The scandal of Susan Sontag / edited by Barbara Ching and Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor.

Other author Ching, Barbara, 1958-
Other author Wagner-Lawlor, Jennifer A.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Columbia University Press, ©2009.
Descriptionxi, 264 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesGender and culture
Gender and culture. ^A236983
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009033601
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