The Scandal of Susan

Klappentext Susan Sontag (1933-2004) spoke of the promiscuity of art and literature-the willingness of great artists and writers to challenge and provoke! to scandalize a spectator or reader with the critical frankness! complexity! and sometimes even the beauty of their work. Sontag's life and work were no less promiscuous. She wrote deeply and engagingly about a limitless range of subjects-theater! sex! politics! novels! torture! illness-and courted celebrity and controversy both publicly and privately. Throughout her career! she not only earned adulation but also provoked scorn. Her living was the embodiment of scandal. In this collection! Terry Castle! Nancy K. Miller! Wayne Koestenbaum! E. Ann Kaplan! and other leading scholars confront Sontag's groundbreaking life and works anew. Against Interpretation; "Notes on Camp;" Letter from Hanoi; On Photography; Illness as Metaphor; I! Etcetera; and The Volcano Lover-these works form the center of essays no less passionate and imaginative than Sontag herself.

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• Assisted by: Barbara Ching (Editor), Jennifer A. Wagner-lawlor (Editor), Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor (Editor), Jennifer (The Pennsylvania State University) Wagner-Lawlor (Editor), Ching Barbara (Editor), Wagner-Lawlor Jennifer (Editor)
• Authors: Barbara Ching, Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor, Jennifer A. Wagner-lawlor
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 03.12.2009
• Subject: Education and learning; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies
• EAN: 9780231149174
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14917-4
• Pages: 280
• Dimensions (packing): 15.3 x 22.7 x 1.3 cm
• Series: Columbia University Press, Gender and Culture Series, Gender and Culture, Gender and Culture Series, Gender & Culture (COUP), Gender & Culture
• Subjects: USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, 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 CRITICISM / Novel as Form