178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1990, this is the first book-length study of Susan Sontag: essayist and analyst if culture, author of ‘Notes on Camp’ and Illness as Metaphor , novelist, reviewer, and filmmaker. It was modernism, and the excitement it created in her, that "rescued" Sontag from childhood in Southern California and sent her abroad in the 1950s. Sohnya Sayres looks into the foundations and... Read more
Introduction; 1. Biographical Noyes 2. Key Terms 3. The Two Novels: The Benefactor and Death Kit 4. The Burden of the Aesthetic 5. Thought Commemorated; Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
Biography
Sohnya Sayres
