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The Scandal of Susan Sontag
Barbara Ching (Ed.)
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Description for The Scandal of Susan Sontag
Paperback. Editor(s): Ching, Barbara; Wagner-Lawlor, Jennifer A. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 280 pages, 9 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 454.
Susan Sontag (1933-2004) spoke of the promiscuity of art and literature--the willingness of great artists and writers to scandalize their spectators through critical frankness, complexity, and beauty. Sontag's life and thought were no less promiscuous. She wrote deeply and engagingly about a range of subjects--theater, sex, politics, novels, torture, and 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 revisit Sontag's groundbreaking life ... Read more
Susan Sontag (1933-2004) spoke of the promiscuity of art and literature--the willingness of great artists and writers to scandalize their spectators through critical frankness, complexity, and beauty. Sontag's life and thought were no less promiscuous. She wrote deeply and engagingly about a range of subjects--theater, sex, politics, novels, torture, and 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 revisit Sontag's groundbreaking life ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Series
Gender and Culture Series
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231149174
SKU
V9780231149174
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About Barbara Ching (Ed.)
Barbara Ching is an associate professor of English at the University of Memphis. She is the author of Wrong's What I Do Best: Hard Country Music and Contemporary Culture and the coeditor of Knowing Your Place: Rural Identity and Cultural Hierarchy. Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor is associate professor of women's studies and English at Penn State University. She is the ... Read more
Reviews for The Scandal of Susan Sontag
[The Scandal of Susan Sontag] yields new insights on a most complex sensibility... with sophisticated admiration... [and] the requisite doses of wit. Publishers Weekly An exhilarating read that succeeds in constructing a complex and multi-faceted portrait of the woman and her ideas, which remain as vital and thought-provoking as ever.The West AustralianThe West Australian The West Australian The Scandal of ... Read more