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Against Interpretation: And Other Essays
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 Satre, Simone Weil, Genet, Brecht, Beckett,...
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The Volcano Lover: A Romance
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 the shape of Western civilization since the...
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Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963
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 also a revealing account of an artist and critic...
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Stories: Collected Stories
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Styles of Radical Will
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 and consciousness, and Trip to Hanoi ,...
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Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Argues that modern cultural conditions have given way to a critical approach to aesthetics.
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Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays
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 favourite film-maker, Leni...
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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Reveals that the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding...
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On Photography
Features a critique of photography that asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. This title examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of...
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Notes on Camp
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Debriefing: Collected Stories
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 assimilable to the essay, her more...
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Where the Stress Falls
Includes ardent pieces on writers from the author's own private canon - Machado de Assis, Barthes, W G Sebald, Borges, Tsvetaeva and Elizabeth Hardwick. This work shares her passions for film, dance, photography, painting, opera...
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At the Same Time
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 work, revealing why...
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A Roland Barthes Reader
An introduction to the thinking of the French intellectual, Roland Barthes, as applied to such diverse topics as Gide, Garbo, striptease, photography and the Eiffel Tower. The pieces in this collection were written over a period...
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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Reveals that the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding...
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Styles of Radical Will
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 and consciousness, and Trip to Hanoi ,...
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Styles of Radical Will
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 and consciousness, and Trip to Hanoi ,...
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Where the Stress Falls: Essays
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 some of the...
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The Benefactor
Leads us on a kind of psychic Grand Tour, in which a latter-day Candide named Hippolyte's violently imaginative dream life becomes indistinguishable from his surprising experiences in the 'real world'.
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Death Kit
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 tried to commit suicide.
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Debriefing: Collected Stories
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 assimilable to the essay, her more...
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As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
A second volume of journals shares intimate reflections on the writer's artistic and political development during a trip to Hanoi at the peak of the Vietnam War and throughout her film-making years in Sweden before the dawn of the...
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Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
This first of three volumes of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks presents a constantly and utterly surprising record of a great mind in incubation. Reborn is a kaleidoscopic self-portrait of one of America's greatest writers...
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A Susan Sontag Reader
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Regarding the Pain of Others
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 limits of sympathy, and the obligations of conscience.
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On Photography
Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c1977.
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In America
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 journalist and future...
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As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964-1980
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 artist at the height of her powers.
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Regarding the Pain of Others
An examination of the role of imagery in modern culture considers how depictions of violence, from wartime photographs to footage of the September 11 attacks, are used and how they impact the world.
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Susan Sontag: Essays of the 1960s & 70s (LOA #246): Against Interpretation / Styles of Radical Will / On Photography / Illness as Metaphor / Uncollected Essays
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Under the Glacier
At the beginning of this otherworldly novel, the Bishop of Iceland dispatches a young emissary to investigate certain charges against a pastor, who, among other things, appears to have given up burying the dead. On arrival, the...
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Death Kit
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 tried to commit suicide.
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Where the Stress Falls
Two decades of indispensable work by a great American writer. Thirty-five years after her first collection of essays, Sontag has chosen more than 40 longer and shorter pieces that illustrate a deeply felt, kaleidoscopic array of...
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The Volcano Lover: A Romance
In 1772, Naples is home to The Cavaliere - the British ambassador and man of wealth. When his nephew's former mistress comes into his life, he is swept away by overwhelming passion. By the author of Illness as Metaphor .
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At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
At the Same Time gathers 16 essays and addresses written in the last years of Sontag's life, when her work was being honored on the international stage, that reflect on the personally liberating nature of literature, her deepest...
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The Benefactor
Leads us on a kind of psychic Grand Tour, in which a latter-day Candide named Hippolyte's violently imaginative dream life becomes indistinguishable from his surprising experiences in the 'real world'.
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I, Etcetera
A collection of eight short stories, written over the course of ten years, exploring the terrain of modern urban life. The narratives are seamed with many of the themes of Sontag's essays - the nature of knowing, and our...
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Alice in Bed: A Play in Eight Scenes
A dramatic fantasy based on the anguished life of Alice James (1848-92), the sister of William and Henry James. She merges imaginatively with Lewis Carroll's Alice at a tea-party at which Alice is counselled by Emily Dickinson,...
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In America
In 1876, a group of Poles led by Maryna Zalezowska, Poland's greatest actress, travels to California to found a utopian commune. In America is a big, juicy, surprising book about a woman's search for self-transformation, about...
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Styles of Radical Will
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 and consciousness, and Trip to Hanoi ,...
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Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
This first of three volumes of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks presents a constantly and utterly surprising record of a great mind in incubation. Reborn is a kaleidoscopic self-portrait of one of America's greatest writers...
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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors Lib/E
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Against Interpretation, and Other Essays Lib/E
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Against Interpretation, and Other Essays
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Against Interpretation, and Other Essays
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Styles of Radical Will Lib/E
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 and consciousness, and Trip to Hanoi ,...
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Where the Stress Falls Lib/E: Essays
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 some of the...
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Where the Stress Falls: Essays
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 some of the...
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