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Susan Sontag
Argues that modern cultural conditions have given way to a critical approach to aesthetics.
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A collection of essays that contains some of the important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including the classics The Aesthetics of Silence , an account of language, thought…
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Providing an insight into the mind of one of the leading intellectuals of the modern age, this title chronicles the cultural, moral, and political journeys of this renowned critic and…
Features an analysis of our numbed response to images of horror. This title alters our thinking about the uses and meanings of images, and about the nature of war, the…
On Women brings together Susan Sontag's most fearless and incisive writing on women, a crucial aspect of her work that has not until now received the attention it deserves
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Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics examines the role the Greco-Roman classics play in Susan Sontag's intellectual and literary achievement. The collected chapters consider Sontag as a case of a thinker in…
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
A new edition of Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography--its problems, politics, and possibilities.
"To photograph is to appropriate the…
"A reissue of Susan Sontag's classic first collection, featuring some of her most beloved writing-on art, life, camp, and criticism-that cemented her legacy as one of the brightest thinkers of…
On Women brings together for the first time Susan Sontag's most incisive and direct writing on womanhood
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Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry
‘The ultimate Camp statement- it’s good…
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A narrative of the suffering of Dalton ‘Diddy’ Harron, told through his own observations. He works in advertising for a microscope manufacturer, is thirty-three and divorced and a month ago…
Features a critique of photography that asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. This title examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent…
Leonid Tsypkin
Join Dostoevsky on his tumultuous honeymoon in this hypnotic cult classic, introduced by Susan Sontag.
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Brings together the author’s important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. This title explores some of the most controversial artists and thinkers of our time, including her polemic against Hitler’s…
In these groundbreaking studies, Sontag strips away the myths that surround the two most stigmatized diseases of our time
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A historical romance, Sontag’s book is based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson in the final decades of the eighteenth century. Passionately examining…
Susan Sontag occupies a special place in Modern American letters. She has become our most important critic, while her brilliant novels and short fiction are, at long last, getting the…
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A story inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland’s most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karol Chlapowski, her fifteen-year-old son, Rudolf, the young…
Complete collected stories from one of the most brilliant & influential writers of the twentieth century
Susan Sontag is most often remembered as a brilliant essayist - inquisitive, analytical, fearlessly…
Contains sixteen essays. Reflecting on literature, photography and art, post 9/11 America and political activism, this title includes these essays that encompass the themes that dominated the author’s life and…
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He is seated in front of a large window, listening to a well-known podcast host. The story transports him back seventy-six years, to 1948. He recalls his days in Los…
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Jerome Boyd Maunsell
A new biography, which assesses the astonishing scope and offers captivating insight into the life and work of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth-century, Susan Sontag.
Carl Rollyson
With the publication of Susan Sontag’s diaries, the development of her career can now be evaluated in a more genetic sense. In Understanding Susan Sontag, Carl Rollyson not only provides…
In Understanding Susan Sontag, Carl Rollyson not only provides an introduction to her essays, novels, plays, films, diaries, and uncollected work, since the publication of her diaries, he now has…
Daniel Schreiber
Susan Sontag (1933-2004) was one of America’s first celebrity intellectuals. In the first biography to be published since her death, Daniel Schreiber portrays a glamorous woman full of contradictions and…
A collection of interviews that cover the period from 1967 through 1993. Giving attention to Sontag’s education and the development of her aesthetic and moral temperament, they cover Sontag’s rich…
"A new collection of Susan Sontag's essays about women, edited by David Rieff and introduced by Merve Emre"--
In this collection, Terry Castle, Nancy K. Miller, Wayne Koestenbaum, E. Ann Kaplan, and other leading scholars confront Susan Sontag’s groundbreaking life and works anew.
Susan Sontag (1933-2004) spoke of the promiscuity of art and literature& mdash;the willingness of great artists and writers to scandalize their spectators through critical frankness, complexity, and beauty. Sontag’s life…
Sigrid Nunez
A biographical portrait by the novelist who lived with Sontag’s son for several years in the seventies and knew her well in her last years.
Peter Hujar
A new edition of the cult classic photography book by the legendary Peter Hujar, featuring a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser
Sohnya Sayres
First published in 1990, this is the first book-length study of Susan Sontag: essayist and analyst if culture, author of ‘Notes on Camp’ and Illness as Metaphor, novelist, reviewer, and…
Nico Epstein
On Photography brought photographic theory into the university classroom with its staunch defense of the medium as art and inspired a new wave of Marxist Criticism in the field. The…
Mark Fulk
This book offers its readers a scholarly examination of Sontag's essays within the context of philosophy and aesthetics. This study constructs a dialogue between her works and their philosophical counterparts…
A study of the American essayist and literary critic, Susan Sontag, which explores the foundations and direction of her work and examines in turn her achievements as a reviewer, film-maker…
Carl Rollyson,Lisa Paddock
This first biography of Susan Sontag (1933-2004) is now fully revised and updated, providing an even more intimate portrayal of the influential writer’s life and career. The authors base this…
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A selection from Susan Sontag’s diaries (from 1947-1963) that takes us from early adolescence though to when Sontag was in her early thirties. It is an honest self-portrait which is…
Walter Benjamin
Classic collection of Walter Benjamin’s essay, including some of his most celebrated essays
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A selection of writings about the arts and contemporary culture. Containing a title essay, ‘On Style’ and the famous ‘Notes on Camp’, this book includes discussion of such figures as…
Taitulo original: Regarding the pain of others –Title page verso.
A dramatic fantasy based on the anguished life of Alice James (1848-92), the sister of William and Henry James. She merges imaginatively with Lewis Carroll’s Alice at a tea-party at…
Leads us on a kind of psychic Grand Tour, in which a latter-day Candide named Hippolyte’s violently imaginative dream life becomes indistinguishable from his surprising experiences in the ‘real world’.
In 1876, a group of Poles led by Maryna Zalezowska, Poland’s greatest actress, travels to California to found a utopian commune. In America is a big, juicy, surprising book about…
In 1772, Naples is home to The Cavaliere - the British ambassador and man of wealth. When his nephew’s former mistress comes into his life, he is swept away by…
A collection of essays on the relationship between moral and aesthetic ideas. The book brings together some of Sontag’s best critical writing of the 1970s, on subjects ranging from Walter…
A collection of eight short stories, written over the course of ten years, exploring the terrain of modern urban life. The narratives are seamed with many of the themes of…
