Research Catalog

Title

Essays of the 1960s & 70s / Susan Sontag ; David Rieff, editor.

Author

Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004

Publication

• New York, NY : Library of America, [2013]
• ©2013

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rieff, David
• Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004.

Description

viii, 875 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

With the publication of her first book, Against Interpretation, in 1966, Susan Sontag placed herself at the forefront of an era of cultural and political transformation. "What is important now," she wrote, "is to recover our senses ... In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art." She would remain a catalyzing presence, whether writing about camp sensibility, the films of Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais, her experiences as a traveler to Hanoi at the height of the Vietnam War, the aesthetics of science-fiction and pornography, or a range of modern thinkers from Simone Weil to E.M. Cioran. She opened dazzling new perspectives on any subject she addressed, whether the nature of photography or cultural attitudes toward illness. This volume, edited by Sontag's son David Rieff, presents the full texts of four essential books: Against Interpretation, Styles of Radical Will (1969), On Photography (1977), and Illness as Metaphor (1978). Also here as a special feature are six previously uncollected essays including studies of William S. Burroughs and the painter Francis Bacon and a series of reflections on beauty, aging, and the emerging feminist movement.

Series Statement

Library of America ; 246

Uniform Title

• Essays. Selections (Rieff : 2013)
• Library of America ; 246.

Alternative Title

• Essays.
• Essays of the 1960s and 1970s
• Susan Sontag, essays of the 1960s and 70s
• Sontag, essays of the 1960s & 70s

Subjects

• Criticism
• Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism
• Cancer in literature
• Tuberculosis in literature
• Aesthetics
• American essays
• Photography, Artistic

Genre/Form

American essays.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 825-852) and index.

Contents

Against interpretation and other essays (1966) -- Styles of radical will (1969) -- On photography (1977) -- Illness as metaphor (1978) -- Uncollected essays. William Burroughs and the novel -- The double standard of aging -- The third world of women -- Francis Bacon : About being in pain -- A woman's beauty : put-down or power source? -- Beauty : how will it change next?

Call Number

PS221

ISBN

• 9781598532555 (hardback)
• 1598532553 (hardback)

LCCN

2013930952

OCLC

830367647

Author

Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004, author.

Title

Essays of the 1960s & 70s / Susan Sontag ; David Rieff, editor.

Publisher

New York, NY : Library of America, [2013]

Copyright Date

©2013

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Library of America ; 246

Library of America ; 246.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 825-852) and index.

Added Author

Rieff, David, editor.

Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004. Against interpretation, and other essays.

Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004. Styles of radical will.

Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004. On photography.

Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004. Illness as metaphor.

Spine Title

Sontag, essays of the 1960s & 70s

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR PS221 .A4 v. 246