Description |
xi, 264 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
Series |
Gender and culture.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction: unextinguished: Susan Sontag's work in progress / Barbara Ching and Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor -- Some notes on "Notes on camp" / Terry Castle -- Absolute seriousness: Susan Sontag in American popular culture / Dana Heller -- "Not even a New Yorker": Susan Sontag in America / Barbara Ching -- Romances of community in Sontag's later fiction / Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor -- Sontag, modernity, and cinema: women and an aesthetics of silence, 1960-1980 / E. Ann Kaplan -- Sontag on theater / Julia Walker -- The "counterculture" in quotation marks: Sontag and Marcuse on the work of revolution / Craig J. Peariso -- A way of feeling is a way of seeing: Sontag and the visual arts / Leslie Luebbers -- Metaphors kill: "Against interpretation" and the illness books / Jay Prosser -- The posthumous life of Susan Sontag / Nancy K. Miller -- In summa: the latter essays: an appreciation / Sohnya Sayres -- Susan Sontag, cosmophage / Wayne Koestenbaum. |
Subject |
Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Women authors, American -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Added Author |
Ching, Barbara, 1958- editor.
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Wagner-Lawlor, Jennifer A., editor.
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ISBN |
9780231149167 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0231149166 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780231149174 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0231149174 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780231520454 (e-book) |
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023152045X (e-book) |
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