervades throughout... What's striking is the astonishing scope, potential and possibility Sontag saw in short fiction' Financial Times The complete collected short stories of Susan Sontag, one of the most brilliant and influential writers of the twentieth century ...Show more