Notes on Sontag /
Notes on Sontag is a frank, witty, and entertaining reflection on the work, influence, and personality of one of the "foremost interpreters of ... our recent contemporary moment." Adopting Sontag's favorite form, a set of brief essays or notes that circle around a topic from different...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©2009.
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| Series: | Writers on writers.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- The judgment
- Against interpretation
- Early memories of Sontag
- Politics and personae
- Bêtes noires
- Crisis as starting point
- Are the arts progressive?
- The stylistics of demystification
- The aphoristic essay
- The film essays
- My favorite book of hers
- Readers feeling stupid
- The benefactor
- Humor and seriousness
- Death kit
- Shallow America
- The volcano lover
- Performance, character, and theatre
- Essay form, transgression, innovation
- Don't get personal
- Later memories of Sontag
- Writings on photography
- More on politics
- On 9/11 and television
- Greatness besieger
- Illness and death.
