Understanding Susan Sontag

Informationen zum Autor Carl Rollyson , professor of journalism at Baruch College, the City University of New York, is the author of A Real American Character: The Life of Walter Brennan; A Private Life of Michael Foot; Amy Lowell Anew: A Biography; American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath; Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews; Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress; Lillian Hellman: Her Life and Legend; Beautiful Exile: The Life of Martha Gellhorn; Norman Mailer: The Last Romantic; and three studies of biography, A Higher Form of Cannibalism? Adventures in the Art and Politics of Biography, Biography: A User's Guide, and Confessions of a Serial Biographer. Klappentext 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 an introduction to her essays, novels, plays, films, and diaries, he now has a lens through which to reevaluate classic texts, providing a renewed sense of her importance and impact. Zusammenfassung 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 an introduction to her essays! novels! plays! films! and diaries! he now has a lens through which to reevaluate classic texts! providing a renewed sense of her importance and impact.

Product details

• Authors: Carl Rollyson, Carl E. Rollyson
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9781611176803
• ISBN: 978-1-61117-680-3
• No. of pages: 152
• Series: Understanding Contemporary Ame; Understanding Contemporary American Literature; Understanding Contemporary Ame; Understanding Contemporary American Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies