Interpreting Susan Sontags Essays - Radical Contemplative

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 in France and Germany, which includes Hannah Arendt, Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, and Walter Benjamin.

List of contents

Introduction: "Sontag, the Essay Form, and Modernism"
Chapter One: "Sontag after Freud: The Genesis of ‘Against Interpretation’"
Chapter Two: "Sontag, Bloom, and the Autonomy of the Aesthetic"
Chapter Three: "Sontag’s Film Criticism: Bresson, Riefenstahl, Godard"
Chapter Four: "On the (Violence of the) Photographic Image"
Chapter Five: "Sontag and Illness Degree Zero"
Chapter Six: "Crisis in the Polis: Sontag, Arendt, and the Nature of Eulogy"
Chapter Seven: "Sontag and Derrida after 9/11/01: American Democracy (and Beyond)"

About the author

Dr. Mark K. Fulk is an associate professor of English and Women and Gender Studies at SUNY Buffalo State. He is the author of one other book, Understanding May Sarton (2001), as well as articles and reviews on many topics including queer theory, Jane Austen, John Dryden, Romantic Landscape Poetry, and John Milton. He is also an Appalachian poet. He was executive president for The Aphra Behn Society for Women in the Arts, 1660-1830. He is a contemplative, affiliated with the Benedictine confraternity out of St. Gregory’s Abbey.

Summary

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 in France and Germany, which includes Hannah Arendt, Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, and Walter Benjamin.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Fulk, Fulk Mark
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2023
• EAN: 9780367759551
• ISBN: 978-0-367-75955-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Radicalism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000