The Scandal of Susan Sontag
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (959 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0231149174 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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"what is still unrevealed" according to epic phlegm Hooha. I was not deeply involved in thinking about Susan Sontag in the twentieth century. Something about Walter Kaufmann's English translation of Nietzsche's The Gay Science in 197what is still unrevealed epic phlegm Hooha I was not deeply involved in thinking about Susan Sontag in the twentieth century. Something about Walter Kaufmann's English translation of Nietzsche's The Gay Science in 1974 made me think Sontag's Notes on Camp might involve the same kind of snappy whiplash upper crustedness. By the time Walter Kaufmann died, on September 4, 1980, I had to look for anyone writing in English who would suffer as I had as a Freudian expert in the humor of the Vietnam war. The analysis by Terry Castle, Some Notes on "Notes on Camp" (pp. 21-31), mentioning a host of intell. made me think Sontag's Notes on Camp might involve the same kind of snappy whiplash upper crustedness. By the time Walter Kaufmann died, on September what is still unrevealed epic phlegm Hooha I was not deeply involved in thinking about Susan Sontag in the twentieth century. Something about Walter Kaufmann's English translation of Nietzsche's The Gay Science in 1974 made me think Sontag's Notes on Camp might involve the same kind of snappy whiplash upper crustedness. By the time Walter Kaufmann died, on September 4, 1980, I had to look for anyone writing in English who would suffer as I had as a Freudian expert in the humor of the Vietnam war. The analysis by Terry Castle, Some Notes on "Notes on Camp" (pp. 21-31), mentioning a host of intell. , 1980, I had to look for anyone writing in English who would suffer as I had as a Freudian expert in the humor of the Vietnam war. The analysis by Terry Castle, Some Notes on "Notes on Camp" (pp. 21-what is still unrevealed I was not deeply involved in thinking about Susan Sontag in the twentieth century. Something about Walter Kaufmann's English translation of Nietzsche's The Gay Science in 197what is still unrevealed epic phlegm Hooha I was not deeply involved in thinking about Susan Sontag in the twentieth century. Something about Walter Kaufmann's English translation of Nietzsche's The Gay Science in 1974 made me think Sontag's Notes on Camp might involve the same kind of snappy whiplash upper crustedness. By the time Walter Kaufmann died, on September 4, 1980, I had to look for anyone writing in English who would suffer as I had as a Freudian expert in the humor of the Vietnam war. The analysis by Terry Castle, Some Notes on "Notes on Camp" (pp. 21-31), mentioning a host of intell. made me think Sontag's Notes on Camp might involve the same kind of snappy whiplash upper crustedness. By the time Walter Kaufmann died, on September what is still unrevealed epic phlegm Hooha I was not deeply involved in thinking about Susan Sontag in the twentieth century. Something about Walter Kaufmann's English translation of Nietzsche's The Gay Science in 1974 made me think Sontag's Notes on Camp might involve the same kind of snappy whiplash upper crustedness. By the time Walter Kaufmann died, on September 4, 1980, I had to look for anyone writing in English who would suffer as I had as a Freudian expert in the humor of the Vietnam war. The analysis by Terry Castle, Some Notes on "Notes on Camp" (pp. 21-31), mentioning a host of intell. , 1980, I had to look for anyone writing in English who would suffer as I had as a Freudian expert in the humor of the Vietnam war. The analysis by Terry Castle, Some Notes on "Notes on Camp" (pp. 21-31), mentioning a host of intell. 1), mentioning a host of intell
Throughout her career, she not only earned adulation but also provoked scorn. She wrote deeply and engagingly about a range of subjectstheater, sex, politics, novels, torture, and illnessand courted celebrity and controversy both publicly and privately. Against Interpretation, "Notes on Camp," Letter from Hanoi, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, I, Etcetera, and The Volcano Loverthese works form the center of essays no less passionate and imaginative than Sontag herself. Sontag's life and thought were no less promiscuous. 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. 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 popul
. Why shouldn't it? It is an attempt at interpreting the author who, with much provocative fanfare, came to disown interpretation. The contributors accomplish this with sophisticated admiration, usually with originality and, with the requisite doses of wit to deconstruct the chronicler of camp. Like its subject, this assessment comes with the baggage of ultra-self-consciousness and a dash of self-importance. Overall, this appreciation—edited by two associate professors of English (Ching at the University of Memphis, Wagner-Lawlor at Penn State)—yields new insights on a most complex sensibility. All rights reserved. 9 photos. From Publishers Weekly This volume of essays by a dozen contributors (most notably Wayne Koestenbaum) examines a number of key works and aspects of Sontag's career—nearly five decades worth of gender-bending and upsetting the social applecart.