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Sontag: Her Life

Benjamin Moser

The definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century’s most towering figures - her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her private face.

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At the Same Time

Susan Sontag

Contains sixteen essays. Reflecting on literature, photography and art, post 9/11 America and political activism, this title includes these essays that encompass the themes that dominated the author’s life and…

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The Volcano Lover: A Romance

Susan Sontag

A historical romance, Sontag’s book is based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson in the final decades of the eighteenth century. Passionately examining…

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In America

Susan Sontag

A story inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland’s most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karol Chlapowski, her fifteen-year-old son, Rudolf, the young…

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Debriefing: Collected Stories

Susan Sontag

From one of today’s most powerful intellectuals comes a volume containing all of her shorter fiction, ranging from allegory to parable to autobiography which shows her wrestling with problems not…

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Styles of Radical Will

Susan Sontag

A collection of essays that contains some of the important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including the classics The Aesthetics of Silence , an account of language, thought…

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Death Kit

Susan Sontag

A narrative of the suffering of Dalton ‘Diddy’ Harron, told through his own observations. He works in advertising for a microscope manufacturer, is thirty-three and divorced and a month ago…

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Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays

Susan Sontag

Brings together the author’s important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. This title explores some of the most controversial artists and thinkers of our time, including her polemic against Hitler’s…

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Notes on Camp

Susan Sontag

Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

‘The ultimate Camp statement- it’s good…

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Stories: Collected Stories

Susan Sontag

Complete collected stories from one of the most brilliant & influential writers of the twentieth century

Susan Sontag is most often remembered as a brilliant essayist - inquisitive, analytical, fearlessly…

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Regarding the Pain of Others

Susan Sontag

Features an analysis of our numbed response to images of horror. This title alters our thinking about the uses and meanings of images, and about the nature of war, the…

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Against Interpretation and Other Essays

Susan Sontag

Argues that modern cultural conditions have given way to a critical approach to aesthetics.

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As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964-1980

Susan Sontag

Providing an insight into the mind of one of the leading intellectuals of the modern age, this title chronicles the cultural, moral, and political journeys of this renowned critic and…

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On Women

Susan Sontag

On Women brings together Susan Sontag's most fearless and incisive writing on women, a crucial aspect of her work that has not until now received the attention it deserves

For…

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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

Susan Sontag

In these groundbreaking studies, Sontag strips away the myths that surround the two most stigmatized diseases of our time

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On Women

Susan Sontag

On Women brings together for the first time Susan Sontag's most incisive and direct writing on womanhood

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Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag

Sigrid Nunez

A biographical portrait by the novelist who lived with Sontag’s son for several years in the seventies and knew her well in her last years.

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Summer in Baden-Baden (Faber Editions)

Leonid Tsypkin

Join Dostoevsky on his tumultuous honeymoon in this hypnotic cult classic , introduced by Susan Sontag.

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Debriefing: Collected Stories

Susan Sontag

From one of today’s most powerful intellectuals comes a volume containing all of her shorter fiction, ranging from allegory to parable to autobiography which shows her wrestling with problems not…

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Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963

Susan Sontag

A selection from Susan Sontag’s diaries (from 1947-1963) that takes us from early adolescence though to when Sontag was in her early thirties. It is an honest self-portrait which is…

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The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects

Marshall McLuhan,Marshall McLuhan,Susan Sontag,Bruno Munari

Written by the author who is known for coining the term ‘Global Village’, this title illustrates his theories that force us to question how modes of communication have shaped society.

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Portraits in Life and Death

Peter Hujar

A new edition of the cult classic photography book by the legendary Peter Hujar, featuring a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser

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Against Interpretation: And Other Essays

Susan Sontag,Sontag

A selection of writings about the arts and contemporary culture. Containing a title essay, ‘On Style’ and the famous ‘Notes on Camp’, this book includes discussion of such figures as…

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Illness as a Metaphor: AIDS and Its Metaphors

Sontag

A discussion of the ways in which illness is regarded pays particular attention to fantasies that pertain to cancer and AIDS.

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Sontag

Benjamin Moser

No writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. This book explores the insecurity behind the formidable public face: the relationships, the struggles with her sexuality…

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Susan Sontag

Jerome Boyd Maunsell

A new biography, which assesses the astonishing scope and offers captivating insight into the life and work of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth-century, Susan Sontag.

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Notes on Sontag

Phillip Lopate

Setting out from middle-class California to invent herself as a European-style intellectual, Sontag raised the bar of critical discourse and offered up a model of a freethinking, imaginative, and sensual…

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Yosemite Trail Discovered

Marie Sontag

Join sixteen-year-old Daniel Whitcomb as he juggles a growing relationship with Virginia Reed, one of the survivors of the Donner Party, helps his Miwok friend learn how to read and…

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101 Group Theory for Chemists

Christoph Sontag

This booklet is a practical guide to apply the concepts of group theory to problems in chemistry - such as MO theory, spectroscopy and crystallography. The reader should learn by…

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The Bronze Dagger and The Stolen Jewels

Marie Sontag

Twelve-year-old Samsuluna (Sam) needs to find his uncle. There's only one problem. His uncle, the one who gave him his bronze dagger, lives 800 miles away. With Sam's mother and…

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The Bronze Dagger and The Stolen Jewels

Marie Sontag

Twelve-year-old Samsuluna (Sam) needs to find his uncle. There's only one problem. His uncle, the one who gave him his bronze dagger, lives 800 miles away. With Sam's mother and…

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Woerterbucher als Propagandamittel im Nationalsozialismus

Katja Sontag

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Linguistik, Note: 2,0, Rheinisch-Westfalische Technische Hochschule Aachen (Institut fur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Lexikographie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Veranderungen im Sprachgebrauch…

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Underground Scouts

Marie Sontag

Warsaw, PolandSeptember 8, 1939 Their scoutmaster's chair squeaked as he shifted his weight. "What I am about to ask from all of you is a personal sacrifice on behalf of…

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Second Generation

Eleanor Sontag

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Under the Sign of Saturn Lib/E: Essays

Susan Sontag

Brings together the author’s important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. This title explores some of the most controversial artists and thinkers of our time, including her polemic against Hitler’s…

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Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays

Susan Sontag

Brings together the author’s important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. This title explores some of the most controversial artists and thinkers of our time, including her polemic against Hitler’s…

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Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays

Susan Sontag

Brings together the author’s important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. This title explores some of the most controversial artists and thinkers of our time, including her polemic against Hitler’s…

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The World Would Not Allow…(?)

Henry Sontag

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California Trail Discovered

Marie Sontag

A week after the housefire, Daniel sifted through the scorched remains of his home in search of something to salvage. Kicking his parents’ twisted metal bedframe, he glanced at Pastor…

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California Trail Discovered

Marie Sontag

A week after the housefire, Daniel sifted through the scorched remains of his home in search of something to salvage. Kicking his parents’ twisted metal bedframe, he glanced at Pastor…

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The Acts of Trinity

Frederick Sontag

Asking the question, What is distinctive about the action of any religion’s claimed disciple? , this book delves into the fact that all religious leaders and followers utter words of…

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2001: A Spiritual Odyssey

Frederick Sontag

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A Kierkegaard Handbook

Frederick Sontag

Fredrick Sontag has created a remarkable work on Soren Kierkegaard. He combines a brief biography, an introduction to Kierkegaard’s writings plus interpretations of the writings. This overview offers a framework…

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Lock-In

Holger Sontag

Die Menschheit hat sich verandert. Persoenliche KIs, die jeder in seinem Kopf tragt unterstutzen das tagliche Leben und koennen sogar Kontrolle uber den Trager ubernehmen. Sie helfen nicht nur bei…

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Reality and Illusion in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire: An Analysis of Frequent Symbols

Ilona Sontag

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,7, RWTH Aachen University (Institut fur Anglistik I), course: Hauptseminar American Drama , language: English, abstract…

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Where the Stress Falls Lib/E: Essays

Susan Sontag

This collection includes more than forty essays from the last two decades, illustrating a deeply-felt, kaleidoscopic array of interests, passions, observations and ideas. It records the writer’s urgent engagement with…

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