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Susan Sontag
Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c1977.
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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…
Mark Fulk
This book offers its readers a scholarly examination of Sontag's essays within the context of philosophy and aesthetics. This study constructs a dialogue between her works and their philosophical counterparts…
Nico Epstein
On Photography brought photographic theory into the university classroom with its staunch defense of the medium as art and inspired a new wave of Marxist Criticism in the field. The…
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Sohnya Sayres
A study of the American essayist and literary critic, Susan Sontag, which explores the foundations and direction of her work and examines in turn her achievements as a reviewer, film-maker…
Carl Rollyson,Lisa Paddock
This first biography of Susan Sontag (1933-2004) is now fully revised and updated, providing an even more intimate portrayal of the influential writer’s life and career. The authors base this…
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A collection of essays on the relationship between moral and aesthetic ideas. The book brings together some of Sontag’s best critical writing of the 1970s, on subjects ranging from Walter…
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A discussion of the ways in which illness is regarded pays particular attention to fantasies that pertain to cancer and AIDS.
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…
Carl Rollyson
This volume represents more than twenty-five years of writing about female icons and biography. Rollyson provides the bits and pieces that resulted not only in his biography of Marilyn Monroe…
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Mena Mitrano
This adventurous critical inquiry into Sontag’s archive illuminates the intimate link between modernism and theory while also providing a fascinating reintroduction to these two movements and concepts.
This work catalogues the works of one of America’s most prolific and important 20th century authors. This volume is an exhaustive collection that includes her novels, essays, reviews, films and…
This book offers its readers a scholarly examination of Sontag’s essays within the context of philosophy and aesthetics. This study constructs a dialogue between her works and their philosophical counterparts…
Jonathan Cott
Susan Sontag, one of the most internationally renowned and controversial intellectuals of the latter half of the twentieth century, still provokes. In 1979, Jonathan Cott, of Rolling Stone magazine, interviewed…
Sibyl Kempson
Sibyl Kempson’s Let Us Know Praise Susan Sontag is an irrational musical contemplation of collision of art and journalism.
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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Stephan Isernhagen
Die US-Amerikanerin Susan Sontag (1933-2004) gilt heute als Ikone, als streitbare Intellektuelle in der Tradition Zolas und Voltaires. Doch wie wurde sie zur schillernden und ebenso umstrittenen Figur des New…
The first book to survey the broad range of Ms. Sontag’s work, including full discussions of her fiction. One can ask for no better guidebook. -M. Thomas Inge.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Eleanor Sontag
Henry 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…
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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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…
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…
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…
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,7, RWTH Aachen University (Institut fur Anglistik ), course: Readings…
Bernd Sontag
In den letzten Jahren haben sich diverse Stroemungen des strategischen Managements entwickelt, die, angefangen bei strategischen Erfolgsfaktoren uber eine Zusammenstellung als Denkschulen bis hin zu differenzierten Management Views reichen. Bernd…
E.D. Sontag
This book attempts to reconcile the analytic philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein with those issues that consumed his personal life and which lay outside the confines of analytic philosophy: his religious…
Richard Sontag
Katrin Sontag
Migration, mobility, and globalization are transforming ways of working and living. Business activities, relationships and a sense of belonging are often not tied to any one place. This book explores…
Adolphe Adam,Marie Aycard
Life of Henriette Sontag is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition . Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel…
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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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Susan Sontag’s Way We Live Now, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…