Understanding Susan Sontag

A comprehensive account of the author's entire career through the lens of her recently published diaries

About the author

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.

Summary

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 a lens through which to reevaluate classic texts, providing a renewed sense of her importance and impact.

Product details

• Authors: Carl Rollyson
• Publisher: The University of South Carolina Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781643360911
• ISBN: 978-1-64336-091-1
• No. of pages: 152
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 226 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 227 g
• Series: Understanding Contemporary Ame; Understanding Contemporary American Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies