Susan Sontag''s Tangential Classics

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 whom the classical tradition emerges through traces, connections, and references in a broader context.

List of contents

• Introduction: Sontag's Classics, Barely There, Somewhere


• 1: Sontag's Classical World: From Against Interpretation to The Volcano Lover


• 2: The Diaries and the Art of the Aphorism


• 3: Night-Sides: Sontag and Sophocles on Bodily Suffering


• 4: Art and the Nourishment of Consciousness: Sontag in Plato's and Kafka's Cave


• 5: The Morality of Style: Sontag and Seneca


• 6: Against Immersion


• 7: The Writhing Laocoön: Susan Sontag and the Aesthetics of Suffering


• 8: Fear of Flaying: Sontag, Language, Animality


• 9: The Dream Machine: Plato and Lucretius


• Epilogue: Sontag and the Archaeology of a Tangential Classics

About the author

Laura Jansen is Associate Professor (Reader) of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Bristol. She is General Editor of Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing (Bloomsbury), the author of Borges' Classics (Cambridge, 2018), and editor of The Roman Paratext (Cambridge, 2014), and Anne Carson/Antiquity (Bloomsbury, 2022).

Summary

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 whom the classical tradition emerges through traces, connections, and references in a broader context.

Product details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.03.2025
• EAN: 9780192870698
• ISBN: 978-0-19-287069-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Classical Presences
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form